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...
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...
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....
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...installation begins in front of a home in the Old Fourth Ward. In the early 1960s, Styles briefly belonged to a black gay male social club called the Jolly Twelve....
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...
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...
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...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the myth that black people were biologically, intellectually, and socially inferior to whites—these intellectuals sought to refute this myth through their writings and publications. By...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...a critical mass in New Orleans. He believed marijuana "was as habit forming as morphine or cocaine" and that "constant smoking will ruin the health."12"New Drug Habit Rapidly Growing, Health...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...a public health series covering the pandemic: https://southernspaces.org/2022/covid-19-lessons-ignorance/. Far too much had to be cobbled together on the fly in early 2020 largely because of prior organizational neglect. And far...