Cajun South Louisiana
...area that was part of a larger French West Indian plantation zone in the 1700s, and descendants of these early French landowners would become farmers and planters in the area,...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...however, typically ignore political and other man-made boundaries. By the 1970s, the US public land management agencies had realized the importance of land classification on the basis of regional variations...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...The Opossum and American Foodways" (Washington DC: Library of Congress, August 15, 2019), https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2019/08/a-possum-crisp-and-brown-the-opossum-and-american-foodways/. Laborers employed by wealthy Cajun farmer Joseph La Blanc holding an opossum and birds they shot...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...a limited number of tunes. Singing schools emerged to teach lay-persons the basics of reading and performing music. These schools operated independently of any congregation or denomination and were run...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...lives and works of Paul Robeson, Lorraine Hansberry, and Ella Fitzgerald, among others. These productions were marketed as gala fundraisers for the Schomburg Center featuring leading artists of the time...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...the last Ice Age." Berg ends his introduction by placing his natural countries in an anatomical metaphor suggesting the emerging Gaia hypothesis (that earth is one large organism) made popular...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...mother is laughing in the hallway with her friends I don’t like much, maybe the numbers runner who gives me dollars to go see movies while they fuck, a mattress...
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
...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
...a Slave. While McQueen didn't pick up the same trophy at the Golden Globes a few weeks later, he arguably took home that night's biggest prize when 12 Years a...