Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
The dual attraction of New Orleans. From Katie Gillett, The Post-Grad Hipster's Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities, 2011. Since I left New Orleans for good in 2007, I hear more...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...from the stone quarries. —Zbigniew Herbert, "Classic."1Zbigniew Herbert, Collected Poems, 1956–1968 (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 141. Thanks to Allen Tullos for suggesting this apt quote. Carol M. Highsmith, Smithsonian Institution...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...Interview Twelve Contemporary American Artists (New York: A.R.T. Press, 1996), 94. Lawson: Absolutely. As I say in my artist statement: “Through sculpture and assemblage, my work explores the array of...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...characterization of New Orleans as "an inevitable city on an impossible site."10Lewis, New Orleans. Lewis contends that New Orleans has to exist given its prime location at the confluence of...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...as bell boy, took his own life in his parents' home at 1736 New York Avenue. Perhaps he had never fully recovered from his brother's death. According to the 1975...
Deep Ellum Blues
...blacks lived in Minnesota, but the road builders found them."6Quoted by Dan Baum, "Letter from New Orleans: The Lost Year: Behind the Failure to Rebuild," The New Yorker, August 21, 2006,...
Mississippi Delta
...Plantation, Scott, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939. Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott. Courtesy of The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f8d7-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. Outside...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...conceptual terms, but I haven't found that a barrier to using topic modeling to explore the Dispatch and the New York Times. MALLET generates a collection of materials and visualizations...