I-26 looking west at Buckner Gap, Madison County, North Carolina, 2008
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...vivid book. The many scholars who appear in his detailed footnotes have, collectively, pushed forward these three fields, and nudged them closer together. But until now, few authors have been...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...limpid Georgia sky, the glassy towers of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hover into focus. Surrounded by fences and walls, the CDC campus appears impenetrable. Imposing security...
Insistent Traces
...Pharoah. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New England Review, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, TriQuarterly, and Crazyhorse. In 2008 Emerson was named Poet Laureate of Virginia. Her...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...is now a medical office. I come here once a year to see my endocrinologist. He prescribes spironolactone and estradiol to help my body transform into something approximating that of...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...Haaland in May 2021 approved a revision in the Cherokee Nation constitution restoring citizenship status to Cherokee persons of African descent, and indicated her expectation that Muscogee (Creek), Choctaw, Chickasaw, and...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...to learn differing local white rules of Jim Crow if and when they moved to new places across the southern states—and even in the same city where rules applied differently...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...project is able to present an appeal for ceremonies and markers at each arrival site based upon scholarly research. In a very real way, this is the direct and immediate...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...eliciting and using multiple viewpoints; acknowledging hierarchies, policies, and practices that have not worked; and trying new approaches that have a higher likelihood of success. A prime example of an opportunity...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...resumed restricting social safety nets while offering few, if any, alternatives? Changing policy is one problem organizers face, burnout is another. Studies have suggested that we approach "burnout as a...