Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...recounts how Association members promoted laws and zoning practices that shut down bars and blocked live music, leading to fewer venues for brass bands and other New Orleans musicians. The...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...which he realized, "I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...often themselves examples of brittle misunderstanding(s) of the conditions of their own labor. The Academy's big house, the "Euroamerican order of the center," and the black culture center's small house,...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...because you can ruin things for the reader. You can give him a piece of graphic violence that will just overpower the rest of the narrative for him because he...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...authority in religious matters, paid inordinate attention to female reproductive organs as the cause of insanity, and promoted a racialized vision of healthy womanhood that ignored the trauma of abuse....
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Communist Party vice-presidential candidate James W. Ford in October 1936, Daniels wrote a scolding editorial denouncing Ericson's action, not because Ford was a communist, but because he was black.22Eagles, Jonathan Daniels...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...a growing interest not just in maintaining existing theaters, but in constructing new ones.7"Drive-in Theater Search," Drive-ins.com, http://drive-ins.com/srchdest.htm?name=&city=&code=al&status_op=open&search.x=13&search.y=12. Six of Alabama's ten drive-ins opened since 1996.8Calvin R. Trice, "Couple seek...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...engaged. We could locate oysters and restore nineteenth-century reef names because food historians such as Robb Walsh found maps and newspaper stories from before the beds were scientifically coded and...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...a library and study in the upper story of his house, which was his constant resort. During the day, his brother-in-law, Mr. Archibald Davie, had been at the house and...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...in its advertisements and promotional materials. Even in Democratic Clayton County, campaign spots promoted the creation of a super-arterial highway along Tara Boulevard, but said precious little about the resuscitation...