Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...A Southern Queer History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 14. He argues that "in Mississippi, spatial configurations—the unique characteristics of a rural landscape—forged distinct human interactions, movements, and sites,"...
Editorial Style Guide
...appears in running text as a noun. Reserve the abbreviation US when it is used adjectivally. US Supreme Court He is a resident of the United States. States: In running...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...New South Mary E. Frederickson, Quality control, Margilan, Uzbekistan, 2006. Industrial advertising campaigns like those run in Fortune in 1938 or on the Huadu website in 2008 are written in...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...and constructed over the airwaves an idealized aural representation of a southern Appalachian small town's culture. Rural Radio The introduction of radio into the rural United States in the 1920s...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
Essay At historical plantation sites, where the subject of slavery is difficult to avoid, Park Service interpreters struggle to present the subject in the least offensive manner. Interpreters at Arlington...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...the Vévé signs of voudun and a kind of military coroner's occupation.”7Spitzer, Nick. E-mail correspondence, June 16, 2009. “Now each house bore runic signs in orange spray paint. . .”8Piazza,...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
Review Water Graves investigates how contemporary writers and artists of the greater Caribbean (such as Jason deCaires Taylor) reinvest sites of racialized violence and environmental degradation—as so many manifestations of...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
..."Texas Almanac: City Population History from 1850–2000," Texas Almanac, accessed April 5, 2019, https://texasalmanac.com/sites/default/files/images/CityPopHist%20web.pdf. These mobilizations, according to scholars such as John D'Emilio, Allan Bérubé, and George Chauncey, were part...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...but the small-town, rural South was the site and subject of their most recognized work. The vivid immediacy of their photographs—and their ubiquity in magazines, books, and exhibits—has made it...