Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...Street from the French Quarter lolls a thirty-acre pleasure garden and civic complex called Louis Armstrong Park. City fathers renamed it for New Orleans’s most famous native son in 1971...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...feeding runaways frequently required theft, which risked penalties ranging from a whipping to sale. Confrontations between slaves and runaways were often confrontations between neighbors and fugitive strangers. Indeed, plantation records,...
Residues of Border Control
...do not show encounters between Border Patrol officers and migrants, but they depict the rubber gloves and bullet casings. They do not follow immigrants into detention, but register the residue—detention...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...access to better schools, and find jobs, and the volume of their migration increased during World War I as jobs opened in northern industries. As I discussed in Dispossession, three...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...Approach, ed. John Lowe. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005), 63. His explorations of the complex intersections between race and region developed within the larger context of a social...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...and place. But we can do better. We are a primarily academic publication housed in a university setting and staffed by graduate students and faculty members. We recognize we are...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...mortgage foreclosures between November 2009 and January 2010 continued to rise in western and southern states. Nine states in the South and four in the West had bank card delinquency...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...between Muscogee (Creek) inhabitants and encroaching white Georgians.) The Constitution article references the former site of Floyd's Mill, near where Bethlehem Baptist Church now stands, just north of the Clark...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...Accountability, GHS Index, October 2019, https://www.ghsindex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-Global-Health-Security-Index.pdf. Yet, when the virus began to spread throughout the nation, political and public health leaders overlooked or failed to respond promptly and effectively to...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...Lomax/Zora Neal Hurston Field Trip of 1935 . . . As Described by Alan [Lomax] to Stetson Kennedy," Zora Neale Hurston Box 1, Stetson Kennedy Papers, uncataloged, n.d., George A....