Infant gravesites, Japanese American concentration camp cemetery, Rohwer, Arkansas, 2004
Cypress swamp, Galloway, Arkansas, 2010
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...bathe in the fellowship of family. A Celine Dion impersonator infuses the room with the "Power of Love." Subversive, camp, queer, you think, as the drag performer lip-syncs the words,...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...Trump kicked off his large presidential campaign rally in Mobile, Alabama, on August 21, 2015, by amplifying his hardline position on immigration: build a "Chinese wall" on the Mexican border,...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...reenactors were white, a number of African American reconstructed regiments, such as the Massachusetts 54th USCT, regularly participate in these events. The reenactment phenomenon has proliferated globally to include battles...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...their way to Milledgeville frequently enough. But there were also a number of relatives, acquaintances, and professional associates who enjoyed the O'Connors' hospitality. She writes: "We had quite a gathering...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...to Resurrection City and ended with police throwing tear gas into the camp. On the morning of June 24, as police evicted the remaining citizens and began to dismantle the...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...July 2011 to attend Camp Fasola, a weeklong Sacred Harp singing school and summer camp in Alabama, traveling on to Oregon to visit singers whom they had met at the...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...taken up hookworm and pellagra as challenges. Funding for health reform began to increase after World War I. New Deal spending doubled the number of county health departments, from 396 in...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...