A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942 (New York: Routledge, 2007). In 2013, the University of Virginia Press published The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration (Charlottesville:...
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...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...the shining example of Henry Grady's New South ideology — seeking industrialization through northern capital and promising racial justice through segregation. But in spite of the city's aggressive promotion of...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...Indian (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2006), 189. Battle of Talladega, 1855. Engraving by unknown creator. Courtesy of the New York Public Library Art and Picture Collection Division, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-f6d5-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. In current...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
Rebuilding the Land of Dreams Video Part 2: Spitzer discusses “The Basin Street Blues” and prominent representations of New Orleanians in the realms of work and play Part 3: Spitzer discusses how...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...pastoral past while providing a new generation of white southerners with moral instructions to navigate a new modernizing world. The lyrics of many gospel songs Kieffer wrote evoke scenes of...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum (New York, The New Press, 2020). deals with the first hundred years of Georgia's Central State Hospital in...
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...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...she is writing her dissertation on post-Katrina hip-hop and recovery in New Orleans. She has worked as a promoter, artist manager, and musician within the New Orleans hip-hop community since...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...the end of 2014. Partners N Crime, Eastover, New Orleans, June 15, 2012. Photograph by Holly Hobbs. Courtesy of Holly Hobbs. Countless members of New Orleans' creative communities lost their...