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A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans

Review In the acknowledgements for The Accidental City, Lawrence N. Powell remembers that, after Hurricane Katrina, pundits asked why New Orleans should be rebuilt, when its site was clearly untenable...

Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground

Review Rowan County Court House and Jail, Salisbury, North Carolina, circa 1905-1915. Courtesy of the Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards, North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at...

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Developed for teachers, students, and researchers, educational resources gather Southern Spaces publications into several fields of knowledge. Featuring well-crafted articles, videos, reviews, interviews, and digital projects, these continuously updated collections...

"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying

Review To borrow a line from Joel and Ethan Coen's seminal slacker classic, The Big Lebowski, James Franco "draws a lotta water in this town."1 If you don't believe me,...

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

Review The image on the front cover of New Deal Ruins reverberates prophetically. In March 1972, after only two decades of occupancy, the first of Pruitt-Igoe's thirty-three public housing towers...

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

Review "Lynching of Negroes is growing to be a southern pastime," declared the Reverend D. A. Graham of the A.M.E. church in a sermon preached in Indianapolis, Indiana, as part...

"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi

Review In this meticulously researched book, Katherine M. B. Osburn follows the history of the Mississippi Choctaws from the Antebellum era to the "Choctaw Miracle" of the 1970s, when this...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

Review In Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling across the Rio Grande, George T. Díaz addresses the US-Mexico borderland's tawdry reputation, recently refueled by unsubstantiated stories about cocaine packed into...

American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast

Review Bohemia Spillway New Distributary, Mardi Gras Pass, March 2012. Photograph by the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. Courtesy of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. A curious thing happened in Louisiana...

References
1.	Nathaniel Rich, "The most ambitious environmental lawsuit ever," New York Times Magazine, October 2, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/02/magazine/mag-oil-lawsuit.html.
2.	R. Eugene Turner, "Wetland Loss in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Multiple Working Hypotheses," Estuaries 20, no. 1 (1997): 1–13.
3.	Haigler (Dusty) Pate, "Quantifying and Prioritizing Opportunities for Canal Backfilling in Louisiana" (Masters thesis, Duke University, 2014), 55. See also Sue Sturgis, "Looting Louisiana: How the Jindal administration is helping Big Oil rip off a cash-strapped state," Southern Studies, May 7, 2015, http://www.southernstudies.org/2015/05/looting-louisiana-how-the-jindal-administration-is.html. Even some oil and gas firms thought themselves to be under-regulated: "A 1979 Shell memo acknowledged that its waste pits flagrantly violated numerous federal and state environmental rules but blamed 'slackness' on the part of state enforcement agencies for creating 'a mood of operational indifference.'" Ken Silverstein, "Dirty South: The foul legacy of Louisiana oil," Harper's, November 2013, 4.
4.	Gwen Ottinger, "Peopling Petrochemical America: A Review," Southern Spaces, November 26, 2013, https://southernspaces.org/2013/petrochemical-america-petrochemical-addiction#ottinger.
5.	See Sturgiss, "Looting Louisiana"; Silverstein, "Dirty South"; "Looting Louisiana: A Primer," YouTube video, 13:27, posted by Mike Stagg, May 2, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r8mZIhEg4s&feature=youtu.be; and Richard Thompson, "Legislative Auditor: Louisiana missing out on hundreds of millions of dollars from oil and gas incentive," The New Orleans Advocate, August 25, 2015.
6.	Similarly, some authors depict the swampy coast as harboring a terrible evil. For instance, H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Call of Cthulhu," first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928.
7.	See also, Adam Mandelman, "Wetlands as Borderlands: Where Land and Water Meet," Porous Places blog, June 1, 2012, http://www.adammandelman.net/2012/06/01/borderlands.
8.	See Peirce Lewis, New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape (Chicago: Center for American Places, 2003); Craig Colten, An Unnatural Metropolis: Wrestling New Orleans from Nature (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006); Richard Campanella, Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans (Lafayette: University of Louisiana, 2008); and Lawrence N. Powell, The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013).
9.	There is an extensive literature exploring the South as systemically "underdeveloped" in relation to the rest of the country. See Mona Domosh, "Practising Development at Home: Race, Gender, and the 'Development' of the American South," Antipode 47, no. 4 (2015): 915–941.
10.	Lewis, New Orleans.
11.	David Batker, S. Mack, F. Sklar, W. Nuttle, M. Kelly, and A.M. Freeman, "The Importance of the Mississippi Delta Restoration on the Local and National Economies," in Perspectives on the Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: The Once and Future Delta, eds. J.W. Day, G.P. Kemp, A.M. Freeman, and D. P. Muth (New York: Springer, 2014), 141–153.
12.	A political position which derives in part what the US Environmental Protection Agency called "a culture in which [the Department of Natural Resources] is expected to protect industry." Silverstein, "Dirty South," 54.

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