The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...and implicit in that answer is the assertion that a writer such as Nordan is not simply mimicking a curious literary trick or appropriating a style that he found appealing....
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...I sketch four real historical bars that Weathers frequented: The Acme, Fernando's Hideaway, The Country, and Mary Ellen's Top Hat. I approach "Cheers" as a historical document that records how...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
...American Indian Literary Nationalism (2007) and Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective (2008). At the time of this lecture, Prof. Womack taught Native American literatures and gay and lesbian literatures...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...built company towns that provided workers with double-edged benefits: rental housing that was close to the mill or factory but tightly regulated, and a tightly knit community that kept outsiders...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...meaning making is a convoluted process. Is that what you were envisioning for these two works? Lawson: That’s exactly how I imagined the pieces would be interpreted. Art and religion...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...there are stories that have been underreported in the press that we should focus on with their expertise." Hatfield says although Emory publishes the site, it's the cooperative nature of...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...but airing images of youth music culture was a complicated proposition that involved television technologies, network affiliations, marketing, and racial segregation. This essay examines four programs that brought music and...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...mean, however, that the knowledge that peasants had gained about hookworm was not accepted or widely disseminated. Like that of any other process encouraging people to initiate or change behavior,...
Good-Bye to All That?
...reluctantly come to believe that it's what most people want, or if that's not what they want, it's not very important to resist. I can understand the feeling. Watching Dancing...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...ties that connected indigenous hometowns in Guatemala with their new places of settlement in the US South. The text and video that follow explore the hopes and dreams they carried...