You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...The Unexpected Impact of Welfare Reform on Older Women in Rural Communities," Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 35, no. 3 (2008): 153–171. Health clinics, legal aid services, and local...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...For example, medical and funeral providers have the legal right to deny care and service to LGBTQ individuals even as such a denial violates the Hippocratic Oath and similar ethical...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Louis Armstrong and known as the "colored red-light district."91The adjacent South Rampart Street corridor also had many African American businesses. See "Jazz Neighborhoods—New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park (U.S. National...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...but also the strange phenomenon that the Chinese all looked alike to him. "All their garments look as if they were made after the same pattern out of the same...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
Review Whenever the concepts of diaspora and indigeneity come together, scholars tend to ascribe oppositional power to them. Diaspora implies transnational if not global movement, displacement, and attenuation while indigeneity...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...from nearly every one. While the National Park Service had an official nondiscrimination policy, typical of New Deal federal agencies it worked hard to avoid interfering with "local customs." As...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...history of the sack demonstrates how, in the face of structural forces that systematically alienated property from enslaved and liberated people of color, a single material object was inherited, preserved,...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...builds on the work of scholars in environmental history, medical humanities, and ethics to analyze the cultural and economic factors in health policy and medical care. This history reveals heroes...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Wilson Lumpkin, almost all the removal troops in the state were Georgians and under the direction of the state militia commander rather than a federal officer. In a nod to...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...understanding of the word family. The philosophy of Key West since 2000 has been "One Human Family," in which all are equal and all resist narratives that seek to divide...