Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...as “the most photogenic disaster in American history since the Civil War.”1Codrescu, Andrei, cover blurb for Jane Fulton Alt, Look and Leave: Photographs and Stories from New Orleans’s Lower Ninth...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...Community with Music” About Nick Spitzer Nick Spitzer, folklorist and anthropologist, is known for his work with community-based cultures of the Gulf Coast, American vernacular music, musicians, craftspeople, documentary media,...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...door at 355 Broadway. The new facility accommodated seven-hundred fifty to eight hundred patrons and quickly became the hub of African American entertainment in Macon. As the premiere African American...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...throughout the 1940s and 1950s. On June 11, 1963, Foster Auditorium entered the national spotlight when Alabama governor George Wallace refused to allow two African American students, Vivian Malone and...
Writing Appalachia
...seek is scattered to the four quarters of the internet.1Websites for locating Appalachian writing include Documenting the American South (docsouth.unc.edu) and Making of America (quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/). Additionally, many specialized anthologies of...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
Review Water Graves investigates how contemporary writers and artists of the greater Caribbean (such as Jason deCaires Taylor) reinvest sites of racialized violence and environmental degradation—as so many manifestations of...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...was chosen as the Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets in 1989, and won the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award for Literature in 1991....
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...transatlantic human trade and provide a means for addressing a painful and shameful American experience whose vestiges persist today. These ceremonies feature rituals incorporating representatives of African, Native American, Asian,...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...page CV of each participant, contact information for each participant, and contact information for panel organizer. Please submit panels to both Jana Lipman at jlipman@tulane.edu and Steve Striffler at sstriffl@uno.edu....
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...Atlanta. From Preface Today, American lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and queers can get married. We can find short-term special friends or life partners on our smartphones. We can venture...