"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...3, 2012, http://3littledigs.com/blog/2012/09/03/studio-life-dee-1/. Dee-1 remembers, Hurricane Isaac, that stuff, that stuff really . . . that stuff was unexpected. My parents lost their house, they lost both of their cars....
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...of communism and other obstacles, the conference "would long be remembered," as John Egerton observes, "not for what it achieved, but for what it aspired to and what it attempted."80Egerton, Speak...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...and we located and glimpsed the history in the names. Who was Todd and what did he dump? What Ladies gave their legacy to Ladies Pass? Where are the elms...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...that’s the whole digital humanities thing—who cares!” What I think we need more of are projects that build insights based on digital techniques, and use that to answer a traditional...
"Aint that Something?"
...of the region that still endure; think of the toothless, bearded hillbilly with a jug of moonshine, or simple folks carving wood or making quilts. A hundred years later, James...
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...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...Moonlight, what is unsaid, what is invisible, is represented as equal in power to what is said and shown. Reading for the beneath raises ethical questions: Why do we need...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...Indianapolis automotive headlights manufacturer Carl Fisher, who had plowed his fortune into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and later into promoting long-distance roads, including the earlier Lincoln Highway. The Dixie Highway—one...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...to the onslaught of ecologically destructive development that looms on Cuba's horizon will come through cooperation and exchange, not isolation. What we do know about Cuba's agricultural innovations is that...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...and livelihood and reparations from the corporations that used and abused them for so long. Maybe that can be the basis for a positive political identity.1For an argument in favor...