"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...crop in the inhospitable soil of the Midwest. "A negro rapist has been. . . burned at the stake, chained, kerosened and burned alive, in strict accordance with the method...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...season one, Rust and Marty uncover strange genealogies and rigged systems, sometimes reluctantly and always at great cost to their lives and security. They commit awful violence against people, such...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...Which is to say that Campanella's analysis is compelling to me because I did live in New Orleans, knew the gutterpunks and proto-hipsters who dropped out of Tulane's English program...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...the place where you live, and then to make choices to enhance that place. But bioregionalism was not merely a set of ideas in Port Townsend. It was manifested in...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...evidence of the continuing existence of places away from the big place where, increasingly, we all live." And the reviewer for The North American Review remarked that Gautreaux "knows how...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...horse appear so lively. The narrator recalls in horror: The removal of the blanket disclosed a sore on Bullet's back-bone that seemed to have defied all medical skill. It measured...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...The impact of the X (which I assumed at the time to mark a structure for demolition) was powerful—were these homes and lives being X'd out? What about those who...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...continued to live in the area.4Newton County, Georgia—created December 24, 1821, from Henry, Jasper, and Walton Counties—was based in three ceded Native territories. Under the terms of the 1805 Treaty...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...January 25, 1904). Many African American women who pursued careers in teaching earned respect and status for providing a critical service to a community in dire need. And working wives...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...income. These were the businessmen, educators, clergy, and other professionals, who ironically served the old racial order. Following Emancipation and before Jim Crow's entrenchment, the services that slaves had performed...