Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...of slavery in the United States, photography and film have articulated the overdetermined image and, eventual sound, of slavery within the imagination. In both “350,000” and “Evergreen,” Bey’s exclusion of...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...gross indecency" between men. In the United States, sodomy laws were on the books in every state. By Percy's death in 1942, these laws were still in place but a...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...of the Insane in the United States and Canada, vol. 1 (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1916). Courtesy of Internet Archives and Yale University. Gonaver's goal is to show...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...advocate for visibility and representation within the United States."16McNamara, 13. Like Márquez, she is attentive to the racial diversity of the population, writing that “U.S.-born Latinas and Latinos disavowed radical,...