Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...One Human Family sign, Key West, Florida, December 18, 2012. Photograph courtesy of Flickr users Ed and Eddie. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. One Human Family mosaic, Key West,...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...peasants were "hopelessly ignorant," with weak "bodily structures and facial expressions." The author feared that freed from the restraints of hookworm disease, and without the necessary political education to adequately...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...to listen to the work and let the [objects] share what they are willing. For example, the passbook is very delicate and this was the only page that would naturally...
Good-Bye to All That?
...of adequately funding Transylvania County's school system. They promoted these positions extensively and worked closely with the local Democratic get-out-the-vote campaign. They lost. In the weeks leading up to the...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...94)—initially set it apart from Anglo-American balladry, suggesting that it was less likely to be based on real events and less likely to be diegetically unified, more recent investigation into...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...only as Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956, shows two nicely dressed women, hair neatly tucked into white hats, casually chatting through an open window, while the woman inside discreetly nurses...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...main substance of the book: people. Misrach's photos are oddly devoid of human life. People are seldom his subjects, appearing in only three of the pictures in the book (only...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...advertisements for short story writers. Similarly, if a twenty-one-year-old college student knows Faulkner, it's probably through an anthologized short story like "A Rose for Emily," not because he read Absalom,...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...and conflicted past. Although simple in its presentation, using mostly large poster board and glass cases with a variety of historical artifacts, the purposes and stories presented in the exhibit...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...from Washington and New York—in most cases the only daily news source they trusted.2Mary Ann Watson, The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990),:...