"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...see in the faces and bodies of our nearest neighbors the stories yet to be written, that we hear in their words, the voices all around us – on the...
In Memory Hill Cemetery
...Greek revival graves near the center toward the back of the cemetery, through the light skinned white-Blacks on the near side of the cemetery road, a carriage's width I must...
Putting up Beans
...filled with great leaves of tobacco, green as beans. Though soon to be gold and brown cured. Now nowhere near Winston or Salems. Not even close to American Spirit. More...
Birdhouses
...home visiting my family in South Carolina. Walking near a grapevine that my father had planted along a wire fence, I noticed that the vine's lush leaves had ensconced a...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...gay bar named La Paloma that was conducted by nearly two hundred members of the Ku Klux Klan. Rainbow art partition at the Queer Miami exhibition, Florida, 2019. Photograph by...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...as the instigator, is from the Owensboro (Ky.) Daily Inquirer, 21 Apr. 1911, 1. Owensboro is a small city located near Livermore, in the western region of the state. A...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...this catastrophic wound is still too fresh for words. But Shakbatina indicates, near the close of this passage, that the effort to silence and remove Choctaw children fails: Choctaws cannot...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
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The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...