Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...tagging photographs (for example, the #appalachia hashtag on Instagram.) As Sontag notes, "photographs echo other photographs"8Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, 84. ; we recognize something in Tamara Reynolds's portrait...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...and European religious traditions with current and historical ties to the site as well as a detailed recounting of the history of enslavement in the specific locale. The installation of...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...the next month, company privates earned fifteen cents a day in extra-duty pay felling trees, clearing brush, digging trenches, making and installing pickets, and building store houses, a block house,...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...out the views of the duties imposed on us, we may in some instances have to rise above the Law."31"Fellow Citizens," Pickens Keowee (SC) Courier, September 22, 1949. The Liberator...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...2021 gross domestic product per capita of $2,458. The country has achieved significant progress in reducing maternal, infant, and child mortality rates, decreasing malnutrition, improving immunization coverage, and eliminating infectious...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...privatized prisons, and low-income housing (and school) voucher programs serve as other examples.4For instance, see Pauline Lipman, New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...1964 (Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2008). In 2011 St. Augustine installed its first public civil rights monument adjacent to the market, honoring the struggle for equality on this site...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...for Medical Sciences Archives. Hot Springs reveals a significant instance of the federal government's racist approach to public health policy. When dealing with white patients, Washington extended a taxpayer-supported hand....
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...Policy Institute, Migration Information Source (April 2006) http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?id=392. Esta primera ola de emigrantes de Guatemala inicialmente se instaló en Los Ángeles, Houston y la parte sur de la Florida, áreas...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...didn't have to dig very deep to find it. Spraying interior of Italian houses with 10% DDT and kerosene for malaria control, 32nd Field Hospital, Unit B Installation, February 26,...