The Place of Appalachia
Essay How might spatial theory help us understand the political significance and potential of the diverse, place-based struggles documented in Transforming Places? First, place matters in the pursuit of social...
"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,...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...of the Great Depression—just as the PHS dismantled a number of pilot projects designed to provide mass treatment to syphilitic blacks. Although many of the initiatives undertaken in Hot Springs...
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...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...Georges is the product of a rape. His father is his white master Alfred, and his mother Laïsa is a young Senegalese woman whom Alfred purchases at a slave auction...
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...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...including population decline and reduced economic opportunities. City seal, Eatonville, Florida, 1999. Photograph by Tina Bucuvalas. Courtesy of the State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Eatonville, Florida, also founded by...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...the Louisiana Purchase unleashed a flood of speculation regarding whether US stewardship of the Purchase territory could lead to the realization of the biblical "land of milk and honey." According...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...With outside financial and political support, the Delmo residents successfully purchased all but one of the settlements for $285,000. The purchase included houses, lots, household furnishings, community buildings, and roads...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...Island People feels more invested in specificities of place and practice than theories or philosophies. "The abstraction was also a place," he writes (335), and "This book ponders not merely...