Editors
...for social and economic justice in Appalachia and the US South for more than 45 years. Smith served as the Research and Education Director of the Southeast Women’s Employment Coalition,...
Image Credits
...Street" sign, New York, August 29, 2013. Photograph by Flickr user Luciano Alves, Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Historic NYC Mattachine sign, New York, August 6, 2011. Photograph by Flickr user Marty...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...2021 gross domestic product per capita of $2,458. The country has achieved significant progress in reducing maternal, infant, and child mortality rates, decreasing malnutrition, improving immunization coverage, and eliminating infectious...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...of the knowledge gaps that impaired America's readiness and undercut its efforts to grapple with a new pathogenic peril, one for which danger signs were long evident. Failures in foresight were...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...treatment in recent scholarship on desegregation. In her history of desegregation in New Orleans, Liva Baker describes the white mothers, called the "cheerleaders," as carrying signs that read "If your...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...exhibition about that very history. I wanted to understand its origins. At least at the surface, people may be more familiar with the recent history. They have recollections of anti-gay...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...in the 1990s, modeled to a significant extent on the 1960s US Civil Rights Movement, demanded the right to healthcare. Black participants in my Brazilian study deployed policy-based attempts to achieve...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...signifies for Glissant the whole environment comprising the poem, human and nonhuman animals, vegetation, rocks, lavas, and 'nature' and 'culture.' The latter terms lose meaning since they exist in a...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...relatively obscure in proportion to their significance" (ix). One could scarcely imagine a more fitting subject for this series. State parks, O'Brien convincingly shows, became important battlegrounds in the legal...