"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...1916. Photograph by Bain News Service. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection [LC-B2-650-15], loc.gov/pictures/item/2014683112/. Markets for the opossum expanded to northern cities in...
August, 1959: Morning Service
Beside the open window on the cemetery side, I drowsed as Preacher Lusk gripped his Bible like a bat snagged from the pentecostal gloom. In that room where heat clabbered...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...companies—food services, janitorial services, book stores. Corporations like Sodexho-Marriott that provide those food services to schools are also making money off running for-profit private prisons, at the very moment that...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
Series editor: Mary E. Frederickson, Emory University. Submission deadline: March 31, 2015. Questions: Contact managing editor Jesse P. Karlsberg. From Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci, "The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...Native authors who have embraced forms of tribalism which, she argues, ignore the realities of the interdependencies of centuries of colonial contact. Pulitano’s claims, built on a wealth of analysis...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...of collective identities in the service of an ethical politics, see Critchley, Infinitely Demanding. I have especially learned from David Whisnant's "Developments in the Appalachian Identity Movement," which though published...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...went into arms and by mid-March 2021, a quarter of the population had received at least one vaccine; six months later that number rose to 85 percent. Although Black Democrats...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...that leads to the arrest and prosecution of the killers. If you have information of the lynchings, please contact: The GBI – 404-244-2600 or the FBI – 404-679-9000. For more...
The Black Belt
...Alabama constitution, concluded historian Wayne Flynt, would keep Alabama "throughout the twentieth century at or near the bottom among all states in . . . property taxes, public services, and...