Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Nova Scotia, the Acadians (Cajuns) were forced from their homes and the country, with a large contingent eventually settling in southern Louisiana. There they encountered—and intermixed with—other peoples of the...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...particular place can only produce a limited number of marketable artists) and, to a lesser degree, speculative exploration (that going to obscure places might yield a novel interpretation of the...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
Introduction The True Image explores the history and output of Scotch-Irish stonecutters in the early backcountry of Pennsylvania and the Carolinas. For none of them do we have any personal...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Pride Houston. There were two queer bookstores, a free monthly magazine, and several free weekly papers. Soon, I was working for one of those papers, distributing copies all over the...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...of a Sunbelt City that “everywhere you look, cities big and small are trying to get in touch with their inner Austin" (2). Yet as Tretter forcefully argues, the sunny portrayals...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...fathers to sons and in the supposedly free exchange of affectional ties between a male and female of his choice—becomes the mythically revered privilege of a free and freed community"...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Freedom Movement (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003). For years, the women of SCLC were relegated to stereotypically “female” positions within the organization, serving mainly as secretaries and...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...powder form against insect pests across the country, especially in the South, where health departments and agricultural interests hailed it as an authentically American "wonder drug" poised to bring the...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...of the Ohio, together numbered approximately one hundred thousand troops as they approached the city, but only about twenty-seven thousand of them fought in the Battle of Atlanta.11Woodworth, Nothing But...