Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...(2020)—directly references the "square spaces" of mobile gay social networking. Indeed the "phone app" of Smith's poem, "a note on the phone app that tells me how far i am...
"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,...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...the guitar, Washington, DC, January 15, 2008. Photograph by Flickr user Georgetown Voice. Courtsey of Georgetown Voice, Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0. Big Freedia at Bootleg Theater, Los Angeles,...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...in the South. Adding to this complexity is the uneven temporal and spatial dispersion of Latinos. Certain southern states, most notably Texas and Florida, have a longstanding Latino presence and...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...composite narrative based on this interview and an unrecorded interview with the author on 10 September 2003. Additional Castillo quotes in this essay are composites from these interviews. On the...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...who largely avoided Jimmy's room and failed to convince his mother (over the phone) to come to visit her dying son, Ruth returned to Jimmy's room. And it was as...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Red Cob, in addition to several popcorn varieties, such as Strawberry and Indian. I have documented many additional varieties that families name after a specific person, such as Ted Horton...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...Possibility proved more addictive than the beer everyone drank and the drugs many people took. Local musicians gather in downtown Athens, Georgia, 1982. Photograph by Jay Thomas. © Jay Thomas....