The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...less tied to place than the other whites in that tattoo parlor—that he is much more mobile culturally, economically, ideologically, and geographically. Reed's unmarked whiteness allows him to travel in...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...how many people really care . . . a lot of people came to my assistance, either prayed or personally wished me well or actively did something to help them...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...especially, of African Americans in the early twentieth century. In the late 1800s, a "colored" high school opened in LaFollette that served, at its peak, nearly one hundred African American...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...Abroad (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 259. is dedicated to the approximately 600 Swiss Guards who died while unsuccessfully defending the French royal family in August 1792, during the...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...election, novelist Colson Whitehead published a characteristically biting New York Times editorial entitled "The Year of Living Postracially": "One year ago today, we officially became a postracial society. Fifty-three percent of the voters opted...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...there were relatively few queer community studies of the early twentieth century, especially for locations in the US South. Miami's history differed greatly from cities we know much more about,...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...to communicate openly and honestly with one another, and without judgment."17 Steve Edwards, "Those 'Bitches' Need Love Too," NEWSWEST, February 19, 1976, Don Kelly Collection in Gay Literature and Culture,...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...depictions of Cajuns that preceded in fiction and film? Cajun children, 1940 Cajun proprietor of barroom, 1938 GAUTREAUX: I don't really think about it. I know that's probably not what...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...the Eastern Shore of Maryland was economically and demographically similar to Accomack on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, but blacks in Somerset were far more likely to be lynched or...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...the Okefenokee region, early singing schools occasionally were held in the Primitive Baptist churches (outside formal worship), but more frequently took place in rural country schools. David Lee holds a...