Besieged Terrain
...The technique destroys forests, introduces heavy metals into drinking water, vastly increases erosion and flooding, and reduces the number of many species of birds, especially wood warblers, and other rare...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...as during the lauded six-minute-long take at the end of episode four.10Cary Joji Fukunaga, "Who Goes There," True Detective (HBO, January 12, 2014), Episode 4. To set this scene, Rust...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...of suffering under Epps. What follows are some of the most stunning and horrifying few minutes in mainstream film. Sarah Paulson as Mistress Epps and Lupita Nyong'o as Patsey, 2013....
Black Population Atlanta and the Vicinity, 1940-1970
Maps for "White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta" Kevin Kruse, White Flight and the Making of Modern Conservatism Published: 28 November 2005 © 2006 Kevin...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...representatives of labor unions from across the country—longshoremen, flight attendants, municipal employees, as well as members of the United Mine Workers of America from West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...left), Portrait of Tuskegee airman Edward M. Thomas, standing (bottom center), Col. Benjamin O. Davis, full-length portrait, and Edward C. Gleed, wearing flight gear, standing next to airplane, and looking...
The Black Belt
...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...one of its recommended automobile tours and not feel so much as three minutes behind the times. Antique Shops, Royal Street, from the WPA Guide to New Orleans. Nationwide the...