Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
Review In May 2015, journalist Steve Inskeep wrote an op-ed for the New York Times arguing that nineteenth-century Cherokee leader John Ross should be featured on the opposite side of...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...Pennsylvania" a reliable treat. Listen to Stein read excerpts from The Making of America Once out of Allegheny, Stein, like her teacher William James and his brother Henry and their...
The Liminal Site
...non-native species mentioned above—mercifully minus kudzu but plus mimosa. Our discovery that the fence even had a gate was the result of an almost archaeological investigation. Unlike my midwestern in-laws,...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...that as many as 500,000 Maya have migrated to the United States. Most come from poor rural towns and villages in the western highlands of Guatemala where they speak one...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...the wounded teenager, later identified as Timothy Weber, died in the local hospital. "That single shot," New York Times journalist Bob Herbert reported in 2007, "set in motion a tale...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...people listened—at practice spaces and house parties and venues like the 40 Watt. People went to hear their roommate or boyfriend or coworker play one night and urged everyone to...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...rather than for an audience. Though non-singers such as family members and descendants of singers, congregants at churches hosting singings, and other curious individuals do sometimes come to listen, the...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...marginalized groups include not only land struggles by formerly enslaved people and by Native Americans, but also agricultural movements and the class-based mobilizations of populist agrarians. Chicano farmworker fights against...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...for, among other things, playing local rap on New Orleans's listener-supported community radio station, WWOZ 90.7FM.14See Scott Jordan, "The Rap on WWOZ," The Gambit, August 19, 2003, http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/the-rap-on-wwoz/Content?oid=1241861. Rogan was...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...death. Climate change generates public health threats that include natural disasters and the creation of warm, virus-nurturing environments that promote chikungunya, dengue fever, ebola, and zika—diseases that call to mind the...