Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...in America and the world. Masahiro Sumori, Congo Square today, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2006. Sculptural tributes to New Orleans musical history greats are scattered throughout the park, most of them...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...landscape of Jackson, Mississippi in the summer of 1963 Texts Referenced James Baldwin, Excerpt from Blues for Mister Charlie (1964) Margaret Walker, "Micah" (1970) Eudora Welty, Excerpt from "Where is...
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
Family Forestry https://vimeo.com/126311195 Part 1: November 6, 2001: Leavell describes basic procedures involved in a timber harvest, namely selection and organization into wood types. https://vimeo.com/126311196 Part 2: March 3, 2002:...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...Asheville," Asheville Citizen-Times, August 6, 2013, http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20130806/NEWS/308060023/Protest-packs-Asheville; "McCrory Image Plummets," Public Policy Polling, July 16, 2013, http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/pat-mccrory/; and John Frank, "Under the Dome," Raleigh News and Observer, August 14, 2013,...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia as well as scattered counties in North Carolina to seek clearance from the US Justice Department or a DC federal court before implementing a change...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...electric chair. In Murder on Shades Mountain, Melanie S. Morrison recovers the Peterson case from the shadow of Scottsboro—arguably the most significant and certainly the most chronicled miscarriage of justice...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...Mouth of the Mississippi, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 9, 2010. Photograph by Flickr user Adventures of KM&G-Morris. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. European Bodies, Climate, and the Geography of...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...