Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005. From Dorothy Moye's Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition. 400-600 word proposals should include: a description of the major ideas, arguments, and sources for the...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...if we had a history of the public health system systematically and consistently providing preventative treatments and care, regardless of partisan politics, would it make a difference in vaccination rates...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
Video and Essay https://player.vimeo.com/video/269927353?byline=0&portrait=0 Ryan Gainey with cut flowers, Decatur, Georgia, ca. 1993. Photograph by David Schilling. Ryan Gainey (1944–2016) grew up in the Sandhills of South Carolina in the...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...liberation, and hippies," as historian Bruce Schulman has noted.1Dominic Sandbrook, Mad As Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right (New York: Random House, 2012),...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...distinct relationship? Epopeya, Aguijón Theater, Chicago, Illinois, 2016. Directed by Sándor Menéndez. Photograph by and courtesy of Rosario Vargas. González Melo: They have been very different experiences. In Chicago, for...
Congregation
...at last there was work, he got a job, on the beach, as a watcher. Behind safety goggles, he watched the sand for bones, searched for debris that clogged the...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...white supremacist paraphernalia led to a long overdue consensus in the all but all-white Republican party that publicly-sanctioned displays of the flag should stop. South Carolina and Alabama removed the...
Encountering COVID
...piling up food and toilet paper. After our agricultural season ended, a lot of our farmworkers migrated to California, particularly Salinas, San Joaquin, Santa Maria. Then we started hearing about...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...them first and, because it is a legal program, they aren't doing anything wrong. They are bringing H2A workers in with federal sanction and visas. None of the workers in...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...somewhat uneven book, law professors Christine A. Klein and Sandra B. Zellmer combine environmental and legal history in their examination of the relationship between human action and disaster in the...