The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
...how legislators and lobbyists have encouraged the growth of the state’s prison population through financial incentives over the last two decades, causing Louisiana to become the world leader in incarceration....
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...were portrayed. Duval News Company, Old Slave Market, St. Augustine, Fla., Oldest City in the United States, c. 1915, recto. Collection of the Author. From "St. Augustine's 'Slave Market': A...
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,...
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
...August 23 to August 30, 2005, Hurricane Katrina stormed though New Orleans, causing the levees to break, devastating a large part of the Crescent City. To mark the seventh anniversary...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
...the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton University Press, 2007), examines segregationist politics in the state generally considered to be the most recalcitrant. He proposes that white Mississippians were key actors in a...
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...