The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...planters attempted to deny them. In their best moments, these essays transition into something resembling historical ethnography. White's contribution brings us into the underground economy of Louisiana's slaves who pieced...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...2014, http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/autopsy-of-the-noise-ordinance/Content?oid=2433600; Alex Woodward, "Mimi's in the Marigny Cancels Live Music; Buffa's Faces 'noise' Lawsuit," Gambit, July 3, 2014, accessed December 19, 2014, http://www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans/archives/2014/07/03/mimis-in-the-marigny-cancels-live-music-buffas-faces-noise-lawsuit. However, musicians have not ignored this...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...located east and west of downtown. Although most were common laborers, a small number, perhaps less than ten percent, stood above the masses by virtue of their occupation, education, or...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
..."Vanishing" Texan and the retrenchment of Texas masculinity. In "You a Real Cowboy?: Texas Chic in the Late Seventies," he reviews the iconic films The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...home, this time offering to take her to where she’ll find her father. In an eerily powerful scene of movement in a small boat across a moonlit swamp, the women...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...say there are five thousand Creek speakers left, but nobody seems to know where that number comes from, and many suggest there are only a few hundred speakers, some even far fewer....
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...demeanor of Parks's subjects belies the injustice of the "separate but unequal"1Charlayne Hunter-Gault, "Doing the Best We Could with What We Had," in Gordon Parks: Segregation Story (Göttingen, Germany: Steidl,...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...significantly, people who come from Wikipedia clock enough time on our site that they seem to be reading—they don’t just click-and-leave. I hope this reflects two things: first, that at...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...time, the confusions of identity I'm describing counter, at least as much as they shore up, Jacksonian nationalist certainties. In standing uncertainly at best on Native southern ground, the Jane...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...prison; by the 1990s, the incarceration rate had more than doubled, making African Americans seven times as likely as whites to do jail time.5Christopher J. Lyons and Becky Pettit, “Compounded...