The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...like Bibb to the west. I'm at a Best Western just off the exit ramp, behind a Waffle House."8Brian Reed, "Chapter I: If You Keep Your Mouth Shut, You'll Be...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...New Orleans, Louisiana, 1910. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-det-4a19873. "I Just Liked to Be in that Number": The Longshoremen Remember The transformative impact of...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...particular place can only produce a limited number of marketable artists) and, to a lesser degree, speculative exploration (that going to obscure places might yield a novel interpretation of the...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...jobs where I've just pushed a broom all day. All day long eight hours just pushin' a broom. Physically exhausting, emotionally exhausting. Most of it is construction [work]. But there's...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...just an appositive for "Grindr is Good," with both "Gay" and "Grindr" standing for gay white masculine-presenting cisgender man? Isn't the Mask still Masc? This too-brief history gets us to...
Religion and the US South
...provided justification for the wealthy to profit from economic development, but it also gave meaning to those bearing the burdens of economic change without proper recompense. Throughout such changes, religious...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...admirers appreciate its value and interest. At one point just past the middle of her career she pulled together a collection of relatively short pieces of hers about the United...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...he got it. He musta got it out there on the creek someplace. He just got through playin "Lost Creek." . . . Those of you who just tuned in,...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...Books. These "sister" organizations live and work symbiotically, with Charis Circle hosting book groups, writing groups, and author readings, as well as an ever-increasing number of social justice programs focusing...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...and "Loony Liberals."24Thom Goolsby, "Moron Monday shows radical Left just doesn't get it," Chatham Journal, June 7, 2013, http://www.chathamjournal.com/weekly/opinion/myopinion/moron-monday-shows-radical-left-just-does-not-get-it-130607.shtml. Despite assertions from the right that protestors were "outsiders" from other...