In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...this map, click here. At the most distant zoom level, only Stevens mills with significant union action are labeled. The larger the marker the greater the number of employees and...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...from Chattanooga by Scottsboro, Alabama, through the Tennessee Valley to Memphis; from Memphis through the Marked Tree area where the tenant farmers union was active and on to Little Rock...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...flags in front.34See John Howard, Men Like That: A Queer Southern History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 78–125. As Howard's pathbreaking work reveals, LGBTQ+ people in Mississippi in the...
Gas station south of Memphis, Desoto County, Mississippi, 2006
Beale Street at night, Memphis, Tennessee, 2005
Funky graffiti art, Memphis, Tennessee, 2008
Trolley station, Memphis, Tennessee, 2005
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Delery-Edwards describes the Lounge as a cultural space that sought to insulate patrons from homophobic violence, what Vernon would imagine in a musical number, "The World Outside These Walls."11Max Vernon,...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...gay men in Cold War Mississippi engendered queer experience and space by remaining in a state of flux.58John Howard, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History (Chicago: University of Chicago...