Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...stamp collecting as well as a casual mention of marijuana smoking, see "Just What Is Dishonesty," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), July 1, 1923, sec. One-B; "Literature—and Less—Comments on the Books of...
The Carolina Piedmont
...the Dukes emerged." Stirred by the backwoods democracy of camp-meeting revivalism in the early nineteenth century, the region's evangelical fervor soon turned to the growth and maintenance of congregations and...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...film Some Like it Hot, once you have studied the history of Prohibition at the Miami-Caribbean borderlands, suggests that contemporaries seeing it for the first time might have understood the...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...dripped with sweat and their heads spun. Occasionally, at midnight, a small drama troupe would perform an original play up and down the aisles of the twenty-four-hour Kroger. Film buffs...
Whiskey and Geography
...posted online without the written permission of the copyright holder. About the Author A native son of Franklin County, Virginia, author and filmmaker Charles D. Thompson, Jr. is the curriculum...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...and Technology Camp) Feminisms South. On the first day of our unconference we edited and wrote Wikipedia articles along with others across the United States, particularly at THATCamp Feminisms West...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...bibs, bibles. Sunday dinner. Roadside eats. Potato logs on a hot tray under a heat lamp. Lessons. Teachers. Strong women—mothers and daughters, activists and administrators—who hold it all together. It...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...say. Jim Bunkley: He, he'd play guitar in— Mitchell: —how come you think it is— Jim Bunkley: films too. Mitchell: How come you think it is that all of y’all...
Mississippi Delta
...to Robert Johnson's brooding blues of a haunted crossroads in Delta, to William Faulkner's stories of the taming of the natural environment in the Delta. German filmmaker Wim Wenders, in...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
The government blew the levees / I used that Katrina water to master my flow. —Hollygrove Mikey, "Make Medicine Sick"1"Hollygrove Mikey, The Ca$hius Clay Tape," http://hollygrovemikey.bandcamp.com/. Lil Wayne plays...