Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...the Future of Urban Cultures (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), and recently published "'What’s Good for Boyle Heights is Good for the Jews': Creating Multiracialism on the Eastside During the...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...subsistence and architectural strategies of their Euro-American neighbors in the Southeast. The first Europeans in the Ozarks were French creoles, who almost exclusively exploited the mineral resources and fur-bearing animals. ...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...and attained its current form during the final cycle of the latest glaciation. The eastern edge of the Delta contributes to the section's eastern boundary with the Section 2215, "Oak-Hickory...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...even while dealing with her own personal and financial hardships. Even so, the places she constructs in her fiction, at least in her later work, are spaces of whiteness and...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...public and semi-public spaces as at least temporarily queer(ed) territory. This marking is how cruising functions not only as a social practice but also as a concept. Through documenting the...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...of photographs we think we know. Born on a farm in south central Mississippi, O. N. Pruitt came of age while Eastman Kodak was popularizing photography. The introduction of affordable...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...Eastern Branch in the District of Columbia, in present day Anacostia, age forty-two, born in Maryland around 1821. The 1870 census shows William and Bridget Tinney living east of Seventh...
Encountering COVID
...family he is brain dead, which he's not." When I woke up, I asked my wife when was Easter, and she said, "Boy, Easter been gone." And I say, "Where...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Lounge Fire Killed 32 People. Its Legacy Still Haunts Black Gay New Orleans," The Daily Beast, May 13, 2019, https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-upstairs-lounge-fire-killed-32-people-its-legacy-still-haunts-black-gay-ne. Gay communities are hardly immune to the racism and sexism...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...Florida, 1939. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. If the trope of the mule recurs in Hurston's literary and ethnographic writing most famously as a feminized beast of burden, in...