Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...bomb."2Quoted in: Hugh Gusterson, Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), 1. Of course, some love nuclear weapons more...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...Vodou reference themselves as "servants of the spirits," and understand the religion as a worldview. See Karen McCarthy Brown, Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Berkeley: University of California...
Mississippi: State of Confession
Review The Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum mock-up from the 2 Mississippi Museums Project Fact Sheet, 2013. Mississippi says it is ready to confess some...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...Louisiana plants from corporate offices, out to central research and development facilities, off to California refineries, back again to take the helm of a plant somewhere else along the river;...
Birth Right
...and Children First. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Midwifery advocates argue that many of these interventions carry high risks and complications that may not be clearly communicated to patients. Women...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...his mind flooded with dozens of cases of FHA discrimination. For example, he observed that, since he moved to Elbert County in 1952, the number of black farmers fell from...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...Pass. The sheer number of oysters in one place was notable, however the history came from the laminated nametags accompanying each sampling of oysters. Rather than numeric codes in fine...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...say there are five thousand Creek speakers left, but nobody seems to know where that number comes from, and many suggest there are only a few hundred speakers, some even far fewer....
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...sided with the Confederacy. There were a disproportionate number of Creek leaders who had close ties to the Deep South: economic relationships, cultural influences, and, to some degree, plantation systems....