Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...(New York: Routledge, 1993): 467–476. Proximity to specifically queer-centered businesses also enabled many cruising areas, albeit in flexible ways. The policed street scene outside a new bar described by the...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...migrants is part of what demographers are calling the New Great Migration,15Dan Bilefsky, "For New Life, Blacks in City Head to South," New York Times, June 22, 2011, A1, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/nyregion/many-black-new-yorkers-are-moving-to-the-south.html;...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...South more generally. At USC, our new department of American Studies and Ethnicity, and specifically our new research institute, the Center for Diversity and Democracy, has decided to take up...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...White World-Supremacy (New York: Scribner, 1920), 252. These fears provoked by eugenicists, coupled with anti-immigration sentiments among residents on the East and West Coasts, contributed to the passage of the...
Religion and the US South
...of new Presbyterian and Baptist congregations, as well as a new presence of Quakers, Lutherans, German Reformed Methodists, and pietistic Protestant sects. All of these new religious influences appealed to...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...Johnson, and Brian J. Gilley (New York: NYU Press, 2016), 329, 331. Frank Thompson and friend at Stauch Bath House, Coney Island, New York City, New York, 1940–1953. Courtesy of...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...North, New York Times, September 3, 1864. Northern Civil War commanders made the capture of Confederate cities—specifically Atlanta and Richmond—and the crippling or destroying of the armies defending them, the major...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...1981);Young'uns: A Celebration (New York: Harper & Row, 1982); her memoir, Turned Funny; six mysteries, The Malignant Heart (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958), Ah, Sweet Mystery: A Kate Mulcay Mystery (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), Straight as an...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
Introduction During the antebellum era, New Orleans became the second largest port of US immigration after New York City, leading hundreds of thousands of Germans to begin new lives at...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...Noted," New Yorker (30 June 2003): 101; "PW Forecasts: Fiction," Publishers Weekly (26 May 2003): 49. His growing reputation is reflected in the larger number of reviews of this novel in a broader spectrum...