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Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida

Panel from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Photograph courtesy of the author, June 23, 2016. Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle...

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

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Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980

Introduction What role does cruising play in marking specific areas of the urban landscape as "queer territory"?1For the purposes of this essay, I use the word "queer" primarily in its...

Congregation

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Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020

Blog Post Camille Goldmon, editorial associate: I'm rereading Patricia Sullivan's Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. It's a monograph on liberal New Dealers and their...

When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras

While I was an undergraduate at Temple University in the mid-1990s, gospel's ubiquity in both secular and sacred spaces was a source of great fascination for me. On a Saturday...

Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves

Water Graves investigates how contemporary writers and artists of the greater Caribbean (such as Jason deCaires Taylor) reinvest sites of racialized violence and environmental degradation—as so many manifestations of "unritual"—with...

Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South

Christina Sharpe, scholar of English literature and Black studies, articulates the concept of "the wake" as a way of thinking about the long term impact of slavery upon African American...

En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo

Introducción El dramaturgo Abel González Melo nació en 1980 en La Habana, Cuba, mismo año en que el Exodo del Mariel vio a aproximadamente 125,000 personas huir de su país, un evento que dramatiza...

References
1.	Voting Rights Act Extension, Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, Unites States Senate, on S. 1992, 97th Congress, May 25, 1982, 67.
2.	The order in which Justice Alito listed his "guideposts" has been slightly altered here. I list his third item second for purposes of analysis.
3.	See Hearings before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives, on H.R. 1407, H.R. 1731, H.R. 2942, H.R. 3112, H.R. 3198, H.R. 3473, and H.R. 3948, 97th Congress, May 6, 7, 13, 19, 20, 27, 28; and June 3, 1981; Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Judiciary Committee, United States Senate, 97th Congress, on S. 1992, April 1982.
4.	The legislative history does make it plain that the "result" test has limits. It does not guarantee a right to proportional representation.
5.	Nicholas Stephanopoulos, "The Supreme Court Showcased its 'Textualist' Double Standard on Voting Rights," Washington Post, July 1, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/01/supreme-court-alito-voting-rights-act/.
6.	Nicholas Stephanopoulos, "The Supreme Court Showcased its 'Textualist' Double Standard on Voting Rights," Washington Post, July 1, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/01/supreme-court-alito-voting-rights-act/.
7.	Report of the President's Commission on Registration and Voting, Washington, DC, 1963, 13–14, 65.
8.	Hearings before the Subcommittee Number 5 of the Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, on H.R. 6400, March 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, and April 1, 1965; "Tan Voters Underwent Hardships: Many Waited In Lines for Hours; Some Didn't Wait," New Journal and Guide, May 14, 1966, 9; Francis X. Walter, "The May 3rd Primary In Alabama," Selma Inter-Religious Project Newsletter, May 16, 1966.
9.	Regrettably, in referring to the origins of the Voting Rights Act, Justice Kegan's dissent suggests she knows law better than history. She mentions "a march from Selma to Birmingham." It was in fact the Selma to Montgomery march that made voting rights history.
10.	Steve Suitts, "States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act," Southern Spaces, August 29, 2013, https://southernspaces.org/2013/states-rights-resurgent-attack-voting-rights-act.
11.	Laughlin McDonald, "The 1982 Amendments of Section 2 and Minority Representation," in Controversies in Minority Voting, ed. Bernard Grofman and Chandler Davidson (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1992), 70. Also see Drew Days, "How the Voting Rights Act is the Most Effective Act on the Books," Southern Changes 4, no. 1 (1981): 16, 25–27, http://southernchanges.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/sc04-1_1204/sc04-1_004/.

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