Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...constant bombardment of "shistling" bullets and pounding shells. Residents found shelter in newly dug caves, which provided a limited defense, and took a toll on the residents' comfort and dignity....
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...and doing graduate work at Columbia University she was named National Field Representative, Collegiate Council for the United Nations, New York. She returned to Atlanta in 1960 to work as...
Birth Right
...Midwives can provide services in the home at a fraction of the cost of a low-risk hospital birth. A study on the costs of maternity services in 2000 found that...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...of Blackness axiomatically raise questions of free and restricted movement; territorial boundedness and segregation; and fugitivity from the earliest plantations to the present-day prison-industrial complex. For McKittrick, the structural histories of...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...his name in the essay “What’s in a Name?”3Reginald Shepherd, “What’s in a Name?,” A Martian Muse: Further Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry, edited by Robert...
Bodies and Souls
...feel the challenges of life and complexity of relationships in their own way. In 2006, Mississippi had one of the lowest number of physicians per capita in the nation (177...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Movement in American Memory (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006). Chroniclers of the black freedom struggle have long sought to dispel the collective memory that undergirds what local state officials...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...Miller's brilliant new book Segregating Sound is this one: it makes thinking about the meaning of the history of this crazy section of the United States and contemporary "country" songs...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...Smokey Bear. However, foresters such as Yale professor H. H. Chapman, and Austin Cary and Eloise Gerry of the US Forest Service, demonstrated their understanding of fire as a management...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...the vast rural estate. Women receive health services, Emory University Field Station on Ichauway Plantation, ca. 1938–1945, Baker County, Georgia. Photograph by United States Public Health Services Office of Malaria...