Sweep
...lived here all year I'd buy American, I'd drive a truck, and I'm thinking of football and my father's and Mike's words staking out an absence I know I won't...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...made a city in their own image. The important thing, Powell implies, is not where New Orleans was born, but how and why it has survived and what it may...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...have mapped out the many ways in which everyone is implicated in its perpetuation. Seeing that in the book's information-dense but easy-to-grasp format could start the process of visualizing change...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...in its medical sense since one of the ravages of the sugar industry is the diabetes epidemic in the world's sugar-producing and consuming regions.6 In sugar cane producing French Overseas...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...black men in New Orleans, particularly in the context of hyper-incarceration—one in fourteen black males in the metro region today are imprisoned.4Cindy Chang, "Louisiana Is the World's Prison Capital," NOLA.com,...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...still can function as racial partitions. Photography is often implicated in this demarcation of space. (top left) Fun!; (top row middle) Unsold houses amid red clay; (top right) Mimicked eaves;...
A Mess of Poke
...it through its first braising in salted boiling water. I drained it, rinsed it, boiled it again in new salted water. I drained it, rinsed it, and boiled it a...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...Ways (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996), 10. Historians have long noted the significance of Duden's Missouri boosterism,57Robert Frizell, Independent Immigrants: A Settlement of Hanoverian Germans in Western Missouri (Columbia:...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...1935 to 747 in 1941. Nonetheless, the South continued to lead the nation in the number of stillbirths and maternity and infant death rates, as well as in the incidence...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...Imam Hussein Obama. . . . Imam Barack Hoover Obama is the correct nomenclature." However, says Limbaugh, the number of Americans who believe he is Muslim is increasing: "Imam Obama...