Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...expeditions to me, thinking it's my job, not theirs, because I've done it so long I'm used to such nights, because old as I am I'll still do what they...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...it saw no evil. For example, in 1898 it upheld Mississippi's new state constitutional provisions that resulted in disfranchising almost all African Americans by concluding that the provisions "do not...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...shrouded in smog looms over it. It's a busted up Emerald City, desaturated and toxic, an unreal city in an industrialized Oz. HBO has three shows set in Louisiana: Treme,...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...Epps. Viewers numbed by years of cheap thrills need a film like this to remind them that horror is real and persistent, especially if you try to ignore it. About...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...his 1852 visit that "Mammoth Cave is as large as a county, but having another county on top of it, it is not represented, I believe, in the Kentucky Legislature....
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...partner in the movie is, fittingly, one of her own former students, a vet of the War on Terror who is ill-equipped to deal with Olivia's defiant children, in spite...
"Aint that Something?"
...Gipe captures its looming presence in an illustration of the word in all capital letters; Dawn says, "It was the first time I ever heard the word." (302). Prescription pill...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...class of African American Muslims in Atlanta makes it an interesting and important city to analyze in a study of ethnic relations in the American ummah. Given the popular image...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...initially excluded to ensure that page numbers included in the minutes reliably indexed specific songs in The Sacred Harp. The exclusions also improve the representativeness of the minutes, which feature...