Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...lines and clubs; Carnival celebrations such as the Mardi Gras Indians, African American and Creole Bone Men, and Baby Doll parade societies, the Zulu parade, White working-class walking societies, and...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...to 1965, a “fantasized mexicanness” proved fruitful for a business class that sought to give an escape to white consumers seeking to “revel in the pleasures of racial subjugation.”5Márquez, 16....
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...hesitancy, racial inequities in distribution, and state and local disparities in healthcare funding and facilities, continued to impede vaccine delivery as first the Delta variant and then Omicron took their...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...love of fun and whimsy. The city's storied restaurants, several of them still in business, get proper billing; so do legendary recipes. Even the history it serves up is entertaining,...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...class. He is the author of Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century (2004), which won the American Culture Association's John G. Cawelti Book Prize. Wiese...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...years, working-class caregivers have faced a US political economy ever more hostile to their needs and concerns and increasingly demanding of their time and energy. Although overall poverty has decreased...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...and finally the "Jordan." While the first two names are borrowed from classical mythology, the Old Testament "Jordan" invokes slavery.22Spirituals such as "Go Down Moses" invoked the Jordan River to...
Mississippi as Metaphor: State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: The limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: The idea of Mississippi as America writ large: did the “Mississippi...
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....