Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...for the complex dynamic that makes up Cajun culture. James Peck, Jim Driscoll and Mercer Hathorn shooting for Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story, Lake Martin, Louisiana, 2006. Today, Cajun and Creole...
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...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...like the real pioneers in the nineteenth century, who came as a kind of spillover of the mountain settlement to the east.32Harington, Let Us Build Us a City: Eleven Lost...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Atlanta. As Atlanta's black population grew in the 1950s and 1960s, city officials became concerned about "the prospect of a Negro majority in the city."1In May 1966, "the Atlanta Journal...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...cameras into a series of 360-degree videos.3Janko Roettgers, "Google Is Shutting Down Its Jump VR Video Program," Variety (blog), May 18, 2019, https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/google-jump-shutting-down-1203219306/. We used the Sennheiser Ambeo VR microphone...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...not an American city. It was a Caribbean city. Once you recalibrate, it becomes the best governed, cleanest, most efficient, and best-educated city in the Caribbean. New Orleans is actually...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...“Night Coming Tenderly, Black” The title of my review comes from a line in Saidiya Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection where she argues for the “opacity” of “black song” as a...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...percent is white, and almost 25 percent self-identifies as "Hispanic."5US Bureau of the Census, "Forest City, Mississippi, Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics, 2010," accessed December 23, 2013, http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_DP_DPDP1....
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...many US officials were aware of those numbers. Nonetheless, US leaders who visited postwar Japan retained the impression that masses of people who were poorly dressed and homeless, including orphans...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), 10. Along with the automobile, telephone, and electricity, radio emerged as a key technological component in the negotiations between rural people and government agencies over...