Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
Introduction I left Guatemala May 28. I had problems crossing into Mexico from Guatemala. Mexican officials threw me back eight times but I kept trying. They tried to get me...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...the sacred fires that centered each town in the eighteenth century to engagement with the federal government's so-called "civilization" policy in the early nineteenth century, to the valorization of blood...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...only if they dream in English."1Samuel P. Huntington, "The Hispanic Challenge," Foreign Policy, March 1, 2004, accessed January 4, 2013, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2004/03/01/the_hispanic_challenge. Here, the suggestion goes, as in the case of...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...and public cultural policy. He is the creator and host of Public Radio International's weekly program, American Routes, based in New Orleans and heard on over two hundred and twenty-five...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...at Duke University. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993), Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life (Jackson: University...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...of the Arkansas Delta and New Orleans, moved back to the South where he grew up in Pine Bluff, Arkansas,and the Crescent City. Reed attended college in Chapel Hill, North...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...no place. "Mississippi has two cities," said Faulkner, "Memphis and New Orleans." Upriver, the Vienna of the Delta is Clarksdale. We looked for easy sevenths and found a covered wagon...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...12, no. 4 (2006): 55–73; Ali Colleen Neff, Let the World Listen Right: The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2009); Roni Sarig, Third Coast: OutKast, Timbaland,...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
Review Benjamin Wise's book is a fiercely intelligent yet accessible biography of elite white Delta Mississippian William Alexander Percy (1885–1942), poet, pedagogue, patron of the arts, and author of the...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Tom Rankin, Delta Winter, Bolivar County, Mississippi, 2010. Tom Rankin is stepping down as the director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University after fifteen years of service....