The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...depicts Haitians traveling by passenger jet and wooden boat to Miami, framing Rey and Stepick's emphasis on religious exchange and serving as a devotional reminder of the journeys between these...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...between the two men. Both Campbell and Marlette denied any connection between the real and imaginary characters under the black hat. In his writing and in public discourse, Campbell could...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...between. You pass by the famous La Concha Hotel and the Cuban San Carlos Institute. You have a conversation with the doorman in Spanish; he tells you where to get...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...hypertextual design reinforces this visual tension between framing and what falls outside. Looking at Appalachia greets visitors with a cover image, a logo, links to information about the project, and...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...occupational lung disease unit at Northwestern University and frequently testifies before Congress on miners' behalf.6Dr. Cohen testified during the hearings on black lung, "Breathless and Betrayed." See "What is MHSA...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...its first Black mayor, Maynard Jackson. He then returned north where he has spent most of the last forty years—primarily at Yale, Northwestern University, and the University of Pennsylvania—teaching and...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Deltans migrated to Memphis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Los Angeles—anywhere offering hope for a better life. Most counties in the Delta have lost more than half of their population in the last...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...tradition and creativity on the general populace of the city/region. In a broader sense this perspective views the relationship between the conservation and transformation of cultures we find symbolized in...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...It is the troubled generations between the pre-Columbian past and the post-Pasteur present that occupy McCandless, who taught history at the College of Charleston from 1974 until his retirement in...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...children cared for, loved, and challenged each other with the hope of making the world a better place. An effortless master of what Houston Baker defines as "the poetry of...