University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...catastrophe by any standard. Some 1,800 persons were killed outright. More than a million people were forced to relocate, many for the remainder of their lives. A city of 500,000...
"Aint that Something?"
...(Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015), 76. This material is used by permission of Ohio University Press, www.ohioswallow.com. Trampoline explores the tenacity of ties—in the ways that they offer love and...
Talk Radio, D.C.
...salt mackerel. The next morning my fever broke and the fish was all cooked. Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 ©...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...culturally, tracing the city's trajectory from problematic European colony to Congo Square to today while offering thoughtful considerations of themes in music-making in the city over time. Settling on the...
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...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...number one on Billboard's Pop charts and included "Ramblin' Man" and "Jessica." Leavell recorded two more albums before the Allmans disbanded. Emerging from the break-up with his rock/jazz/blues fusion group...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992). Doing southern studies is thinking geographically, thinking historically, thinking relationally, thinking about power, thinking about justice, thinking back. About the Authors Scott Romine is...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...of fancy.2Edith Mayfield Wiggins, telephone conversation with author, July 10, 2014. Hers was a childhood surrounded by art publications and crafts in various media, and included museum trips to New...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...inner city school, Charlotte, North Carolina, Feburary 21, 1973. Photograph by Warren K. Leffler. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/resource/ds.00762. As new schools opened, the...