New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...the mundane, and found ourselves in the back of a fast food restaurant drinking Coors Light from bottles, chalking cues where we were the only customers. We ate crawfish among...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...in Atlanta, Jeff Drew's father, John (1908–1991), co-founded the Alexander Insurance Agency with the mission of providing affordable insurance to Black customers. While a Morehouse student, John Drew met Alfred...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...public schools. These families can use the funds to send their children to almost any K–12 private school, including home-schooling, or purchase a wide range of educational materials and services,...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...in the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina" (FEMA Caption). Structures marked with KEN were specifically searched for bodies by Kenyon International Emergency Services, a Texas company that provided mobile...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...at the mouth, Bayboro Harbor, just south of the city's previously moribund but now skyrocketing downtown. As one journeys southwest, going upstream, the creek services a working port (properties now...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...hesitancy, racial inequities in distribution, and state and local disparities in healthcare funding and facilities, continued to impede vaccine delivery as first the Delta variant and then Omicron took their...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Thursday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced that it "will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days...
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...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...people, and ugly structures, all lumped together as blight. Urban boutique replaces existing stores and services that cater to poorer consumers—which encourages them to move.22For a recent analysis of "boutiquing"...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...presence of endemic yellow fever was sufficient to designate a place as tropical and, therefore, ungesund. Following his service as a Prussian artillery lieutenant in the Napoleonic Wars, Johan Valentin...