The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...of the makeshift agricultural economy as a household mode of production. Although he acknowledges that the agrarian household was a "coercive institution" (216), what he means by that is the...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...Moonlight, what is unsaid, what is invisible, is represented as equal in power to what is said and shown. Reading for the beneath raises ethical questions: Why do we need...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...death. Climate change generates public health threats that include natural disasters and the creation of warm, virus-nurturing environments that promote chikungunya, dengue fever, ebola, and zika—diseases that call to mind the...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...that Petrie could analyze samples of soil from her property, so that she could prove, once and for all, what had been sprayed on it—and what was making her sick....
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...to appreciate smelly old books, discolored newspapers, and indecipherable manuscripts. I blame my parents—after all, they planted the seed that is now blossoming into full-blown archive fever. #DareToBe promotional materials,...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...Donnelley Foundation, LDHI launched in 2014 as a collaborative project that enables archivists, museum professionals, and scholars from various partner institutions to translate archival materials, historic landscapes and structures, and...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...Art in 2010 and includes over fifty photographic portraits and audio interviews with New Orleans rappers, DJs, producers, photographers, label owners, promoters, record store personnel, journalists, and other parties involved...
Local Color
...brand of diversity by depicting attractive communities that could access cross-regional agreements about values that defused troubling surface differences. The popularity of local color fiction after the Civil War has...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...that wanted to receive federal funds, but lacked other provisions that would have allowed it more fully to support efforts like the Dixie Highway. Ingram presents World War I as...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...of a national network of what anthropologist St. Clair Drake used to call the "vindicationist school" of black intellectuals. Responding to what I have called the reigning unwisdom of the...