The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...cranes of the Nashville Avenue terminal, it is almost impossible to come into visual contact with port activity in New Orleans. This is true despite the fact that the American...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...Indiana, where he died, reported this as a consequence of his suffering in Spartanburg.4The jail time in Spartanburg is linked to Barrett's death in his obituary as reported in New...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...sugarcane land, once a volatile but powerful economic life-force, is idle and in poor condition. Even with its admirable innovations in sustainable and organic farming, Cuba's domestic agricultural producers cannot...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...I don't think that's attributable to the fact that it is so much clearer now that we need this [Act]. I think it is attributable, very likely attributable, to a...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...dance show, I think it was on channel 12, but one of the reasons I remember it is because I watched it. And I remember that there was a dance...
Cajun South Louisiana
...in south Louisiana in the late 1770s, and the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 was a turning point in rising Anglo influence. Before then, there were seven times as many French...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...by itinerant teachers who were often self-taught in music (Pen 212). With a revived interest in church music, composers introduced new tunes that ignored European "scientific" musical theory and broke...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...it." It is June 23, 2016: just ten days after a gunman killed forty-nine people at Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, Florida. You sit in the Kashi Atlanta Urban...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...Freedom Struggle is the latest installment in the growing shelf of books about the Till murder and its aftermath. (Truth in reviewing: I'm at work on a book about Till...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...1900. In an early 1930s interview with the ethnomusicologist John Work III, Rainey notes that she first heard blues at a tent show in a small Missouri town in 1902.21While...