Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...neighborhood, New Orleans, LA, February 19, 2011. Photograph by Derek Bridges. Mobility is a principal point of departure for Sakakeeny's understanding of brass bands within contemporary New Orleans. For any...
Old oak, Conway, South Carolina, 2008
Substantiation
And the way the jury chose to believe the ridiculous stories of the defense. . . —Mamie Till, 1955 . . .with truth absent, hypocrisy and myth have flourished. ....
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...assumption that there's an elephant at the other end of scholarly inquiry: a thing to be known—ideally, at any rate—in ways that are comprehensive and accurate. South? Ivory Text photograph...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...beauty and cultural vitality. Photographers, many of them the genre’s leading lights, have crisscrossed the Delta and Bayou throughout the twentieth-century producing an iconic body of work. One thinks of...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...the other way to west, to wilderness, to where the future waits to open out its shining promise, destiny. Backwater meant new water then, where greatness waited, tilted toward the...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...site above McRoberts, Kentucky, 2005. The Old Road had once been the only way to Charleston, before the four-lane highway — still new to Lydde — went in. They wound...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Charles Davenport's testimony many years later in the WPA narratives offers a glimpse of what one recruiter ran up against at Aventine Plantation, on the other side of Second Creek....
When the Border Crossed Me
...marketing that there was no way I could pick everything I could sell. Orders had piled up, and the farmers' market was just a few days away. The small group...
Midway, Orangeburg, South Carolina, 2008