Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...broadly conceived program. I talked with interdisciplinary faculty and, whenever possible, hired bright project personnel who were themselves scholars. I was interested in how media innovations affect the way we...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...loss in additional public health crises. In this commentary, I want to elaborate on how institutionalized ignorance affected the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) response and what can...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...I'm writing a poem is to allow whatever falls into it to fall into it. And if I'm allowing everything to fall into it, then all that I know will...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...called 'marijuana.'" The reader hoped to learn "where it is grown; its effect on the human system and if it is injurious or otherwise." Such questions suggest a general lack...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...susceptible to DDT-induced illness. From existing letters, it's unclear if this is how they felt from the start, or whether they developed this idea in response to official dismissals of...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...by Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953). Rennie Collection, Vancouver. Image © Dawoud Bey. “In This Here Place” takes its name from Baby Suggs’ sermon in the clearing of Toni Morrison’s...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...I don’t think I avoid sexuality anymore perhaps like I did when I was younger in my work. I certainly don’t do it personally! But within the work, I was...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...business claps its hands in satisfaction. What I'm thinking is what about—what about—what about— What about McWane Inc. in Birmingham, major manufacturer of cast-iron pipes, one of the country's worst...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
.... . [I've] never been homeless, and it shocked me. I always had a good job. I had three jobs and that's all gone. It wiped it all out. I...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...in public schools. Just as the Atlanta region's increasing suburbanization of minority group members has not translated into the greater integration of its neighborhoods, so too has it not translated...