A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...explains the varying roles that European powers imagined New Orleans playing in North America. The French envisioned its commercial importance while Spanish planned to use New Orleans as a buffer...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...hands, and ultimately, lives, in the plantation machinery of sugar-cane slavery and sugar processing as though in a sacrifice devoid of sacredness and rituals. French philosopher Claude-Adrien Helvetius proclaims in...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...granjas son complementados muchas veces con los salarios ganados como jornaleros en las plantaciones de café. La población maya de los Estados Unidos también incluye un número más pequeño de...
The Bulletin—January 29, 2013
...of Justice all approved Florida's 2012 redistricting plans, Florida's Second Judicial Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis issued an order which denied a motion to dismiss a challenge to those plans...
A Mess of Poke
...we have a plant that grows out in the woods and the fields, Looks somethin’ like a turnip green. Everybody calls it polk salad. Polk . . . kuh ....
Oil on the Chandeleur Islands from a plane, Off the coast of Louisiana, 2010
Charleston tea plantation tour, Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, 2009
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...The Villages are both in the same springshed. The fertilizer goes down into the aquifer at The Villages, it ends up encouraging plant growth in the creeks and in the...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...be the first president of African descent, and in doing so eradicated racism forever." Nominating himself as Secretary of Postracial Affairs, Whitehead promised to reimagine a number of pre-postracial cultural...
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...