"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Delery-Edwards describes the Lounge as a cultural space that sought to insulate patrons from homophobic violence, what Vernon would imagine in a musical number, "The World Outside These Walls."11Max Vernon,...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
"TWUA" cheerleaders featured in Gloria Steinem's PBS series Woman Alive!, 1973–1974. In the spring of 1974, a dozen white and African American women and their daughters gathered outside the office...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...were living in a changed and changing world, yet the adults around us seemed to be in denial, clinging to old ideas about life and work and community. The most...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...South.'" Native southern ground is not lost (or preliterate) ground, not simply a mistily nostalgic pre-southern place, situated in some other culture's bracingly chronological order and largely defined against the...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...C. Robbins, "Cultural Conservation of Medicinal Plant Use in the Ozarks," Human Organization 58(1)(1999), 67-72. Poke’s early spring shoots are considered an invaluable spring tonic.64Holssinger, Wild Greens, 58. McNeil, An...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Texas Press, 2010). Barton Springs Historic Plaque (top) in Zilker Metropolitan Park, Austin, Texas, March 16, 2009. Barton Springs Pool, an important leisure site located in Zilker Metropolitan Park, Austin,...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...California, January 26, 2012. Photograph by Flickr user Mikey Walley. Courtesy of Mikey Wally, Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0. New Orleans rap is everywhere and nowhere. Lil Wayne reigns as...
The Liminal Site
...purchased the steepest section, a strip about two hundred feet wide, less because of civic foresight than because real estate developers couldn't use it. Fortuitously, that strip is today poised...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...are more often than not organized around watersheds and have nonrigid boundaries that differ from political borders like those around counties or nations. After only a few months in Port...