Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...fragile and imperfect connections. The proliferation of LGBTQ+ dating and hook-up digital applications clarify and cloud, reveal and conceal, seeking transparency and enacting opacity—a glitch between the virtual and the...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...and similarly split districts in surrounding Davidson County, under Superintendent J. E. Moss. In round numbers, there were about ten thousand black students and twenty thousand whites in the city...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...and white children and the other primarily for lower-income and minority children. This seismic shift in how states fund K–12 education through universal vouchers isn’t confined to the South. But...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...to be kind of shitty and imperfect and evolving and in-process."73Vernon, interview by author. In fostering relationships across so many "evolving" and overlapping identities, generations, and performance subjectivities, Vernon challenges...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...the United States, they also maintained important links with family and community members back in Guatemala. They communicated with parents, wives, children, and siblings through phone and audio- and video-taped...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...Highway state and the road's southern destination. With the highway a key to south Florida's 1920s real estate and tourism boom (and with both state and private developers sponsoring other...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...to improve her health.2Available federal census information indicates that in 1930, Ishcomer was married and had a least one son. Her husband appears to have been a mill hand but...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...Appalachian culture—"an aesthetic that values the old and flawed and rusty." Robert Gipe and Ann Pancake, "Straddling Two Worlds," Appalachian Journal, 2011. Language and Regional Dialect ANN: When I first...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
J-Mill on Regulating
...style, and others are masters of blending records, the boys in Miami have developed a concept known as 'regulating' or 'mic checkin'.' The concept entails playing a record and 'pulling'...