Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...first publication, a portfolio entitled 14 Pictures, fifteen images from William Eggleston's Guide, and seven additional images taken between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s. All are dye-transfer prints, their...
A City Divided
...may not have occurred to whites to demand black residential segregation; after all, social codes and local and state ordinances controlled much of the interaction between whites and blacks already...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...federal levels, have contributed to the discourse of sickle cell disease (SCD) as a black disease, despite a prevailing cultural ideology of racial mixture. Drawing on ethnography and oral histories from...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...local popularity just as the city's black neighborhoods were slipping into the chaos of the crack era, and DC became known as the nation's "murder capital." With little to no...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...southern studies alongside studies of immigration to the South, highlighting their disciplinary, methodological, empirical, and political differences. Although these fields have yet to speak to each other in sustained fashion,...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...Katrina Reveals," (paper presented at Social Science & Medicine, Gender & Health Special Issue Workshop: Relational, Biosocial, and Intersectional Approaches, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, 2010);...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...global connections. From "Residues of Border Control," by Susan Harbage Page. "Spatial Justice" will examine social justice in the context of critical regional studies. The publication of this series will...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...and political landscape. The film weaves together personal stories with archival footage, photographs, and a soundtrack featuring blues, rhythm and blues, and gospel music—much of it recorded specifically for Goin'...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...engines remind us that although the film's characters are battered by the forces of global warming and their carbon footprint is small, creating a carbon-free democracy is not their concern....
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...sit-ins and commercial-bus freedom rides of 1960–1961. In later years, Campbell spoke eloquently against the Vietnam War, capital punishment, unregulated guns, overbearing government power, abortion on demand, and the invasion...