Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...way, and though he uses non-"ideal" sources such as "surveys, social networks, pornographic searches, and dating sites" to compile "evidence" on the "number of gay men" in this country, Stephens-Davidowitz...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...complex, paved roads, a freshwater pond created by excavation, and the present-day lighthouse, still used for guiding maritime traffic in Doboy Sound. Internal Waterway, Sapelo Island, Georgia, 2015. Screenshot courtesy...
Writing Appalachia
...need to have a representative selection of Appalachian texts in one book because we teach Appalachian literature and have wished for such a book. The problem is not that the...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...as Oxford College of Emory University—and directly past Bethlehem Baptist Church, the county's oldest African American house of worship. For two centuries the waterway has been a significant site of...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...own reckoning gave up US citizenship to become part of a rebel nation. These same white southerners are US citizens today only because their ancestors benefited from a general, generous amnesty...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...forests, with dune ridges showing places of sand accretion. 2:58 – The Sapelo Island Lighthouse is an example of a human landmark connecting the island with past shipping of agricultural...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...and treasure was something inside my house, something I could hold, like the silverware Mama kept in a leatherette case in the dining room. I was a white child of...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...inscape, or individuation, sounds so close to terror you'd confuse the two, as if the finest and the rarest blend would come with just a hint of fear or pain,...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Cherokee Chief, ca. 1866. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. Bottom, Seminary Hall, Northeastern State University, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, 2008. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user Caleb...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...an intellectual and political pitfall because it can obscure the fact that criminality itself is always politically and culturally constructed. See Paul Gootenberg, "Talking About the Flow: Drugs, Borders, and...