Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
Rebuilding the Land of Dreams Video Part 2: Spitzer discusses “The Basin Street Blues” and prominent representations of New Orleanians in the realms of work and play Part 3: Spitzer discusses how...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...Louisiana plants from corporate offices, out to central research and development facilities, off to California refineries, back again to take the helm of a plant somewhere else along the river;...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...Rare Book Library recently acquired several independent black comic book series as part of a concerted effort to expand the African American periodicals collection. The three-volume trade paperback Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline is...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...a cultural backlash against the political gains of African Americans, women, and Chicanos at the state and national level. Mellard's account does not consider how the performance of machismo can...
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,...
The Border South
...shape these states increasingly were understood and understood themselves as on the border. They contained various sub regions and economies, but all allowed and, indeed, promoted slavery. Virginia, for example,...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers." Southern Spaces, December 21, 2007, https://southernspaces.org/2007/geographies-hope-and-despair-atlantas-african-american-latino-and-white-day-laborers. Frederickson, Mary E. "Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South." Southern Spaces, December...
Bodies and Souls
...people, 96% of whom are African American, is a half hour from Clarksdale, a town of twenty thousand. Jonestown has one elementary school and sends its older students to schools in...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
Review I remember well seeing Charles Moore's fire hose photographs from Birmingham in my hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Six-years old in 1963, I had little understanding of the day's...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...color—primarily African Americans and Hispanics. African American (43.4 percent) and Hispanic (34.4 percent) students make up 78 percent of the total enrollment of the one hundred school districts in the...