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...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...University of California Press, 2009), 46. One of these, the Williams House or "Yellow House" was located on the south side of "B" street (now Independence Avenue), more or less...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...course, the Devil himself. It is often experienced as both cause and effect, action and reaction, and it can be used as both hex and counterhex, poison and antidote, pain...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...complete. While she was gone, we kids would take turns showering in our house's one shower, make our sack lunches (usually peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and some version of...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...Folklore Society annual meeting that Harry Oster helped found. Lomax used the opportunity to challenge the cultural integrity of CODOFIL, a state agency designed to promote and preserve French in...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...and insisting that they work to better the neighborhood for all residents, board members excuse themselves from considering the fundamental importance of inclusion. Mayorga-Gallo illustrates how the association's promotional practices...
A City Divided
...(though obviously these codes could and were violated).9On racial social codes, see Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (New York: Knopf, 1998). Perhaps the mixed-race, mixed...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...are some central technologies Digital Yoknapatawpha uses? The user has begun the "Play Narrative" animation for Flags in the Dust, and has reached page 75. Events can also be viewed...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...gain widespread use until the 1980s. Before then the music was simply known to its practitioners and fans as gospel."6Not that "southern gospel" never made an appearance before the 1970s...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...to us at Southern Spaces. I knew that we gravitated toward them because of stability, accessibility, and breadth. However, one of the key reasons we use them is also institutionalized...