"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...there are Women's Studies, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/ Transgender Studies, and Creative Writing. She lives with her partner, transgender activist and writer Leslie Feinberg, in Jersey City, New Jersey. For many years when...
Negotiating Black Identities
...the Speaker Karyn Lacy is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Her areas of research include race and ethnicity, the sociology of culture, suburban sociology, and stratification....
Sea Changes in Personhood
...city Cap François on fire) provide a springboard for Allawaert to demonstrate that "Afro-American" cultural forms of production and expression—such as fetishes and vaudou, and "ecologically-inflected modes of personhood"—shaped the...
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
...August 23 to August 30, 2005, Hurricane Katrina stormed though New Orleans, causing the levees to break, devastating a large part of the Crescent City. To mark the seventh anniversary...
The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
...reelection campaign, because Charlotte is a city without unionized hotels in a state which has the lowest percentage of union members in the nation. As we continue to think about...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...She was Director of the Office of Human Services for the City of Atlanta from 1975 to 1990, and earned a Juris Doctor degree from the Woodrow Wilson College of...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...the secession crisis. An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies, Great Britain, August 28, 1833. Courtesy of the Freedom City virtual archive, Toronto Public Library. For...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...to consider includes (but is not limited to): Spaces and Identities​ Intersectionality, hybridity, identity: race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, regional identity, and class Migration narratives, globalization, queer diaspora, and spaces of...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...campus of a major university that pulls 60 percent of its student population from metro Atlanta, the most important city in the South. Three likely leaders of tomorrow." But I...