Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...Laboratory. Built as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II, Oak Ridge was one of three federal production sites housing workers and scientists who developed the atomic bomb....
Call for Papers from The Southern Quarterly: Special Issue on "The Mississippi River and Southern Icons"
...as literature, folklore, anthropology, and history. "The South" is defined as the region south of the Mason Dixon Line, including the Caribbean and Latin America. Regular features include reviews of...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...social, cultural, and economic changes that created the atmosphere of "beachy tropicality and Caribbean escapism" that characterize Bourbon Street's continuous parade in the twenty-first century (228). In between, he traces...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean in its early formulation. Highly recommended for ecocritical scholars. Finally, because drama does not get its readerly due and most of...
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
...of a new scholarly edition of Arna Bontemps's 1939 novel Drums at Dusk and of the collection of essays Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the US South....
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...analysis to encompass Ybor City as a node within a borderlands where the Caribbean and US South meet and shape each other. These books model balancing of the multitude of...
Congregation
...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...employment uncertainty, but the opposite was true. With over 150 shipping companies operating during the midcentury heyday of breakbulk cargo, work was plentiful. The population of New Orleans was at...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...the all-white Society for the Preservation of Spirituals, whose members had been "reared under the plantation traditions" and whose public performances and interpretations of African American spirituals as late as...