Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Orleans between 1920 and 1930. In response, both the city and the state of Louisiana passed laws criminalizing the drug's use, sale, and possession. In the weeks that followed the...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...ofThe Next Step in the Dance by Tim Gautreaux, Missouri Review 21.2 (1998): 212; Susan Larson, "The Writer Next Door," New Orleans Times-Picayune (15 Mar. 1998): E1. In 1999, St. Martin's published a second volume...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...either side of the Mason-Dixon line, the contemporary policing of racialized spaces—all can be understood not only as battle lines in freedom struggles but also as unacknowledged elements of urban...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...the squeeze is on for profits in a glutted car market. Workers at Nissan can make a car in 15.74 labor hours—and then Nissan makes an average of $2069 in...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...the last thirty years," she began. "He is an individual who has fought for freedom at great personal sacrifice, who has bettered the lives of tens of thousands of American...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...the plantation through the Civil War until freedom came in the spring of 1865. Some newly freed people also stayed in the vicinity. For example, the man Scipio listed in...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...his "experiences of sexual freedom possible. His wealth allowed him to travel around the world, and that wealth was created in large part by black slaves and sharecroppers. His vision...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...our own we can continue to understand slavery's afterlives and shape ecologies of sanity in these also turbulent times."20Segrest, Administrations of Lunacy, 10–11. In order to show connections between the...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...leadership to the integration of existing white institutions which were reputedly better staffed and resourced. But some black community members, teachers and students remember that the interdependence and familial care...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...better. Mama said to stay around the church grounds." "Aw, you're just afraid." "No, it's just that—" "'Mama said to stay around the church grounds!' Fraidycat, I'll go by myself...