Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...style featuring predominately Black subjects in everyday life. Influenced by James Van Der Zee and Roy DeCarava, Bey spent much of his career photographing Black faces. Looking through images from...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...research on Latinx migration, settlement, and everyday experiences.1Raymond Mohl, “Globalization, Latinization, and the Nuevo New South,” Journal of American Ethnic History 22, no. 4 (2003): 31–66. While scholarly writing such...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...from "pedestrian, unpretentious, and utterly unexceptional" (21) origins as Rue Bourbon in the eighteenth century to its present-day renown as "a signature street, one that [speaks] on behalf of the...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...by that upheaval and diversity. What is "southern studies" today, well into the twenty-first century, in the age of the global-superpower United States? Whatever it is, we think it is...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...today's Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida—were central to early American knowledge production. At first glance the image appears to be a familiar allegory of Europe's conquest of the Americas. It...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...a way of looking at things in the world. In a documentary for BBC television, he remembered "I had been working down in Oxford or Holly Springs, [Mississippi,] one day,...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...incomes of less than two dollars per person per day—a benchmark for developing countries.4 Paul Tough, "The Birthplace of Obama the Politician," New York Times Magazine, August 19, 2012, 31. Peter...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...white supremacy—deserted and superfluous. Today, physical evidence of Jim Crow's imprint on southern state parks is hard to find, except in the racial demographics of park users, which remain overwhelmingly...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...built environment and the experiences of its inhabitants—mark the city's particularities. Increasing numbers of cars, trolleys, buses, and taxis enabled movement between downtown and suburbs; rural and urban areas; "colored"...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...of the 1960s and economically to this day. When, in 1865, Union troops began to move into the defeated slave states of the Confederacy, under the auspices of a few...