COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...during the presidency of Donald Trump, who consistently endorsed racist policies and spewed racist rhetoric.2Karen Grigsby Bates, "Is Trump Really That Racist?" NPR, October 21, 2020, https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/925385389/is-trump-really-that-racist. While the public...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...and McLane note, "The dramatis personae of the Flaherty films are the nuclear family structured along conventional lines."7Jack C. Ellis and Betsy A. McLane, A New History of Documentary Film, (NY:...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...and Joanie Greve, “Koch network laying groundwork to fundamentally transform America’s education system,” Washington Post, Jan. 20, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/01/30/daily-202-koch-network-laying-groundwork-to-fundamentally-transform-america-s-education-system/5a6feb8530fb041c3c7d74db/. Consider the voucher advocates who believe in economist Milton Freidman’s vision...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...film and record separately, which occasionally created a feeling of artificiality for him and, especially, for Roscoe Halcomb. When Cohen first arrived at Halcomb's house, he recorded "Across the Rocky...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...insiders to recognize and respond rapidly in early 2020 to signals of the brewing COVID-19 calamity. CDC's performance leaves little doubt that the agency was ill-prepared for the pandemic and made...
Encountering COVID
...leaned into heavily was the performing arts because they rely on a live audience. And other vocations that really had a hard time. I overloaded those a bit because they...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...voluntarily comply with allotment. The southeastern tribes were against allotment and especially against the dissolution of tribal government that was part of the process. The US federal policy idea behind...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...on. It bears multiple viewings. There are more things you can find, not only related to the South but to global capitals' mediation of "Southernness," especially Londoners, especially film and...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...until their commercial appeal declined precipitously.85Fruitema and Zoetmulder, The Panorama Phenomenon, 28. The mammoth canvases were particularly vulnerable to rapidly increasing competition from motion pictures. Movies were more easily distributed...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...seems relatively trouble-free as nearly as I can tell from my somewhat aloof perch (I don't patronize bars or attend parties or socialize much). A newly opened bar a few...