Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...within each of them, of very different kinds of public and private narratives of struggle, allows us a view of the workings of prejudice in unlikely forms and places. To...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...reveal the investment required for soldiers entering federal service. Privates and non-commissioned officers received "muskets and accouterments" but each commissioned officer had to bring a sword and, if possible, a...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...point out, the public and private sphere merge more than in a typical work setting.27Kathleen M. Weston and Lisa B. Rofel, "Sexuality, Class and Conflict in a Lesbian Workplace," in Estelle...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...elections in the South were private primaries of private political parties, not state action, uncontrolled by the Constitution or the courts. Of course, the Supreme Court flatly rejected that claim...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...to mandate local norms but, because of race and class power, actively do so. The resulting "white codes" dictate appropriate behavior, producing mostly mono-racial social networks and maintaining a high...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...examples of special zoning ordinances, exemptions from code-enforcement and litigation, sympathetic task forces and commissions, disproportionate investment in infrastructure and policing, and other accommodations that subsidized economic development. As historian...
The Carolina Piedmont
...and business base. The creation of the "public/private" Research Triangle Park in 1959 typified the continuing effectiveness of the decades-old collaboration of corporate, academic, and government elites, this time put...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...originally published in this volume by Victor Séjour as "Le Mulâtre." As a native of New Orleans and resident of the French Quarter, Séjour spoke French, attended private school, and...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...social media accounts private to prevent his interviewees from seeing a photo of him with his future wife, Solange, who's black.22Reed, "Chapter II," 7:58. Surely Reed can't really believe that...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...not the only traumatic events spiraling through the narrative; there's also the aftermath of desegregation, the rise of private education, the loss of permanent archives from years of flooding and...