COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...everyone. A bevy of initial accounts present a broad historical outline of what happened—to date. However, potential pitfalls arise when these first reports go beyond chronicling pandemic events and enter...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...American political sociologist John Gaventa initiated a videotape conversation between rank and file coal miners in South Wales and Appalachia. Attending Oxford University with filmmaker Richard Greatrex, Gaventa initially documented...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...and Lesley Sussman, Touched by God: Black Gospel Greats Share Their Stories of Finding God (New York: Pocket Books, 1998), 239. Showing great promise as a musician, Kee enrolled at...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...in greater detail would make for an interesting analysis of this time period. Here, however, I concentrate primarily on Sibley's thick descriptions of the area around Sweet Apple and the...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...South Asian mosque experience. Mosques are not only ethnic spaces, they are also gendered spaces. Men greatly outnumber women in most American mosques because, according to majority fiqh rulings, only...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...around Columbus. On weekends, he and his wife Cathy drove within a fifty-mile radius, and, to their great delight, learned that the area was filled with exceptional blues players. "Every...
Congregation
...Prodigal I. Once, I was a daughter of this place: daughter of Gwen, granddaughter of Leretta, great of Eugenia McGee. I was baptized in the church my great-aunt founded, behind...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...continental United States. From their arrival on the banks of North America's greatest river and its tributaries, European and American settlers realized that economic development in the flood-prone region would...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...economic and cultural advancement. He takes an unexpected jaunt through Chinatown, where Chinese merchants established themselves during the Great Depression. Campanella also draws on his own primary research—interviews, photographs, observations,...