Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...control the definition of this disease.2See Daniel M. Fox and Judith F. Stone, "Black Lung: Miners' Militancy and Medical Uncertainty, 1968–1972," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 54, no. 1...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...empty basketball court. Playground and Shell Refinery, Norco, Louisiana, 1998. Photograph by Richard Misrach. Courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; and Marc Selwyn. © Richard Misrach....
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...Studies at Duke. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993); Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995); Local Heroes...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...Press,1998); Rebecca Pelan, "Practising Disobedience: Feminist Politics in the Academy," Hecate 38 no. 1/2 (2012): 210–222, 234; Gary Rhoades and Sheila Slaughter "Academic Capitalism, Managed Professionals, and Supply-Side Higher Education," Social...
Writing Appalachia
...(2004); Felicia Mitchell, ed., Her Word: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women's Poetry (2003); Kevin E. O'Donnell and Helen Hollingsworth, eds., Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840–1900...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
...history. Kennedy is the lead investigator of the New Orleans Mortality Project, and from 2012 to 2015 he served as the project manager for the imagineRio project at Rice University....
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Food Power Politics, 142. Examining food access and equity shifts attention to the environmental and psychological vulnerabilities of Black bodies. Vegetable vendor leans against his work vehicle, Mound Bayou, MS,...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...replied "that this was true, since the pictures were based compositionally on the Confederate flag."9John Szarkowski, William Eggleston's Guide (Cambridge, MA: The Museum of Modern Art, 1976), 11. Eggleston, colorful in...
Our Backward Revolution
...Mayer, They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1933–45 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955), 171. Parking Lot, Hillsborough, North Carolina, 2016. Photograph by and courtesy of Tom Rankin. Over...
Putting up Beans
...filled with great leaves of tobacco, green as beans. Though soon to be gold and brown cured. Now nowhere near Winston or Salems. Not even close to American Spirit. More...