Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...New Orleans offers a practical and compelling illustration of the role of cultural creolization as a framework in materially and socially rebuilding the city and affected areas of the region....
Residues of Border Control
...into the United States from the Rio Grande, 2008. This essay offers an interpretation of the Border Project’s intervention on the immigration public debate. By photographing the border area and...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?" "Summer Water and Shirley" By Durango Mendoza Originally published in Prairie Schooner, volume XL, number 3 (Fall 1966) It was in the summer that had...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...descent. With collections numbering in excess of ten million items including books, manuscripts, correspondence, personal and professional papers of individuals, archived records of Africana institutions and organizations, as well as...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...powerful numbers like "South Carolina (Barnwell)," a blistering critique of the construction of the Savannah River nuclear plant in 1975, Scott-Heron directed his listeners' attention to new political battlefields and...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...of a number of "marked trails" of this era—would join existing local roads into a long-distance highway linking north and south. Not coincidentally, it would connect the metropolitan North with...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...whether any sincere anger or regret about Till's murder could issue from an area of the country so steeped in racism. What is so tragic about the Till story is...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...between those who lived on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and in other slaveholding areas. Paulus might have considered whether planters in Tennessee and Missouri, or other landlocked states, were...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...scholarship to take hold in the American South. The first contribution of this emerging environmental historiography has been to underscore that wide area’s obvious ecological diversity. Numerous distinctive ecological regions...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...everything about his subject. But he still leans on like-mindedness and invokes the imperial "we": It was necessary to remind ourselves of those considerable areas of the globe, in which...