The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Bailey K. Ashford immortalized his first hookworm patients in a photograph. The caption reads: "Photograph of a number of natives of Puerto Rico, showing pernicious anemia due to Ankylostoma duodenale."...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...California, January 26, 2012. Photograph by Flickr user Mikey Walley. Courtesy of Mikey Wally, Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0. New Orleans rap is everywhere and nowhere. Lil Wayne reigns as...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...States and some of her fellow American writers. The volume, entitled Useful Knowledge and published in 1928, contains a "Valentine to Sherwood Anderson" and "A Second Portrait of Carl Van...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...these different groups, and to what extent did their treatment reflect prejudices against the various "others" (such as prostitutes and African Americans) popularly associated with VD? While many historical VD...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) as a model for understanding the consumption of American recorded music. His work also intersects with a growing literature...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...vast blue horizon and restless skyline. Anhinga roost in a nearby island, and below, any number of species of ducks, moorhen and long-legged waders nudge through spatterdock and duckweed. Common...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...marijuana. Valued at nearly $3,000, the stash was "concealed in the rear of the place under a trapdoor."70"Marijuana Seized Valued at $3,000," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), 8. Police frequently made marijuana...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...turns out, the transfer of McDonald's son to Dinsmoor's care was not unique. In the decades following the US Revolution, a number of American Indian women and men and elite US whites...
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,...