Roger Conway freely describes himself as an “old white guy,” so it’s a little odd to hear him drop terms like “playa hata” in casual conversation. Yet 17 students who signed up for a class at Southern ...

In grad school, back in the postmodernism-soaked ’90s, floating signifiers had a moment. The idea behind a floating signifier is that it’s a reference that has broken free of its referent and taken on ...