Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...Acadian folk songs."12Lauren C. Post, Cajun Sketches: From the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974), 159. The Cajun performances Post helped stage at the festival...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...winemaker is the theatre in which Louisiana Story originally premiered. "My/Mon Louisiana Story" "My/Mon Louisiana Story," Kenny Reynolds and Louis Toliver, 2006. An autobiographical representation of Cajun culture. Interview with...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...1907, Forest History Society archive. In the summer of 1906, one year after Theodore Roosevelt established the US Forest Service and appointed Gifford Pinchot to implement a conservationist policy,...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...see Jefferson R. Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999). Wal-Mart, the most successful corporation operating in the global economy of the twenty-first...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...Cajuns: An Introduction to an Ethnohistory (Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, 1983), 36. In the more than quarter-century since, he has published two short story collections and three novels, most...
Cajun South Louisiana
...using it to describe the stations broadcast area. It is more popularly known as Cajun Louisiana. C. Paige Gutierrez describes the region as the South of the South, while folklorist...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...more than a hundred feet away from the station's main entrance and taxi stands. The stationmaster who imposed this policy was "no respecter of persons," according to Baptist minister Benjamin...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...for cash. For the most part, this use of Louisiana is either invisible or obnoxious: shows shot on stages in Shreveport or which use places in Louisiana that can stand...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...their white students that they do not attend school with any more than a token number of under-represented students of color. In 2012, the percentage of white students attending "exclusionary"...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...and effects. In this zone where the South "ends," we can understand more about the region's modern development because the contradictions at the heart of it stand in such stark...