History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...who view it as "iniquitous, crass, phony, and offensive" (xiii). This reductive pro-/anti-Bourbon framework elides the complicated, reciprocal processes of touristification and criminalization that prompts investment in tourist spaces and...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...fireworks. Our guide said that sometimes, the land still let go of fragments from the war—a gold button, a bullet, a tooth migrating to the surface. We searched around. On...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
The US South in Global Contexts
...McPherson "Wal-Mart Goes Global" Part 5: Dr. Barbara Ellen Smith "Rethinking Southern Communities" Part 6: Jamie Winders "Latino Migration and Nashville, Tennessee" Part 7: Eric Gray Anderson "Framing Indian Removal"...
Work
...of doffers and fixers, of motion. I dream thread streaming from cotton icicles mounted on frames. Spinning dripping cones feeding hungry looms that pulse and ripple as they weave. Shuttles...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US Part 3: Greeson explores...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Jim (and Jane) Crow. Mississippi Praying contends that white congregations in Mississippi neither escaped the fray nor were they indifferent. White evangelical faith helped make and maintain the social order...
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...
The Place of Appalachia
...recognized this reality. Rick Simon, for example, employing a Marxist framework, asserted that Appalachia represented a spatialized manifestation of class exploitation.1Richard M. Simon, "Regions and Social Relations: A Research Note,"...
Birdhouses
...drastically reshaped the landscape to make the two ponds one. The contrast between birdhouse and backdrop seemed significant, and framing it in the Holga's viewfinder, I saw sanctuary against foreboding...