“Honey, I guess you can sum up this business in one sentence,” stripper Bobbie Bruce told reporter Jack Griffin at Minsky’s Rialto Theater, a hub of early-1950s Chicago burlesque. “You grab as much sex as the law is allowing at the time, and throw it across the footlights as hard as you can.”1 In the […]
Archives for July 2018
“A New Life Awaits You . . .”: Alabama Tenants’ Counter-Narratives to Landlord Hype
When you look at apartment websites, you are always greeted with pictures of immaculate living rooms right out of “Good Housekeeping,” smiling middle-class families, sparkling swimming pools and accolades such as “exquisite apartment homes.” But beneath this carefully crafted veneer lies a different reality documented in reviews by actual Alabama tenants. Because Alabama law favors […]
Marx and Engels on Civil War: New Collection
Review by Marcelo Badaró Mattos The Civil War in the United States, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Edited by Andrew Zimmerman. New York: International Publishers, 2016. Paper, $14.00. Pp. 256. This book is the second American edition, largely modified, of a collection of Marx’s and Engels’ writings on the Civil War. The first edition, […]
Incident at Waffle House
On July 4th, I went to a local Waffle House with a Black friend. Our usual Waffle House that we hit up on University Drive was packed solid so we drove to one in Five Points, a mostly white area of east Huntsville. When we entered, there was only one booth that looked open so we […]