An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...It excludes the many immigrant groups that have made the South their home over the generations—Chinese, Lebanese, Italians, and more recently, Indians, Vietnamese, Africans, Hispanics. It ignores queer southern communities...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...to the nationally distributed gay homophile magazine ONE,29ONE Magazine, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, Los Angeles, 2018, https://one.usc.edu/archive-location/one-magazine. The magazine ONE was published in California from 1953 to 1967...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...Virginians.18Henry Box Brown, Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself (Manchester: Lee and Glynn, 1851), Documenting the American South, http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/brownbox/brownbox.html, 9, 44. Fluctuating spatial arrangements marked...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...fiction is not limited to the perspective of Acadian descendents—or southerners. The two main characters of his second novel, The Clearing, are from Pennsylvania. While the main characters of his...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...expressed their displeasure in public to leave the impression that they spoke for a majority. Those who favored desegregation, white and black alike, were less vocal, making their numbers appear...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...the most brilliantly executed, musical examinations of the Global South, From South Africa to South Carolina, Scott-Heron traversed the African diaspora, exploring shared rhythms and politic stretching from Barnwell, South...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Austin Now, KLRU, http://www.klru.org/austinnow/archives/gentrification/index.php, accessed August 31, 2011; Ben Wash, interview with the author, March 30, 2007; "Ben's Long Branch Bar-B-Q," Southern Foodways Alliance Southern BBQ Trail, http://www.southernfoodways.org/interview/bens-long-branch-bar-b-q/, accessed August...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...the daily-pay marketplace, day laborers' individual and collective workaday lives were sometimes marked by trauma and despair, particularly for African American men. Discrimination and stereotyping had a caustic effect on...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...1988), 31. The majority of South Asians live in Atlanta's white north suburbs, where African American Muslims have begun to move only since the 1990s. The major South Asian mosque...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...their roles perfectly, neatly reaffirming an untroubled whiteness that Letcher and his southern crew are searching for. Mandeville Thum, William the guide, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, 1876–1877. Mandeville Thum, Mat, the...