Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...leftover tracts of land. No less engrossing is their history. According to Lake Douglas, author of Public Spaces, Private Gardens: A History of Designed Landscapes in New Orleans, and a...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...landscape of Jackson, Mississippi in the summer of 1963 Texts Referenced James Baldwin, Excerpt from Blues for Mister Charlie (1964) Margaret Walker, "Micah" (1970) Eudora Welty, Excerpt from "Where is...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...a not-quite-attractive-enough limbo. For instance, even as Campanella uses the Bywater as an example of NOLA-gentrification par excellence, he ignores the relocation of New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA)...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...Sea Level, the band toured heavily during the late 1970s and released five albums. Catching the ears of and becoming friends with the late rock 'n' roll impresario Bill Graham...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...has an incentive to cut every last tree, shoot every last large-bodied mammal, and let his cattle graze every last acre of wild meadow, leaving nothing for anyone else. The...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...pre-occupation for much of the population. Cuba imports at least 80 percent of its food, with much of it coming from its largest trading partners—China and Venezuela. This is hardly...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
..."natural." This "universal" is the language of law and state: and it passes for the common sense of modern society, rarely acknowledged as prejudice. At this level, the history of...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...That measure failed to reach a final vote, but another bill outlawing Sharia law in North Carolina barreled through the legislature.6Foreign Laws/Protect Constitutional Rights, North Carolina Session Law 2013-416 (passed...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...and privileges of all persons born or naturalized in the United States; due process and equal protection of the laws; House apportionment based on "the whole number of persons;" and...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Alabama has provided the setting for a number of influential studies on race, labor, and radicalism in the Jim Crow South. Yet in shifting attention from Scottsboro's sleepy courthouse square...