The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...9, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/was-the-art-of-s-town-worth-the-pain/522366/; Aja Romano, "S-Town is a stunning podcast. It probably shouldn't have been made," Vox, April 1, 2017, https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/30/15084224/s-town-review-controversial-podcast-privacy. Around the same time that plans for a movie...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...remained imprisoned. The family’s income was left to my grandmother and father. For the following six months, my father’s job was driving people around the city on a cyclo, a...
The Shenandoah Valley
...around 25 percent of the total population enslaved. There was significant sub-regional variation in the spread of slavery across the Valley; in Clarke County, for example, nearly half of the...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...of Ozarkers engaged in agrobiodiverse farming and gardening at the beginning of the twenty-first century is likely around ten percent, if not less, and these are spread throughout the region. As...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...a time, just looked at one another and down at the ground. Jane felt there was surely something hanging in the oppressive air. It did not seem to be rain,...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...only demographic shift in Atlanta: From 1980 to 2000, in-migrants from the U.S. and refugees from around the world also settled here. During this period, Atlanta's population grew from two...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...our bones but as a space that we can enter into, encounter, move around in, inhabit, be safe in, learn from." Kun, Audiotopia, 2. "If my own feelings are constantly...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...island with two histories, one around plantations and another one, beyond, Juan Pérez de la Riva, El barracón: esclavitud y capitalismo en Cuba (Barcelona: Editorial Crítica, 1978), 169–179. This model,...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...around Columbus. On weekends, he and his wife Cathy drove within a fifty-mile radius, and, to their great delight, learned that the area was filled with exceptional blues players. "Every...