Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...a mediating role between the interests of the coal industry and the actions of the state. It facilitates apparent distance between corporate power and public policy, and seems to ground...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...have historically prioritized local partnerships with religious leaders and institutions acknowledging this very important sphere of influence. We must continue to undertake hard conversations about the tensions between individual freedoms...
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Presentation Part 2: Grem discusses conservative evangelical organizations and the rise of Christian small business in the twentieth century Part 3: S. Truett Cathy, evangelical and corporate America, Sunbelt politics, and...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...that our worlds never fall apart, in taking the day-to-day for granted. We like to think we know better (“Here today, gone tomorrow,” and all that). Whatever we know doesn’t...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...models because of its non-hierachal emphasis on mutualism rather than models that maintain divisions between givers and receivers. Mutual aid is rooted in reciprocity. Endstate ATL took advantage of these...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...life. On the banks of the Mississippi between Coahoma and Sunflower counties, sits Bolivar County and the city of Mound Bayou. Founded in 1887 near Chickasaw burial grounds by a...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...while at the same time exploring how through opera the former European empire may write, or better, sing back."6Guarracino, "Imoinda's Performing Bodies," 212–223. The "hybridized" or exotic version promised by Imoinda,...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...black scholars and institutions committed to using their intellectual powers to create and support the development of a better world for black people are called to do. My work at...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016); Alexandra Minna Stern, Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...of defenses. Traveling on a ferry boat with his grandmother, Reed asked her why chicken wire had been strung between the segregated seating areas. "Well, you see," she stage-whispered, "a...