Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...also know the frayed and often misremembered history of AIDS stigma.4For more on AIDS and memory, see Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...back to it repeatedly."18Magee and Morrisey. Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the listening...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
The Dispossession What happened in rural America during the quarter century after 1950 has been eclipsed by the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and growing...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...sit-ins and commercial-bus freedom rides of 1960–1961. In later years, Campbell spoke eloquently against the Vietnam War, capital punishment, unregulated guns, overbearing government power, abortion on demand, and the invasion...
Encountering COVID
...person and I got in the groove. What sustained me was how surprised I was every single time I got to listen to somebody else. I mean, there were genuine...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...bought a Washington, D.C factory that made hardwood flooring and cabinets for the housing boom of the 1880s. As a Gilded Age industrialist, Jackson expanded his lumber business through consolidation...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...a growing interest not just in maintaining existing theaters, but in constructing new ones.7"Drive-in Theater Search," Drive-ins.com, http://drive-ins.com/srchdest.htm?name=&city=&code=al&status_op=open&search.x=13&search.y=12. Six of Alabama's ten drive-ins opened since 1996.8Calvin R. Trice, "Couple seek...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...American Revolution recast as a socialist revolt, freeing the young workers of Okemah, Oklahoma, from the tyranny of a ten-year-old King George. These exaggerated exploits not only further Guthrie's socialist...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...in a mode promoting social justice and change for all LGBTQ+ people. My wrist might not be ‘stiff’ in the way my dad intended, but I think my artistic mission...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...a white majority, using this bit of evidence: "I see whites, blacks, Vietnamese, Hispanics, and every other color on my street every day. We live in a community of many...