In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
..."there are several million ways to murder."1James Baldwin, "We Can Change the Country," in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings, ed. Randall Kenan (New York: Penguin Random House, 2010), 61....
Anniversary
Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...still wild yet don’t know enough to be scared so I never am that’s how I got these scars here. Anyway, I follow Sadie she’s about fifty and weighs five...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...is how most smuggling worked, and in many ways this is how it still works. Sometimes border people felt they should not have to pay extra for ordinary goods that...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...Mexico (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2006); Peter van Wyck, The Highway of the Atom (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2010). Beginning with Elaine Tyler May's Homeward Bound and Paul Boyer's...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...ways, but it was also often accomplished through overt tactics such as racially restrictive covenants that simply stated 'said property shall not be sold to nor occupied by Negroes, nor...
Roadside Architecture
...Mississippi and the states bordering it had, for me, been little more than places to drive through on the way to somewhere else. When the mid-South unexpectedly became my home,...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...and weekly practice offer immigrants "…a way to recreate social ties and generate narratives of self-worth despite structural challenges to individual and collective mobility." The cornerstone of the collusio—harnessing and...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...time "in France at the war" (244). In fact, his breakdown on the train to Jackson, which is "further away than crazy" (252), is not depicted, and it would be...