"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
...discovered shrimp and crawfish, making a compelling cuisine along the way. They came into a slave society, and after 1780 a significant number of them began to gain slaves. Most...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...persistence." Hundreds of scientists have contributed to the development of WWF's Conservation Science Program and identified over 800 distinct terrestrial ecoregions across the globe.1Robert G. Bailey, Description of the Ecoregions...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
Introduction On a warm Saturday in early summer, a crowd gathers at a white-washed church in rural Alabama. As they begin to sing, a sound rises that is overwhelming in...
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
...Thomas McGrath, Gary Snyder, Robert Hedin, Olga Broumas, and others. At the press I learned from Sam and Tree that if a culture is to have great poets, it needs...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...he had not been made aware of Shepherd’s work beforehand. He continues, “the poem itself does not identify its speaker as gay, but if there is a queer voice, I...
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
...Richard Misrach, courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; and Marc Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles. Abandoned church from True Detective episode two, "Seeing Things," 2014. © HBO....
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...and its auteur to garner several more golden statues. Just don't expect the drama to be confined to the movie itself. When McQueen went up to receive his honor at...