Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...New Orleans musicians have drawn on their experiences of living in a flood plain Part 4: Spitzer explores the cultural importance of the city’s musical and building arts, featuring an interview...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...to collect oral histories across the United States. I am also indebted to an anonymous reviewer for bringing my attention to The New Orleans Dyke Bar History Project, accessed October...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
..."Politicians to Eat 'Possum. The Supper at Newnan to Be a Unique Affair," The Morning News News (Savannah, GA), Dec. 28, 1897, 2, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063034/1897-12-28/ed-1/seq-2/. Located about forty miles southwest of...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Banner, August 17, 1832, p. 3. Athens Historic Newspapers Archive, Digital Library of Georgia. The drums turned from late October 1832 through April 1833. Publications broadcast the names, counties, and lot...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...given a detailed schedule after landing in San Francisco. From there, he was told, he would head south via Los Angeles, change trains at New Orleans, stay in Mississippi (Jackson,...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...honor: Part historic preservation, part act of defiance, the spray-painted markings of Katrina rescue workers remain prominently displayed on many reoccupied New Orleans homes." New Orleans Times-Picayune, July 24, 2007....
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...possibilities where new ideas about the disease and its cure emerged, the boundaries between colonial possession and the imperial state blurred, and new medicalized stereotypes about populations were forged, transformed,...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...E. Staub, Voices of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (London and New...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
The dual attraction of New Orleans. From Katie Gillett, The Post-Grad Hipster's Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities, 2011. Since I left New Orleans for good in 2007, I hear more...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...in Appalachia (New York: New Press, 2004). Union contracts eroded along with wages and benefits. Social relationships changed. Workers were thrown into competition with other workers, often of different race...