Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...UMWA miner, 48, lost his job and then his house. He now sleeps in his local union hall. Cannelton, WV, 2005. Changes in healthcare: The whole healthcare system has changed...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
Review Any historical account requires a framing device—temporal, thematic, or geographical—establishing the scope of enquiry. A Caribbean history typically invokes fairly settled geographical parameters that delimit the area to insular...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...was a boy, lost and found. The river found him, and then he returned and found it. First there was a language to learn that had not been his own....
Besieged Terrain
...diseases, as well as a higher rate of birth defects. Despite this, the Kentucky state government and much of the populace support strip mining and MTR. In his 2011 State...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...consider a "totality of circumstances" in Section 2 cases:2The order in which Justice Alito listed his "guideposts" has been slightly altered here. I list his third item second for purposes...
Genres of Southern Literature
...based on a selection of key genres departs substantially from the program of traditional literary histories, which rely upon relatively static, periodic, historical reference points to arrange and provide nomenclatures...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...His Head": Slavery and the Texas-Mexico Border, 1810–1860," Journal of Social History 37, No. 3 (Spring 2004): 709–723. While employment by white colonists—often former slave owners—brought an unspecified number of...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...sense of the visual chaos and devastation. His focus eventually became the character of the people who had survived this experience. http://www.stewartharveyphoto.com Herbert H. Hill, Pullman, Washington. Chemistry professor, Washington...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...any white persons because his middle-class father taught at the local historically Black college and his parents kept him close to home near the campus. Black families deployed a variety...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...the truth about his approach to treatment, which was highly aggressive, using all means of restraint at his disposal, and in a style of prose that his northern colleagues found...