Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...especially Charles J. Ogletree, The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). A few months later,...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...nature preservation. This builds on important recent work in nineteenth-century environmental history, such as Catherine McNeur's Taming Manhattan and Carl Zimring's Clean and White, and buttresses the argument for long...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Orleans, but circa 2017, very few people in the general public had heard of the fire.51Ryan Prechter, "Gay New Orleans: A History." Googling for tickets, I saw our future. We...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...From the Florida Master Site File for the public market, found in the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board Historic Properties Inventory Form. Public Market Clippings File, St. Augustine Historical Society...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...flight from residential locations or flight into private school alternatives. What factors are associated with Whites choosing to stay in a neighborhood and opt to attend private school? Under which...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...Prohibition, the Depression, wars, recessions, fires, hurricanes, floods, mobsters, raids, crackdowns, segregation, integration, white flight, hippies, rappers, evangelists, the oil bust, the dot-com bust, and relentless cycles of cultural tastes"...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...and sponsored by a "society of men of color." A recent immigrant to Paris, Séjour was in an amenable environment among kindred spirits who shared his sentiments about slavery. La...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...and a coalition of scientists and middle-class suburbanites, who pushed for the preservation of free-flowing streams. It also helps Manganiello demonstrate how recurring cycles of flooding and drought, abundance and...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...to a nearby oil and gas field, the industry and state agencies expressed serious reservations. Jason P. Theriot's American Energy, Imperiled Coast chronicles the development of science and policy surrounding the...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Review When Hernando de Soto's army of six hundred soldiers reached the middle Savannah River in 1540, arriving in what is today South Carolina and Georgia, they likely thought they...