Good-Bye to All That?
...responsible and appropriately scaled industry in order to improve the county's struggling economy. While avoiding the word "zoning" (the third rail of local politics), they emphasized the need to engage...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...a broad public health concern. It is necessary to teach Covid-appropriate behaviors and build public confidence in vaccines and boosters to address new strains of the virus. Across the globe,...
Cajun South Louisiana
...Television Corporation, which received an invoice in which the letter a had been added to Acadian to become Acadiana. The television manager appreciated this striking new descriptor and popularized it,...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
Introduction Playwright Abel González Melo was born in 1980 in Havana, Cuba, the year the Mariel Boatlift saw approximately 125,000 people flee his country, an event he dramatizes in his...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...and more stories of twenty- and thirty-somethings of my demographic—and by my demographic, I mean hipsters with MFAs in creative writing—moving there. Apparently, this is a trend, so says Richard...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...that I hired to track down historical film and video of Black Chicago. One day during a phone call she expressed anger and frustration at failing to find much archival...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...before the 1940s. My first major find appeared in the criminal records that, once I paired that data with immigration records and colonial records from the Bahamas, taught me that...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...by the economic and administrative power apparatus."1André Gorz, Ecologica (Paris: Galilée, 2008), 48. A turning point was reached fifty years ago. In 1972, the Club of Rome published the report...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...as environmentalism. Excluded groups link their appreciation of nature and desire for healthy surroundings to a broader vision of social justice inseparable from full social and political rights. Dr. Carver...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...would also allow for the cheaper transportation of fossil fuels, Spears argues that the NO DAPL protests were a great example of "an intersectional grassroots movement linking indigenous rights, climate...