"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the growing of rice. Trapping and hunting supplemented agricultural production, with communal identity reinforced through typical rural rituals such as house raisings, weekly house dances, horse racing, and traditional music....
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...from 30 to 40 miles in breadth at its northern end to 150 miles at the river's mouth in present-day Louisiana. It has been created by the meandering Mississippi River...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...old Bourbon ring perfected by Henry Grady and the Triumvirate," while forging a new legislative ring.83Shaw, The Wool-Hat Boys, 126. His initial gubernatorial campaign against Confederate veteran General Clement Evans...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...must cross: Sweet rivers of redeeming love Lie just before mine eyes, Had I the pinions of a dove, I'd to those rivers fly; I'd rise superior to my pain,...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...part of what makes us human, likely found expression in other media. Among African people, diverse forms of artistic expression defined and gave meaning to their unique cultures. Rituals and...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...of Pacific Rim communities, biological and cultural features of distinct regions, and in interdependence of all life along the Pacific Rim."1For a little of the bioregional history of Poet Townsend's...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...The Selected Shepherd, you present a generally equal number from each of his six collections, with a little bit more from Angel, Interrupted. What were you looking for as you...
Good-Bye to All That?
...young men (mostly black and brown) at a staggering rate; growing numbers of Americans remain food insecure in the richest nation on earth; despite the gains of the last year,...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...and Refinery, Mississippi River Corridor, Louisiana, 1998 from Petrochemical America, photographs by Richard Misrach, Ecological Atlas by Kate Orff (Aperture, 2012). © Richard Misrach, courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York;...