Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...way America exerts power over other countries and exploits them. JAMES: Did you see similarities or connections between class inequalities or exploitation in West Virginia, and American Samoa as part...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Deltans migrated to Memphis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Los Angeles—anywhere offering hope for a better life. Most counties in the Delta have lost more than half of their population in the last...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...tradition and creativity on the general populace of the city/region. In a broader sense this perspective views the relationship between the conservation and transformation of cultures we find symbolized in...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...soon see Miss Amelia in the Better Land." In the Oxford cemetery, the Kitty marker serves a comparable function, mediating white transitions between the realms of life and the afterlife....
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...strongest examples of the contested relationship between nations expressed medically. El Paso Anglo and Mexican American elites depended on the exploitation of Mexican labor and expected the neighboring city of...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...It is the troubled generations between the pre-Columbian past and the post-Pasteur present that occupy McCandless, who taught history at the College of Charleston from 1974 until his retirement in...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...gallery were permitted only one shot each. This sensational attention ultimately led the "better elements" of Livermore to "deeply deplore the action of the mob" and support a legal indictment...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...Lillard), fifty years later. "I heard they had better books at Fehr, and it was a lot closer than Elliott, and when they said Linda could go there, I made...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...following the jazz giant's death in Brooklyn earlier that year. High-culture mandarins weren't bashful about voicing displeasure with the name change, insisting there were better places to celebrate “jungle music”...
Residues of Border Control
...do not show encounters between Border Patrol officers and migrants, but they depict the rubber gloves and bullet casings. They do not follow immigrants into detention, but register the residue—detention...