Residues of Border Control
...United States but also reflect the fate of those for whom the crossing meant imprisonment and deportation. Photographs taken at the border hint at the lives that migrants started in...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...still live in the closet, and many, the "evidence suggests," are married to women.2Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, "How Many American Men are Gay?," The New York Times, December 7, 2013, accessed December...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...largest non-governmental organization in Bangladesh involved in a variety of sectors including public health, education, microfinance, and livelihood support. It currently employs over 100,000 people across Bangladesh and ten countries....
Writing Appalachia
...Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQBiXDNVeSA); Buckwild (http://www.mtv.com/shows/ buckwild/series.jhtml), Squidbillies (https://www.adultswim.com/search?q=squidbillies), and Saturday Night Live's "Appalachian Emergency Room" (http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/appalachian-emergency-room/n12005/). Distorted though they may be, those two views of Appalachia are...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...where the African American women workers had gone on their lunch hours, about them and their children, about how they lived. I tried to remember just what it was the...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...violators of safety and environmental law, with 5000 workers—who've been injured 4600 times since 1995? Who's stealing health and hands, legs, lives, from those workers? (Barstow) What about the people...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...Appalachia Series. Photograph by Megan King. Courtesy of Megan King. Although most of the region's population lives in urban and suburban areas, Appalachian Studies maintains a strong rural bias. There...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...gospel music, including song lyrics, melodies, and live music experiences, has provided evangelicals with the tools to negotiate the tensions between past and present, sacred and secular, commercialism and piety,...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...Food First), and is widely known as an international ambassador for Cuba's sustainable agriculture. Funes' organization, the Asociación Cubana de Agricultura Orgánica (ACAO), received the Right Livelihood Award in 1999....
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...They assert that on the Catholic side of the Haitian religious triangle of forces, the supernatural being who is believed to be most involved in the lives of believers and...