Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...indignity for old or young. "Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till," Reed writes, "was murdered in nearby Mississippi on a family visit from Chicago in 1955 because he unknowingly violated a local rule...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...local representatives that the messages in mainstream Bengali were not effectively reaching the people. Here, the Chatgaya/Chittaingya dialect is the primary oral language. Subsequently, the Cox's Bazar project engaged a...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...exactly where I was standing when it all sunk in. I was photographing in Mississippi in early March 2020, on spring break from teaching at Duke, my near annual pilgrimage...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...and courtesy of Eric Solomon. We are especially interested in individual experiences of Covid that address larger societal questions both in the US and globally, such as: How are individual...
Artist Repertoire Index
This list represents the songs George Mitchell recorded in the Lower Chattahoochee region between 1969 and 1982. Bailey, Golden (1976) The Buck The Dog John Henry Sally Got the...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...experiences of the Trail of Tears. His inability to anchor consistently his interpretation in indigenous concepts of flow and propriety fails to clarify how understanding their expulsion can be usefully explored...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...One Human Family sign, Key West, Florida, December 18, 2012. Photograph courtesy of Flickr users Ed and Eddie. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. One Human Family mosaic, Key West,...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...peasants were "hopelessly ignorant," with weak "bodily structures and facial expressions." The author feared that freed from the restraints of hookworm disease, and without the necessary political education to adequately...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...to listen to the work and let the [objects] share what they are willing. For example, the passbook is very delicate and this was the only page that would naturally...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...main substance of the book: people. Misrach's photos are oddly devoid of human life. People are seldom his subjects, appearing in only three of the pictures in the book (only...