Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...black men in New Orleans, particularly in the context of hyper-incarceration—one in fourteen black males in the metro region today are imprisoned.4Cindy Chang, "Louisiana Is the World's Prison Capital," NOLA.com,...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...out the many ways in which everyone is implicated in its perpetuation. Seeing that in the book's information-dense but easy-to-grasp format could start the process of visualizing change by enabling...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...in the Atlanta metro area, analyzing the complex mobility politics of a southern urban center. A recent New York Times article highlights similar transportation issues plaguing rural communities in Texas....
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...until its closure in 2009. Operating once a week, it attracted both local and out-of-state buyers. Initially, the auction sold both cattle and hogs, gaining a reputation as one of...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...urban renewal. And although I kind of objected to being displaced, because I had a business there, and I had great plans for improvement in the community, south of the...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...made a city in their own image. The important thing, Powell implies, is not where New Orleans was born, but how and why it has survived and what it may...
Sweep
...lived here all year I'd buy American, I'd drive a truck, and I'm thinking of football and my father's and Mike's words staking out an absence I know I won't...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
...when stubborn life got back on its feet, round eyes clear and hungry, my IV stuck in its neck, and I take my time packing up, ask for a second...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...in diaspora exist and move in and remember the world. In its foregrounding of Black and Indigenous histories and placenames, in its evocations of Africa’s proximity to Brazil, and in...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...Commission, the largest in the nation, began its work in 2006 with a statement that would have been unimaginable in 1961: “It is important to know that it is not...