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...
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...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...factory women in Tennessee made a scrapbook they hoped to share with fellow factory workers across the border; the film project helped exchange experiences and ideas through interviews that we...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...Mifflin, 2005), and The Taste of Salt (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2011). Southgate has received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award, Hurston/Wright Legacy award, the Alex Award from the American Library Association,...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...Pfeifer, ed., Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2013) Campney's book breaks new ground in revealing the hollowness of congratulatory comparisons between...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...as a national problem. The comma in the book's title American Coast, Imperiled Energy does more than its fair share of work, summarizing the argument in the space of a...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...sense of being worthy of a place in American society; a sense that one's gifts from Haiti are making an important contribution to both the American social fabric and the...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...emerged after the Civil War, Mexico often represented freedom from racial oppression.6Quintard Taylor, In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528–1990 (New York: W.W. Norton,...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Relationships," American Speech 55, no. 1 (Spring, 1980): 17–35. Overall this is a fine book: balanced, comprehensive, and well written. The story of colonial America needs to be reinserted into...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...loss of their former country, many Americans have little interest in revisiting this history or learning its lessons. Still wrenching in the minds of Vietnamese American refugees, the policy decisions...