Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...begging food from door to door...or looking for food in garbage cans."47 O.C. Wenger, "United States Conducts Clinics for Venereal Diseases," Nation's Health 8 (1926): 103; McCully, "The United States...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...the early 1970s. We're creating a labor-intensive book culture—including a regional press, active writers' community, and a nonprofit bookstore. Betsy Teter, Hub City Bookshop, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 2010. I see...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...stories that imagined the United States as an exclusively white republic unthreatened by the linked nightmares of industrialization and racial equality. Still other writers sought to efface any trace of...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...in play. (Thus, the handout with the full text of the poems). The talk is about forty-five minutes in length; I will look forward to your comments, questions, and suggestions...
Encountering COVID
..."Maybe we shouldn't have photos in the book. Then it would be elegiac." So the book went without the photos; the way it's set up, it kind of tumbles. In...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...And I was surprised, too, by how the book has been received. It's not an easy book in a lot of ways. The sensibility and style are idiosyncratic, I think....
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
Introduction Virginia Ward's yearbook photo, Pebblebrook High School, 1970. Virginia Ward is not a small woman, but the fineness of her hands and the way her gray curls sweep around...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...to our closest Caribbean neighbor. The United States is willing to cultivate relationships with countries with human rights conditions that the State Department deems similarly flawed to Cuba's in the...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...from the Doctrine's intent. The Supreme Court of the United States upheld the doctrine in 1967 in Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC 395 US 367 (1967), but in 1984 the Court ruled...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...and a book that has nothing to do with this section of the United States. That is because Comentale's interests lie in the ways vernacular modernism "eroded local ties and...