"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...prejudices against prominent whites who occasionally consumed this lowly scavenger. The American persimmon tree (Diospyros virginiana)—an early invading species in disturbed areas and along forest-pasture boundaries—was common throughout the opossum's...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...of the region in 1770 and readily distributed land-grants to Americans to protect the territory from the British. France similarly used “Louisiana” strategically, and after re-establishing control of the region,...
Remnants of Flannery
...Wise Blood, was memorably brought to the screen in 1980 by filmmaker John Huston. Atlanta's Good Country Pictures has acquired the film rights to many of O'Connor's texts, planning to...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...members of her community, many who sought their freedom by way of fugitive paths, to love themselves, fully and deeply, precisely because of the white world outside the safety of...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...of Cuba—the region which this book focuses on—many were only partially free. They had paid a portion of the price for their manumission while continuing to do some work for...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...first name used, given that surnames are usually inscribed on Mount Zion–FUBS headstones? Possibly because the child was buried within an extant family plot that was obscured through the relocation...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...smoke, and their role in the inferno similarly obscure, the machine and its operator assume a ghostly presence. The tension between darkness and light, the heavenly and hellish, the spectral...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...lyrics of this hyper-masculinized genre, women were infrequently represented. When they were, it was within a schema where the only positive model was that of the older, self-sacrificing single mother....
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...a genre called Louisiana apocalyptic noir.3Each Louisiana-based HBO depiction offers smart and problematic depictions. Treme, particularly, lovingly (and perhaps cruelly) recreates the immediate years after Katrina, from drooping ceiling fans...