Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...and through and through, the tall attenuated creatures are of an almost colorless transparency" (158). Calling to mind both Croghan's consumptives and the white, translucent, and blind fish that populate...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...the cartography of Petrochemical America, mutating it into a place where pipes and roots and crosses and truck stops and abandoned schools and caves and the good life and the...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...and around them at our streets, our prisons, our decaying urban schools, and the slave trade that still keeps many women bound to men every bit as bad as Edwin...
Congregation
...sign my name in the book, write R0470—his number— and agree to a search, I stand as if I would make a snow angel in the air, and the woman...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...Bar. We were at the end of the second-line for Tuba Fats' huge jazz funeral just over a week ago Sunday. Band members were leaving as conversation and memories of...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Prosecution Now!! 7 p.m. - Benediction at the historic memorial marker dedicated to the legacy of Roger and Dorothy Malcom (and Justice, unborn infant) and George and Mae Murray Dorsey. Here’s a...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...with editorial and advisory board members from organizations and institutions across the region and the country, and aims to engage audiences both inside and outside the academic world. "The Atlanta...
The Liminal Site
...to its new home, the game is just about over. Despite all encouragement and direction, most homeowners run right home and find the sunniest, driest, and nastiest site with the...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...corner significant to Magee's family, and the encroaching floodwaters where streams of music pouring from the trumpet meet and blend with streams of water flowing through broken levees. Multiple details—the...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...the clangor of drays and aroma of roasting coffee had once filled the air, locals and out-of-towners now stroll past art galleries, trendy eateries, and boutique hotels and condos. One...