Old River deer, Old River Control Structure, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, 2011
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Baptist church surrounded by cotton fields, a culture rigidly stratified by race and class. Here history and memory cast shadows that recall a tragic past. Here generations of writers, folklorists,...
Oil on the Chandeleur Islands from a plane, Off the coast of Louisiana, 2010
Cotton modules and gin, Tallulah, Louisiana, 2006
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...Magazine," Offbeat Magazine Lets Just Shut Frenchmen Street Down Comments, March 14, 2012, accessed December 19, 2014, http://www.offbeat.com/2012/03/14/lets-just-shut-frenchmen-street-down; Michael Welch, "Music Rights: An Educated Opinion on New Orleans' Noise Ordinances...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...has paved over the evidence. “Stony the Road We Trod” & “350,000” The first section of Bey’s Elegy, “Stony the Road We Trod,” (a lyric from James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...from many of the states in which slavery was legal before the 1860s, but overwhelmingly from the plantation country of the Lower South, from South Carolina to Louisiana. She draws...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...penultimate line, "What a strange thing is 'race,' and family, stranger still." The poem's middle stanza takes an unexpected, if lovely, self-reflexive turn. While the other two stanzas offer us...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...of the twentieth century, singings spread to the Northeast, Midwest, and West Coast. Later, through these same channels, The Sacred Harp expanded to Canada, Europe, Australia, and East Asia.3Jesse P....
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...for New Integration Strategies," A Report of the Civil Rights Project, UCLA, August 2007. The NCES estimates the dropout rate for students of color (specifically black and Hispanic students) at...