No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...a cultural backlash against the political gains of African Americans, women, and Chicanos at the state and national level. Mellard's account does not consider how the performance of machismo can...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...October 15, 2008. New Orleans-based American Routes radio host Nick Spitzer refers to them as "conjuring a cross between the Vévé signs of voudun and a kind of military coroner's...
Birdhouses
Introduction When we examine a nest, we place ourselves at the origin of confidence in the world. —Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space1Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (New York:...
A Mess of Poke
...sallet ("salad"), grows natively with astonishing vigor across the American South. Despite what Tony Joe suggests, however, pokeweed is not an exclusively rural species, in "the woods and the fields."...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...of Freddie Styles, a Georgia-born African American man, John Q's first installation begins in front of a home in the Old Fourth Ward. In the early 1960s, Styles briefly belonged...
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...studies; critical regional studies; African American, Indigenous, and American studies; women's and gender studies; LGBTQ studies, public health; and social justice. A digital publication, Southern Spaces provides an open access...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...Gay American History, through the National Women's History Project, and in the published letters shared among nineteenth-century women. She also suggested that lesbian history is found in our families. "Write...
Zircon
...Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2013 he received the History Award Medal from the Daughters of the American Revolution. As a recipient of...