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Grey-Washing Jim Crow: The Cultural Colonization of African-American Folk Music

open access: yesRevue LISA, 2019
This article explores the collection of black music by white folk collectors during the Jim Crow era in the U.S. South as an act of cultural colonization.
Sally Ann Schutz
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Whole genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of West Nile viruses from animals in New England, United States, 2021

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023
West Nile virus is a mosquito-borne Flavivirus which is the leading cause of global arboviral encephalitis. We sequenced WNVs from an American crow found in Connecticut and an alpaca found in Massachusetts which were submitted to the Connecticut ...
Ji-Yeon Hyeon   +11 more
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Mosquito blood-feeding patterns and nesting behavior of American crows, an amplifying host of West Nile virus

open access: yesParasites & Vectors, 2021
Background Although American crows are a key indicator species for West Nile virus (WNV) and mount among the highest viremias reported for any host, the importance of crows in the WNV transmission cycle has been called into question because of their ...
Sarah S. Wheeler   +3 more
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Differential Virulence of West Nile Strains for American Crows

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2004
Crow deaths were observed after West Nile virus (WNV) was introduced into North America, and this phenomenon has subsequently been used to monitor the spread of the virus.
Aaron C. Brault   +6 more
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Comparative West Nile Virus Detection in Organs of Naturally Infected American Crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos)

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2001
Widespread deaths of American Crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) were associated with the 1999 outbreak of West Nile (WN) virus in the New York City region. We compared six organs from 20 crow carcasses as targets for WN virus detection.
Nicholas A. Panella   +5 more
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The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2017
Andrew W. Kahrl reviews William E. O'Brien's Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015).
Andrew W. Kahrl
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Plastic and the nest entanglement of urban and agricultural crows. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
Much attention has been paid to the impacts of plastics and other debris on marine organisms, but the effects of plastic on terrestrial organisms have been largely ignored.
Andrea K Townsend, Christopher M Barker
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Introduction to African American Travel Narratives from Abroad: Mobility and Cultural Work in the Age of Jim Crow

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2017
Gary Totten, Introduction to African American Travel Narratives from Abroad: Mobility and Cultural Work in the Age of Jim Crow (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015), 1-15.
Gary Totten
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“Separate, Therefore Equal”: American Spatial Segregation from Jim Crow to Kiryas Joel

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2021
In rejecting Plessy v. Ferguson’s “separate but equal” doctrine in Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court created a presumption that segregation equals discrimination. However, alongside this assertion, American space has become increasingly
Shai Stern
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Crow Deaths Caused by West Nile Virus during Winter

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2007
In New York, an epizootic of American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) deaths from West Nile virus (WNV) infection occurred during winter 2004–2005, a cold season when mosquitoes are not active.
Jennifer R. Dawson   +8 more
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