Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...offer services to tourists on the street—ranging from help finding the "best" nearby restaurant to sexual favors. Nearly all Cubans are underemployed, even though most are better educated and receive...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...and warnings expressed in news coverage of the chemical, and throughout government and scientific reports, documents, and publications on DDT. As one news clipping service noted, "not a few" of...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...allows businesses and providers to refuse service to LGBTQ individuals should such service violate "sincerely held religious beliefs." In refusing to hear the cases of Barber v. Bryant and Campaign...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...be the first president of African descent, and in doing so eradicated racism forever." Nominating himself as Secretary of Postracial Affairs, Whitehead promised to reimagine a number of pre-postracial cultural...
The Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley Edward Beyer, Digital Restoration of "Harper's Ferry from Jefferson Rock" from Album of Virginia: Illustrations of the Old Dominion, 1858. The Shenandoah Valley's history marks it as...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Watson and Carrie Matthews, 23-38 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005). As new immigrants seek a “usable past” within which to place and make sense of their experiences, they...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
Introduction Letcher County Judge, Carroll Smith, visits with local resident loading house coal. Letcher County, KY, 2005. Taking pictures in conjunction with Volunteers In Service To America (1968-1970), then continuing...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...the refugees saw the inequality of federal policies and their shared misery from a new perspective. When the Red Cross, U.S. Public Health Service, and Resettlement Administration (to be reorganized as...