Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...During college, from 1973 until 1977, I stayed pretty close to the middle of the cultural road—short hair and plenty of beer but no pot or LSD. If the doors...
Cajun South Louisiana
...speakers as English among Louisianas free population; by 1860, 70 percent of Louisianas free population spoke English. 1800s Language change was part of a broader process of Acadian acceptance of...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...body of his dead father out back, and lording over a spooky lair that was once, among other things, a fort for Confederate soldiers.18Carcosa, the lair, was shot at Fort...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
Review In 2001, lifelong Anniston, Alabama, resident Ruth Mims was called to testify in a lawsuit against the multinational corporation Monsanto. Monsanto had owned and operated a chemical manufacturing facility...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...money was poured into draining the land and erecting exhibition halls, on the overhyped projection the fair would attract four million visitors. A mere one-quarter of that number showed up,...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...Deal and the Origins of Our Time (New York: Liveright, 2013). State Parks For Negroes Exhibit, State Fair Grounds, Richland County, South Carolina, 1958. Photograph by unknown creator, South Carolina...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...advancing a fair, democratic society—affirmative action in higher education, LGBTQ rights, Native American sovereignty, the electoral college's essential integrity, and the voting rights of Black citizens. In some of these...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...1850 and 1860 provide population statistics by nation of origin, providing the total number of German-born in each state. Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth U.S. Census 1860a-04,...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...how the objects featured in Water Graves's chapters (objects of literature, music, film, visual arts, poetry, and photography) repair the effects of unritual. Windward Coast by Radcliffe Bailey, New York,...