Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...minutes to arrange some lights" (47). Instead of following through on what other writers portray as a moment of gothic terror, Carpenter uses the remainder of the paragraph to praise...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...Woody Harrelson in virtuoso performances, travel from Lake Charles to Avoyelles to Lafayette to lower Terrebonne to Beaumont, Texas, to suburban New Orleans to Erath, tracing intensities and textures of...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...Pitt, who also was one of the movie's producers) who got word to Northup's friends in New York.2Pitt's presence in the film is one of 12 Years a Slave's few...
Congregation
...great machines. Riding the prow of the cleaners, or walking ahead, he watched for carcasses—chickens mostly, maybe some cats or dogs. No one said remains. No one had to. It...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...here of too easily resorting to violence whether on the urban frontier or over hunting leases, boat wake, or road rage. The great conundrum of life in New Orleans is:...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...information contact: Rep. Tyrone Brooks, President, Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials, 404-656-6372 or 404-372-1894, Cassandra Greene, Director 770-899-7424, or visit our Web site: www.ga-gabeo.org. Message to the killers: “You...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...Hatfield says. Features of the Atlanta Studies Site Atlanta Studies website, 2015. Screenshot of the projects and resources available to members of the public as well as academics. Courtesy of...
The Liminal Site
...our Birmingham house. I have opted, therefore, to continue using the present tense and referring to the place as "our house," especially because we own no other: in North Vancouver,...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...the question of guilt or innocence, but questions whether or not our system of justiceIs truly equal for all. —Gwen Magee God of Our Silent Tears I takes viewers into...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...count on one hand the number of writers given high administrative responsibility. Saxon was one of them, and maybe the most highly regarded of the lot. On several occasions Washington...