Public Health in the US and Global South
...city's HIV "epidemic" to that of African countries. "Downtown Atlanta is as bad as Zimbabwe or Harare or Durban," says Dr. Carlos del Rio, co-director of Emory University's Center for...
Seneca Quarry
...Smithsonian." I've been researching and writing a broad history of Seneca quarry over the past year, a book called The Smithsonian Castle and The Seneca Quarry, which the History Press will...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...percent thereafter—would have expanded health care to 500,000 uninsured North Carolinians.4No North Carolina Exchange/No Medicaid Expansion, North Carolina Session Law 2013-5, (passed March 6, 2013), http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=s4. For the religious right,...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...at the polls in common cause to elect candidates? The answers: few to none. In Calera and in the South today, the simple fact remains that when given a choice,...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...nineteenth century. The following examples attest to American and European utilization of that theory within the American South: Mark Carey, “Inventing Caribbean Climates: How Science, Medicine and Tourism Changed Tropical...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...South and North Carolina, and East and West Florida. Allewaert acutely observes that Bartram's illustrations and travel notes demonstrate the entanglement of human subjects "with the lowland as pleasurable loss...
Editors
...Butters, Duke University Keith Byerman, Indiana State University Richard Campanella, Tulane University Robert Cantwell, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Mike Carnathan, Atlanta Regional Commission Jim Carnes, Filmmaker Dan T. Carter,...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
...to the proposed mammy memorial in Washington DC, and the mammy figure within Lost Cause discourse. About Kimberly Wallace-Sanders Kimberly Wallace-Sanders is Associate Professor of American Studies and Women's Studies...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...the fragmented stories of their lives in Africa: a moment when the slave catchers arrived in a village called Ndeer, of the women who put the stories of their lives...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...enormous human cost of our national obsession with cars and car culture, an aspect of American life that has flourished in the US South and in popular culture representations of...