Zircon
Poem Zircon When my great-uncles dug for zircons on the mountainside and on the pasture hill a hundred years ago they'd no idea the little crystal bit they sought would...
The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
...election results. The New Orleans Times-Picayune is three weeks into a powerful eight-part series entitled "Louisiana Incarcerated: How We Built the World’s Prison Capital." Cindy Chang offers an overview of...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...Dorman and Charles Reagan Wilson (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998), 38; Jack Temple Kirby, Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920–1960 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987). Perhaps that...
Mapping Souths
...the Age of Cultural Reproduction (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008) is reprinted by permission of the author. For ordering information visit the LSU Press page for The Real South....
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...busted upwards of twelve men since 2011 with Louisiana's outdated sodomy law. According to the Baton Rouge Advocate, the department sent male undercover officers to cruise for men in Manchac...
The Bulletin—June 26, 2012
...West Bay at the mouth of the Mississippi in the lower Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. The Corps now plans to use sediment dredged from the river to accomplish the same goal...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...lives or were displaced by Hurricane Katrina, many of whom remain unable to return. Furthermore, while rap music is arguably Louisiana's most lucrative cultural export, in the most widespread images...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...was seventeen, Campbell was ordained to be a Baptist preacher. After high school, he briefly attended Louisiana College in Pineville before joining the US Army in 1942; while still in...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...had become 100 percent black by 2005 (98). The Iberville Homes sat on appreciating land near the French Quarter and Louisiana State University's planned biomedical and hospital complex. For business...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...