Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...as Oxford College of Emory University—and directly past Bethlehem Baptist Church, the county's oldest African American house of worship. For two centuries the waterway has been a significant site of...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...where subjects do not produce "survival modalities," defined by Jafa as "the ways that black people have been conditioned to act or appear in film—to sit, stare, or talk in...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...collected volumes as "his generation's 'finest contribution to American patriotism.'" And then there were the guides to major cities: New York and San Francisco, Chicago and Atlanta, to name but...
Cajun South Louisiana
...discovered shrimp and crawfish, making a compelling cuisine along the way. They came into a slave society, and after 1780 a significant number of them began to gain slaves. Most...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...assemblage of natural communities that share a large majority of their species and ecological dynamics, share similar environmental conditions, and interact ecologically in ways that are critical for their long-term...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...cohorts. Shifting Racial Hierarchies In Making the Latino South, Márquez places Latinos at the center of a history that lays bare the ways in which anti-blackness and white supremacy have...
Remnants of Flannery
...in much the same way that the writing of Tennessee Williams impacted my plays."8Ibid. For Drago, O'Connor addressed "reality in a detailed and truthful way."9Ibid. Elsewhere, Drago has commented on...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...suffused with devil-may-care life: full of dillagi (fun-loving, jocular), rangeela (colorful), aazad-khayal (freethinking). Rarely are they encapsulated in terms of their readily observable attitudes toward and interactions with a constant...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...decimation of Louisiana's cypress forests) to increasingly complex thermo-, hydro-, and catalytic cracking processes. These processes separate oil into its constituent hydrocarbons, which then become a diverse array of feedstocks,...