Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...empty basketball court. Playground and Shell Refinery, Norco, Louisiana, 1998. Photograph by Richard Misrach. Courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; and Marc Selwyn. © Richard Misrach....
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
.../ I speak to you. / I am a person, I am a person and that is enough.” “Playtime,” also from 1982, includes a round-like chorus: “Playtime / Run until...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...this project from a Faulkner background, and those from a more technical, digital humanities background. This digital work provides the opportunity for established Faulkner scholars such as Jay Watson at...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...wicker basket being passed around. I think it's safe to say nobody here's gonna be splitting the atom, Marty."12Cary Joji Fukunaga, "The Locked Room," True Detective (HBO, January 12, 2014),...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...as its various members move around the state of Texas while always staying within each other's orbits. One antecedent for this project is François Truffaut's series of films following the...
Mississippi Delta
...as formative as any factor in shaping the life and culture of the Delta. Native Americans lived on the land that became known as the Delta from around 1000 B.C....
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...of minutes, the chaotic scene turned deadly. Steps away from his mother, a thirteen year-old-white boy lay motionless on the ground, bleeding profusely from the head. A few hours later,...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...in engaging the digital humanities as something I wanted to build into my historical toolbox was when my advisor Ed Ayers came back from a 2005 trip to Dallas. He...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...that left people who were unemployed or homeless without access to relief.5"Gov. Kemp Announces First Round of This Year's Special Tax Refund," Department of Revenue, May 1, 2023, https://dor.georgia.gov/press-releases/2023-05-01/gov-kemp-announces-first-round-years-special-tax-refund#:~:text=Single%20filers%20and%20married%20individuals,a%20maximum%20refund%20of%20%24500. Free99fridge...
The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...