The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...common, fluid border in the geographic regions of South Texas and Northern Mexico. Rio Grande and Pecos Railway Company, Detail of a map of the Rio Grande and Pecos Railway...
Reckoning with Enslavement
Excerpt Georgetown, April 2017 It was early morning when I crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge from Virginia into Georgetown. College spires loomed in the distance, gray in the dawn...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...from at least one threat. P. J. Stoops, Oyster drills, Houston, Texas, 2010. Anahuac, Lonesome, Desperation, Moses Gate, Resignation, Mary’s, Slim Jim, Frenchy’s. For this North Carolina native, Texas provides...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...modalities and transdisciplinary vocabularies for comparing creative works across the broader Caribbean. About the Author Aaron Witcher is a PhD Candidate in French and Francophone Studies at The Pennsylvania State...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...taken up hookworm and pellagra as challenges. Funding for health reform began to increase after World War I. New Deal spending doubled the number of county health departments, from 396 in...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and co-editor of the Southern Literary Journal. She received both her MA and PhD in English from the University of Tennessee and is the...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...siguiente más de cuatrocientos inmigrantes mayas asistieron, incluyendo grupos de Greenville, Carolina del Sur y dos pueblos de Alabama. Para el 2004, el número de participantes alcanzó más de seiscientos.28Entrevistas...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...Thought in the South, 1919-1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983), 90-114. The past looms especially large in Richmond in part because Douglas Southall Freeman's voluminous histories mesmerized...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...professor of English at University of North Carolina Greensboro. His publications include The Real South: Southern Narrative in the Age of Cultural Reproduction (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Universiy Press, 2008)....