History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...of the Street's changing cultural geography. Campanella chronicles several social and cultural developments that helped transform the strip: racial segregation and desegregation, the changing soundscape, the ubiquity of souvenir shops,...
Palomares Bajo
...others have called the worst nuclear weapons disaster in history. It is sparked by new reports showing continuing elevated levels of radioactivity in and around Palomares and with Wiki-leaked cables...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
Presentation Part 2: Gwin explores temporal and spatial dimensions of mourning, posing questions of how to mourn and celebrate Evers Part 3: Gwin situates aesthetic and ethical responses from Baldwin,...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...South" is precisely the assumptions that have accumulated around it, the conceptual baggage generated by earlier generations of scholarship and popular belief that, arguably, has served to obscure as much...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...a staged work. Guarracino noted further that "publication of Imoinda in Italy, home of opera, with an Italian translation" shook "the very ground of Italian opera as it is known in...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...Philip C. Kolin notes, at forty-seven, Trethewey is "the youngest writer to have a special issue [of the journal] focused on her achievements."1Philip C. Kolin, "Editor's Introduction: The Triple Crown,"...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...the firm's facilities, equipment, and vast collection of negatives. Around that time, historian and Ybor City native Tony Pizzo purchased one hundred of the negatives that documented his hometown. By...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...home, Walnut, North Carolina. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Like all newcomers, I was often greeted by, "You ain't from around here?" And, people were right to ask, to question...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...in New Orleans. It was my first trip into the city after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and I had been touring a friend around landscapes and cityscapes that I...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...devoted to ensuring that the names and relations of the makers would be remembered. The number of quilts and the care with which they were labeled suggests that she thought...