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...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
...of the national self into its ‘southern other’” Part 5: Greeson discusses the focus of national writers on the internal “Plantation South” About Jennifer Rae Greeson received her PhD in American...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
...beauty and technical skill of his poems is a profound intervention into our ongoing conversations about race and social justice. His body of work represents a bold and necessary challenge...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...
The Morning with Many Tongues
Readings Sean Hill reads the poem "Just as Sure." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "Nigger Street 1937." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "The State House Aflame 1833." Poem text....
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...districts. Patterns of Segregation Social scientists use multiple measures of segregation trends in education. In the Atlanta Metro region measures of racial isolation reveal changes in district-level racial composition between...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...of Pacific Rim communities, biological and cultural features of distinct regions, and in interdependence of all life along the Pacific Rim."1For a little of the bioregional history of Poet Townsend's...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...Oklahoma twisters. While the United States experiences more tornadoes than anywhere else on earth, these storms also occur further south of the infamous Tornado Alley. Parts of Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama,...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...Mardi Gras, New Orleans’s quintessential event, briefly contrasting elite visions of an orderly ritual of power with the cheerful anarchy of carnival in the street. The contrast, he suggests, is...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...During Tom’s tenure as director, CDS has become an internationally recognized documentary arts institution, annually offering many undergraduate courses and continuing education classes leading to certificates. Integral to these educational...