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...
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...
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,...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...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 by enabling...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...in the Atlanta metro area, analyzing the complex mobility politics of a southern urban center. A recent New York Times article highlights similar transportation issues plaguing rural communities in Texas....
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...urban renewal. And although I kind of objected to being displaced, because I had a business there, and I had great plans for improvement in the community, south of the...
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...
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...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...tide reveals complex dendritic drainage patterns in tidal creeks, with a road, telephone wires, and power lines as human influences on these environments. 1:53 – This is Cabretta Beach, with...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
...when stubborn life got back on its feet, round eyes clear and hungry, my IV stuck in its neck, and I take my time packing up, ask for a second...