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...
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...
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...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...contested spaces of houses and farms, Paulett looks at an entire river system, the Savannah, and its surrounding landscape. In Paulett's study, the British traders, white and African boatmen, and...
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...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
..."[T]he East Coast," he wrote, "particularly from 40° South [latitude] is, for the most part, unhealthy, and most so in the southern states." Blanc singled out the "terrible yellow fever"...