Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...legal presumptions, and other issues, this conflict over the definition and causation of black lung is intensely political: it involves the ideological content of medicine's view of disease, including the...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...When David Wharton asked if I would be interested in photographing the Mississippi Coast with him and Bruce West on the one year anniversary of Katrina's landfall, I agreed, not...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...Independent Weekly vol. 27, no.3, January 20–27, 2010. Featuring Bob Geary's "Rich kid, poor kid: Diversity takes a backseat in Wake schools." Ultimately, in the 2009 election that is the...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...identify others. More than thirty attended that first meeting. Since its inception, the purpose of the club has been to promote interest in street-rodding activities, to create fellowship, and to...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...cases (26 deaths) of the West Nile virus disease in humans in 43 states so far this year. This number represents the highest total in late August since the CDC...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Jafa's daring formalism whetted my appetite for bold, ambitious scholarship in which "forms, techniques, and ideas coalesce into an indigenous or vernacular tradition while remaining opportunistically open to influence and...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...conservationists were also eugenicists. White supremacy and nativism—hostility toward immigrants—were integral to the way many early conservationists understood their work. These ideas infused (and continue to infuse) debates about overpopulation,...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...suppress slave rebellions on a federal scale. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. In 1789, many US citizens gloried in the spread of the ideals of the...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...has a photograph of a rubbing of the same stone. It leans against a tree and is partly illuminated by sunlight. Text carved in relief is nearly invisible in this...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...www.npr.org/2017/03/08/515814287/heres-whats -become-of-a-historic-all-black-town-in-the-mississippi-delta. Businesses and bank of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, ca. 1912–1920. Photograph by Milton McFarland Painter, Sr. Image is in the public domain. Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives...