A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...Orleans provided warehouses to store the river’s goods, businessmen to buy and sell them, and captains to transport them. Powell gives vivid portraits of the different visions of empire that...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...tan / my hair is fine / My hips invite you . . . Whose little girl am I? / Anyone who has money to buy / What do they...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...cultural legacy and began to buy houses. In founding the Historic Faubourg Tremé Association these newcomers hoped to tackle, according to their mission statement "blight, crime, and grime" (29). Sakakeeny...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
..."lemme," etc.). "[O'Connor] could write fine country talk," notes Fitzgerald, "and often did, to amuse her friends and herself."3Habit of Being, xiii. A hybrid creature much like the hybrid space...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...from many of the states in which slavery was legal before the 1860s, but overwhelmingly from the plantation country of the Lower South, from South Carolina to Louisiana. She draws...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...that Quamino is "marked with his Country Marks," or patterns of facial scarification that served as markers of ethnicity and identification.2Of course, physical markings cannot necessarily be correlated with ethnicity...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...long career, she never "took her hand off the plow" of social justice, and once her course was set, she did not look back. Interviews with a number of activists...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...to demand the return of her slaves, who to her mind are illegally confiscated property. Simms’s setting in the South Carolina countryside, visualized as ravaged by the British forces, is...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...southern culture. The images include romanticized moonshine runners evading the law, country singers meeting their fate in Cadillacs (the 1952 Cadillac Hank Williams died in attracts visitors in Mongomery, Alabama),...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...a result, they viewed their borderland as a reasonable and rational alternative to the growing sectional conflict elsewhere in the country" (14). Because the span of racial ideologies exhibited by...