The Colonialist's Gaze
Presentation Closer Reading: Three Images from the Presentation Panorama of Armstrong standing at the summit of Signal Hill. Image courtesy of Lanny Thompson, 2017. Standing at the summit of Signal...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...crawl. In 1878 the Virginia legislature chartered the Peninsula Railroad Company to build a line along the Eastern Shore, but four years later local promoters were still waiting for the...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...across multiple countries and time zones. Some collaborating editors work in low-tech environments, sharing lists as Microsoft Word documents. Others have found online platforms that modify PDFs and provide advanced...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...History of Folklife Research in Louisiana." affording the genre "authenticity and legitimacy."19As quoted in Ibid. The experience politicized Dewey Balfa, who came home a devout cultural nationalist. In 1974 Balfa...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...sold and that she is running away to save her child" from Uncle Tom's Cabin. Read together, the "loyalist" plantation romance and the "fugitive" slave narrative speak to one another...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...through discourses around immigration and work, in recent decades relying upon tropes of the "immigrant work ethic," racially-coded language about "lazy" workers, and the socio-economic category of "labor shortages." We...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...liberal-nationalist elites to form coalitions with them and to decree freedom from above. Instead, inside courts of law, they usually sought relief in the custom-centered colonial legal framework. In Santiago,...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...glumly as he read them a long list of criticisms and demands that included a call for the board's mass resignation in protest of the court order. Kasper also announced...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...consider a "totality of circumstances" in Section 2 cases:2The order in which Justice Alito listed his "guideposts" has been slightly altered here. I list his third item second for purposes...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...Bridge, Louisiana, 1986. GAUTREAUX: I think the people associated with USL (now UL) got the public in touch with Cajun culture, and then Vermilionville and Cajun Village and the promotion...