Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...to a twenty-three million dollar campus in 2000, paid for by the state of Louisiana.1This is the number my wife (NOCCA '04) told me when I asked her on Gchat...
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...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...while working feverishly to change them into something else" (front cover flap). Outlining the enormous human-induced change along the Mississippi is a formidable task, but Klein and Zellmer unveil some...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...Piedmont South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008); Glenn C. Altschuler, All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004); John W....
Social Justice Environmentalism
...it during the Nixon administration. A series of telegenic disasters proved instrumental in eliciting change. In January 1969, just days after President Richard M. Nixon took office, a blowout at...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...depicts Haitians traveling by passenger jet and wooden boat to Miami, framing Rey and Stepick's emphasis on religious exchange and serving as a devotional reminder of the journeys between these...
The Chesapeake Bay
...human systems and the close interaction between environmental shifts and human societal, economic, and even political change. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and its...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...of the Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club. The crowd has changed. It’s very diverse now at the parades in this town, you know. It’s white and blacks...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...never ended."6The precise motivations behind the 1979 changes in the Muscogee Constitution remain deeply contested. Defenders of the 1979 Constitution maintain the change in tribal citizenship was motivated by a...