Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...locales, with most of their emphasis on New England and the US West. Otis L. Graham in "Again the Backward Region?" (2000), Mart Stewart, in "Southern Environmental History" (2002), and...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...to the east, rather than the white neighborhoods to the north and west, reveals discrimination most clearly. Tretter argues university administrators employed a “racist theory of value,” which assumes “that...
Mapping Souths
...slogan, often in projects of decompressing space and time against modernity's late encroachments. As deterritorialization proceeds apace, efforts to reterritorialize—to reproduce place and locality—are increasingly mobilized under the aegis of...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...variation in income-mobility across the US States's "commuting zones." Unsurprisingly, parts of the US South did not make a good showing in terms of upward mobility. The study proposes that...
The Bulletin—June 26, 2012
...of rebuilding wetlands on the Louisiana coast. Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann is seeking federal approval for the state's new voter ID law (House Bill 921). Hosemann is in...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
The New Orleans-based Amistad Research Center is the nation's oldest, largest, and most comprehensive independent archive specializing in African American history and culture. For the first time in its history,...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...Despite this first attempt, Foster Auditorium remains the University's most visible symbol of desegregation. Warren K. Leffler, Governor George Wallace attempting to block integration at the University of Alabama and...
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...having populations of 100,000 or more. There were fourteen: Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, and Montgomery in Alabama; Little Rock in Arkansas; Baton Rouge, Lafayette, New Orleans, and Shreveport in Louisiana; Jackson...
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
...work About Michael Bibler Michael Bibler received his PhD from Tulane University and is associate professor at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Cotton's Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...