University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...diving into a swimming pool with a haunting narration from literary scholar Hortense Spillers. Without equivocation, Spillers warns, "I know that we are going to lose this gift of black...
Dirty Little Story
...bluff with all our paraphernalia. We stop short. Even the children are horrified by the litter. I have never seen anything like it, not on Pickwick or anywhere else. And,...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...our trip, we came across many models of reconciliation. Faith-based Mission Mississippi brings people together for social activities that build trust around shared religious values. Northern Ireland has created political...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...statute of Louis Armstrong clutching a trumpet in one fist and a sweat-soaked handkerchief in the other. There’s even a bronze likeness of Buddy Bolden in triplicate, whose cornet playing...
Good-Bye to All That?
...election, I heard enough angry remarks from voters, many bearing all the marks of poverty (or barely hanging on to middle class), to become persuaded there is little future here...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...persistence." Hundreds of scientists have contributed to the development of WWF's Conservation Science Program and identified over 800 distinct terrestrial ecoregions across the globe.1Robert G. Bailey, Description of the Ecoregions...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...of minutes, the chaotic scene turned deadly. Steps away from his mother, a thirteen year-old-white boy lay motionless on the ground, bleeding profusely from the head. A few hours later,...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...dozen university officials, and a cluster of Jesuit priests assembled inside Healy Hall for the liturgy and slowly processed into an ornate, wood-paneled auditorium on the third floor. After the...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...that Louverture had no interest in fomenting insurrection.3Compare Paulus, The Slaveholding Crisis, 23–24 and Johnson Diplomacy in Black and White, 58–67. Le 1er. Juillet 1801, Toussaint-L'Ouverture, 1801. Lithograph by Eugène...