"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...form of the installations, something akin but not limited to the post-minimalist school of sculptural thought. I don’t have a concrete or specific school of thought surrounding what I do...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...when an explosion tore through the school annex of Miami's Orthodox Temple Beth El. Such was the strength of the blast that local residents thought a plane crash had woken...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...to R.H. Fetz, April 27, 1951, Folder: T-47: Toxicology–Economic Poisons–Insecticides–Mrs. Plyler & Colson, Box 3, Record Group 26, Subgroup 4, Series 21, Georgia Archives. Field workers conduct a campaign of...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...Katrina Reveals," (paper presented at Social Science & Medicine, Gender & Health Special Issue Workshop: Relational, Biosocial, and Intersectional Approaches, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, 2010);...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...doubled, at once opening and closing, losing and then finding itself in its own cheap performance" (180). These kinds of juxtapositions are the crux of what Comentale identifies as "vernacular...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...are the huge numbers of young people who boycotted middle school and high school classes last year to speak out for the dangers to their immigrant parents. In the South,...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...changing race relations—including desegregation of schools and public facilities in the 1960s, the growing Civil Rights Movement (in large part spearheaded by Atlanta's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), and the...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...in Mississippi. Educated in the public schools of High Point, she graduated from the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (WCUNC), now the University of North Carolina at...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...family vacations included mandatory excursions to museums, libraries, and historical sites. To ensure that my little brother and I "enjoyed" cultural experiences of all stripes, we toured the Smithsonian in...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...is a member of Jemez Pueblo. Much of the early part of her career, after graduating from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1990, was in the...