"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...when referencing patrons of these bars because Weathers specified that lesbian was not used in the gay San Antonio scene when she was there. Brenda Weathers with friends (left to...
The Border South
...free black Americans in the South. Over 55,000 blacks in Virginia were free in 1860, over 80,000 in Maryland, including over 25,000 in the city of Baltimore. Most free blacks...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...life. On the banks of the Mississippi between Coahoma and Sunflower counties, sits Bolivar County and the city of Mound Bayou. Founded in 1887 near Chickasaw burial grounds by a...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...including the Chicago Defender, Jet, and Afro World. In the 1960s, SNCC used the photograph on posters to promote voting rights in Mississippi. More recently, it was used in the...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...however, a permanent photography staff was expensive and unnecessary; they continued to use local firms like the Burgert Brothers. As a result, the archives of these firms are unique documents...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...most pronounced dividing line between North and South, and between freedom and slavery. It was, in fact, the nation's only physical boundary separating free from slave states. Matthew Salafia constructs...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...to William Faulkner, and not because the songwriters in the band and the author of Absalom, Absalom hailed from Deep South places, but because both of them, in social science...
Cajun South Louisiana
...speakers as English among Louisianas free population; by 1860, 70 percent of Louisianas free population spoke English. 1800s Language change was part of a broader process of Acadian acceptance of...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...the cabin and puts a bullet through the handcuffed man's skull. Because the show had thus far split the narrative between 1995 and 2012, this scene is thick with dramatic...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...uncovering the lawsuits they had brought against the Jesuits and other prominent Maryland slaveholders long before the 1838 sale. Some won their freedom. Others didn't—but each of their cases challenged...