Love and Death at Second-Line
...Bar. We were at the end of the second-line for Tuba Fats' huge jazz funeral just over a week ago Sunday. Band members were leaving as conversation and memories of...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...In a time when so many people happily treat every new music video, online commentary, Presidential tweet, and podcast like S-Town as a revolutionary event, McLemore resists any easy classification...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...to hold back spring floods come immediately to mind. Heaped with cotton bales and hogsheads of sugar, these manmade levees were famous for their babble of bustle and clamor. But...
The Liminal Site
...to become part of an extensive network of linear parks across the metropolitan region. Birmingham skyline through the white oaks. Birmingham, Alabama, March 21, 2008. Photograph by Jon Smith. The...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans Matt Sakakeeny traces the celebrated and contested political and economic terrain where brass bands make music that defines the city. In Sakakeeny's...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...in front of a table with weapons with the caption, "taken from Negro demonstrators." The photograph showed ice picks, a baseball bat, and other weapons, and suggested to readers that...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...on area ballots, white flight had produced a black majority inside the city limits and white majorities that exceeded ninety-five percent in the suburban counties of Cobb, Gwinnett and Clayton....
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...Dark Career of Henry Baldwin(Philadelphia: E. Elmer Barclay, 1853). At the heart of the anonymously published novella is Henry Baldwin, who narrates the story and appears in the opening paragraph...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...health and life."36Jane Stafford, "Insect War May Backfire," Science News Letter, August 5, 1944, 90; Bob Jones, "DDT: Handle with Care," Better Homes and Gardens, November 1945, 10. Local coverage...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...can Memphis address the deeply entrenched color line while responding to new color lines whose boundaries are still being formed? What transformations are required of southern studies to account for...