Throughout Latin America, social medicine has been widely recognized for its critical perspectives on mainstream understandings of health and for its progressive policy achievements. Nevertheless, it has been an elusive subject: hard to define, with puzzling historical discontinuities and misconceptions about its origins. Drawing on a vast archive ......
John Shelton Reed's Barbecue celebrates a southern culinary tradition forged in coals and smoke. Since colonial times southerners have held barbecues to mark homecomings, reunions, and political campaigns; today barbecue signifies celebration as much as ever. In a lively and amusing style, Reed traces the history of southern barbecue from its ......
Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States
In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthetics, bodily adornment, and spirit possession. Nwokocha ......
This book explores the built environments of the Bahian Reconcavo plantations and their historical significance in the African Diaspora. More than one million Africans were brought to work in the sugarcane plantations of the Reconcavo region. This massive influx of enslaved Africans had a profound impact on society, influencing various aspects of ......
In the Black Geographies issue, authors roller skate to claim space and joy, examine the role of the King James Version of the Bible in Black placemaking and meaning-making, mine the pages of literary geographer Gloria Naylor, and more. As guest editor Danielle Purifoy writes, "Black geographies urges us to reflect on, retrieve, and rebuild our ......
Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States
In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthetics, bodily adornment, and spirit possession. Nwokocha ......
The core of this book consists of essays originally posted on the blog of the Cold War and Internal Security (CWIS) Collection, belonging to Academic Library Services, East Carolina University. The end result is a collection of 24 self-contained chapters, organized into five chronological/topical sections, covering various aspects of the efforts ......
The Interactive Museum Exhibition Official Field Guide
Desperate, NC is a collaboratively-written mosaic novella centered around the fictional town of Desperate, located in the backwoods of North Carolina. Told through a collection of found documents and tied together as a futuristic museum tour, this unconventional blend of multi-genre storytelling and historical speculative fiction gradually ......
The 7th issue of Analog Cookbook, titled Analog Erotica, looks at sexuality, erotic imagery, and pornography's contributions to radical artistic practices in relation to analog media. Human sexuality is a ubiquitous part of our film culture; magazines, television, books, & the internet. Often used to oppress and objectify the complicated lived ......
