CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
Commentary Multiple COVID-19 waves have left in their wake compelling evidence of long overlooked gaps in pandemic readiness and responsiveness. The primary lesson for the US public health and healthcare...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...configurations that were and are common in the singing convention world that dominated southern gospel in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. But professional southern gospel has always...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...hastened neighborhood change. A number of scholars have criticized New Urbanism's complicity with capital in creating exclusionary spaces and "geographies of otherness," which reinforce or replicate spatial divisions.17K. Till, "Neotraditional...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Atlanta's history, politics, and the arts converge ... [They are] responsible for some of the most prominent aural and visual aesthetics that have come to define the South."1 Fahamu Pecou, phone...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...after securing his two-year-old son and running away from his master, to a free space, "those thick forests that seem to hold the new world in their arms" and living...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...enters a world of one-percenter bikers, dark roadhouses, and thickly masculine tropes—which is saying something given that True Detective is a show about men living in a brutally masculine world....
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...specifically reference the Pulse tragedy in my work with the number 49. A lot of my work features the multiplicity of that number. The blood slide pieces in What are...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...World in Vilas, North Carolina, frames Appalachia in ways that foreground nostalgia for an imagined simpler and remote American past (Figure 18). A closer look reveals the smartphone in the...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...Merchants relied on the river as a connector to one another and a link to the European world but experienced it only as infrequent, transitory visitors. In contrast to both...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Prelude: Fragments of Family This book is an essay on men’s existence in the South Asian domestic world, and on their self-contradictory articulation in that world of ideas of freedom,...