Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...of slavery in the United States, photography and film have articulated the overdetermined image and, eventual sound, of slavery within the imagination. In both “350,000” and “Evergreen,” Bey’s exclusion of...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...gross indecency" between men. In the United States, sodomy laws were on the books in every state. By Percy's death in 1942, these laws were still in place but a...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...advocate for visibility and representation within the United States."16McNamara, 13. Like Márquez, she is attentive to the racial diversity of the population, writing that “U.S.-born Latinas and Latinos disavowed radical,...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...Since the 1970s, queer history projects have flourished across the United States. New archives are forged from the remains stowed away in activists' attics and closets. Oral history collections are...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...of his professional life teaching and writing about race and political thought in the United States, Reed has uplifted the importance of class in understanding the dynamics of racial disparities...