University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...is a doctoral student in the department of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research describes how technology—from interactive webmaps to sediment diversions and environmental modeling tools—shapes how regulators,...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...has received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, the University of Wisconsin, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Jerome Foundation, and Stanford University where he...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...to Mississippi include California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New York, Vermont, and Washington. Additionally, both Washington, DC, and select counties in Wisconsin, Ohio, Maryland, and Oregon issued travel bans. Cities including Baltimore,...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...a comment from a researcher that I hired to track down historical film and video of black Chicago. One day during a phone call she expressed anger and frustration at...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...the United States, due process and equal protection of the laws, House apportionment based on "the whole number of persons," and citizens' right to vote without regard to "race, color,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...this decentralized music culture. Minutes detail the name of each song leader, the page number(s) of song(s) each person led, the names of officers and committee members, these committees' reports,...