Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...clock in the rubble showing the time Katrina came ashore. Nothing in these color photographs indicates that the devastation had occurred a year earlier; the damage appears recent. Todd Bertolaet...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...playing outside with friends, drawing superheroes, and tormenting my little brother than in appreciating educational tourism. Clint Fluker exploring archival materials at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...is the author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently Terroir, 2011. He has also published nine volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek, a New York Times bestseller. A sequel...
Bricking the Church
...and as its doctrine softens puts on a hard shell for weathering this world. Acknowledgments "Bricking the Church" from Robert Morgan's book Groundwork (Gnomon Press, 1979) appears here by permission of...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...my usage of "fragment," see chapter 2 in Gyanendra Pandey, Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (Stanford University Press, 2005). A slightly different articulation appeared in the original version: Gyanendra Pandey,...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...health response in the United States to COVID-19 was uneven across federal, state, and local entities, the narrative about disproportionate risk and mortality became apparent early and the public health...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...it, or when it is forced on our attention: racism, casteism, patriarchy, heteronormativity, reductive monoculturalism. Vernacular prejudice appears as bias, malice, or inherited structures of discrimination, which the state believes...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...went wrong. A thorough and wide-ranging exploration is needed, which calls for contributions from multiple disciplines and approaches. As historian of science Robert Proctor recommends: "We need to think about the conscious, unconscious,...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...