Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...Acadiana, women who are either whores or wives, fisherman roughing it out in raised camps, serial murdering pederasts with Satanic attitudes. Typical of the way Louisiana is coded in the...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...were portrayed. Duval News Company, Old Slave Market, St. Augustine, Fla., Oldest City in the United States, c. 1915, recto. Collection of the Author. From "St. Augustine's 'Slave Market': A...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
Review Although scholars of the African diaspora have long acknowledged the persistence of African cultural forms within the musical, material, and linguistic cultures of African Americans in the United States,...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli has launched a campaign to bring back Virginia's anti-sodomy law.1 The first proposed law on sodomy in the newly formed United States of America was introduced...
Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas, 1943
And the Prize Goes to...
...seminar, “How to Study the South Today,” this exercise serves as the final step in a conversation about the scholarly tools needed to conduct intersectional research and produce multi-modal work....
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...class struggle—and I could not. Because from the beginning of my graduate school education until today—that is, for the last 35 years— the majority of my teaching jobs have been...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...members of her community, many who sought their freedom by way of fugitive paths, to love themselves, fully and deeply, precisely because of the white world outside the safety of...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...younger colleagues working towards tenure. Whether and how this type of work "counts" toward tenure and promotion are critical questions. How do we make the case for this work? For...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...political football. Promotional infographic illustrating the making of Boyhood, 2014. © IFC Films. In times of economic crisis, many pundits and politicians choose to blame our problems on a degraded...