CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...premium on learning from each event and applying take-away lessons in a thoroughgoing way. What's ahead epidemiologically can surpass what's happened already in terms of complexity and magnitude, and that...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
I walk red roads, unpaved, blowing away, kicking leeched-dry clay. August. Near a lake fenced with chain link, red brick walls of the cotton mill shine in mid-morning Southern sun....
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...than living Black people. In several states polling officials were all white, and ballots were numbered in such a way as to permit white officials to know how Black voters...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...demeanor of Parks's subjects belies the injustice of the "separate but unequal"1Charlayne Hunter-Gault, "Doing the Best We Could with What We Had," in Gordon Parks: Segregation Story (Göttingen, Germany: Steidl,...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...And in many of my photographs, you'll see very little other than dead trees and palms that are on their way out. The eelgrass and other grasses are very delicate...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
I-26, Corridor of Change
Introduction Highway Construction on I-26, Buckner Gap, North Carolina. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. "Good roads take people both ways," said a Madison County resident, anticipating the completion of I-26...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...and to draw some parallels with 1980s black women artists is also to acknowledge–at best–indifference, alongside a lack of infrastructural support, issues of skills and knowledge gaps, and a commensurate...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...a spring but sink into which trees and highway, bank and fields are sipped away to minuteness. All split on the present then merge in stretched perspective, radiant in reverse,...