Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...story of Passover. http://web.archive.org/web/20100910022812/http://blogservices.net/ss/index.php Cynthia Scott, New Orleans, Louisiana. Artist. Scott has photographed extensively in her Faubourg St. John neighborhood, and produced numerous installations and sculptures from post-Katrina debris. http://Cynthiascott2000.com...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...Park Between 1907 and 1911, at least six versions of this particular image circulated on Ponce de Leon Park postcards.23See Atlanta History Center, Atlanta Postcard Collection. Another version Souvenir postcards...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...Observations about Ash Management," (Knoxville, TN: TVA Office of the Inspector General), http://web.knoxnews.com/pdf/072809tva-inspectorgeneralreport.pdf; Shaila Dewan, "T.V.A. to Pay $43 Million on Projects in Spill Area," New York Times, September 14, 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/us/15ash.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all. The...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...visitors were forced to pile on top of one another in positions evoking the Middle Passage, while Bishop would sing to them. Some accounts describe boatfuls of tourists joining in...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...money owed him. He called the person's cell phone and was promised payment, but he never received it. Staff at the hiring hall in Duluth's Calvary Christian Fellowship assisted José,...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009). If discovered in such venues, military personnel faced certain punishment, if not discharge.16Gohlke, "Off-Limits." A native white Texan and...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...Woody Guthrie's very personal politics. This violent event is played against the backdrop of a conversation regarding the possible causes of his mother's decline. Amongst the candidates is Woody himself....
Unquiet Emmett Till
...His footnotes cite one letter each from the sympathetic towns, none from the disinterested one. Or again, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published two very pointed letters to the editor after the...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...as pathologically aggressive, rather than rightfully angry.4Jonathan M. Metzl, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2010). Besides Peter McCandless's study of insanity in...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...bounce, in particular, is showing signs of a full-blown revival.11Holly Hobbs and Alison Fensterstock, "New Orleans Hiphop and Bounce Storytelling, Preservation, and Place in Post-Katrina" (paper presented at the Music...