Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...mid-2000s. Now on loan to the Smithsonian, it's likely to be viewed and pondered by millions in the coming years. Ashley's Sack: A provisional timeline. Timeline information courtesy of the...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...Woodward, "Truth Universal Discusses His New Album and Politics in Hip-hop," The Gambit, September 10, 2013, http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/universal-appeal/Content?oid=2250160. Music writers label him "conscious hip-hop," but Truth's music is a lot of...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...rural legislators to support vouchers. It also camouflages the severe fiscal impact this scheme will have on routinely underfunded public schools after the special federal funds run out. The states...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...the big Alabama coal company where her husband had worked. She had worked at Health-Tex for a while, and then Lynne Fashions, they made fancy knits for Jonathan Logan, all...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...excellent Petrochemical America, depicts the grim outcomes of the collision between oil and gas extraction and Louisiana people.4Gwen Ottinger, "Peopling Petrochemical America: A Review," Southern Spaces, November 26, 2013, https://southernspaces.org/2013/petrochemical-america-petrochemical-addiction#ottinger....
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Cultural and Social Anthropology, 48.1(2009), 1-20. John Soloman Otto and Augustus Marion Burns III, "Traditional Agricultural Practices in the Arkansas Highlands," The Journal of American Folklore, 94 (1981), 166-187. Rafferty,...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...information literacy, social media, art history, and the politics of information. In addition to geospatial literacy, Battista is interested in data literacy, digital humanities, critical library pedagogy, social media, and human attention....
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...never to see them again, or lack legal documents so that parents are separated from their American-born children. "I looked all around, and I saw I was alone," writes an...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...in the Journal of American History, Radical History Review, Diplomatic History, Journal of Urban History, Journal of American Ethnic History, Modern American History, GLQ, H-Net, American Studies, and several volumes....
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...indelible imprint on national and global culture (250). In the book's final section, "Bourbon Street as Social Artifact," Campanella attempts to uncover how cultural and social practice has constructed the...