Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...of New Orleans emerged along with the propensity toward use by youth."7Bonnie and Whitebread, 92. Moreover, younger users were "drawn from the same socioeconomic classes as the adult users."8Bonnie and...
Genres of Southern Literature
...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...or the city has sprawled over land that used to be rural. Frequently people tell me something like, "My grandmother kept chickens. I used to love to gather the eggs."...
Religion and the US South
...Pick Your Poison, Bible-bangers on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras, New Orleans, February 5, 2008. Photograph by Flickr user MA1216. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bottom, County courthouse with...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...authority in religious matters, paid inordinate attention to female reproductive organs as the cause of insanity, and promoted a racialized vision of healthy womanhood that ignored the trauma of abuse....
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...promoted and rewarded the implementation of New Urban designs: pedestrian-friendly, mixed use, transit-oriented, filled with open spaces, and humanly scaled.56Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, and Mike Lydon, The Smart Growth Manual...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...Journal, June 4, 1963. Image courtesy of Flickr user elycefeliz. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Historians, commentators, and participants have suggested connections between the media, especially television news, and...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...in public domain. Bottom, Typhus is spread by lice... Report lice at once; Use louse powder, ca. 1940. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Colson and...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Children: Slavery, Gradual Emancipation, and the Free Womb Trade in Colombia," The Americas 78.2 (2021): 229–257. Historians have used the notion of "the peasant breach" to capture the emergence of...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...profits, and the accumulating wealth from them, came from the wages lost to freed Black people because they were forced into virtual peonage through the use of the Black Codes;...