How I Shed My Skin
Presentation and Review Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we've come a long way—thanks to...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...Class Consciousness in an Indian Community” in Moors, Guatmala Indians and the State, 205-229; John M. Watanabe, Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World (Austin: Univesity of Texas Press,...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...landscape architect himself, “the evolution of the designed landscapes of New Orleans is unlike any other within American landscape history….” (2). Douglas’s claims for uniqueness start with the town’s semi-aquatic...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...map, or McLemore himself, hadn't already told him where it was?), Reed effectively "dissolves" the specific landscape of Alabama into a more symbolic landscape of rural counties "like" Bibb whose...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...bring Ree to the freezing shallows where her father’s body has been hidden. At their direction, she pulls his corpse partly out of the water and, weeping, holds his rigid...
Cajun South Louisiana
...speakers as English among Louisianas free population; by 1860, 70 percent of Louisianas free population spoke English. 1800s Language change was part of a broader process of Acadian acceptance of...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...rice planters for a slave-based plantation economy. Jennison unpacks Georgia's slave codes from 1755, 1765, and 1770 to demonstrate how a Savannah-based, Lowcountry elite eventually seized power. Jennison cautions, however,...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Albert May, was a planter and also an amateur photographer who documented the Delta’s society and agricultural landscape during the 1920s. His photographs of plantation stores, baled cotton, and the...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...black oppression. Across the US South, immigrant-advocacy groups borrow heavily, sometimes directly, from a civil rights playbook, mapping the 2003 Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride onto the original Freedom Ride and...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...an Urban National Park (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2011). Orff is the Founder and Co-Director of the Urban Landscape Lab and a Partner at the landscape architecture firm SCAPE....