History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...Shooting Leaves 10 Wounded, 2 Critically, Tourism Image Scarred," NOLA.com, June 30, 2014, http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/06/bourbon_street_gunfight_leaves.html; Helen Freund, "Bourbon Street Shooting Victim, 21, Dies," NOLA.com, July 2, 2014, http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/07/bourbon_street_shooting_victim.html. For many, the...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...be transacted and manipulated. Two highly charged objects--the automobile in which the victims are transported, and the doll used to represent Dorothy Dorsey’s unborn baby--help to mediate relations between the...
Imprinting This Place: Rob Amberg's Documentary Journey
...of Latino immigrants, as well as more people who identify as bi- or multi-racial.14Around 3.5% of the county's population identifies as Latino or Hispanic, and 5% as “two or more...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...bathe in the fellowship of family. A Celine Dion impersonator infuses the room with the "Power of Love." Subversive, camp, queer, you think, as the drag performer lip-syncs the words,...
Besieged Terrain
...wildlife. Because it uses heavy equipment, mountain top removal employs relatively few people. And because it's very profitable, the technique has spread. MTR has destroyed more than 1.4 million acres,...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...was westward. Steel discusses the causes and consequences of migration into the Chattahoochee Valley and much of western Georgia in the decades leading to the first publication of The Sacred...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...North Carolina, for a wedding and observed the aftermath of that September's devastating floods resulting from the torrential rains of Hurricane Floyd. Shells of houses stood spray-painted with large Xs....
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...the nave now houses documents, memorabilia, and artifacts relating to the trials. Punctuated by train whistles and the noise of freight cars rolling past—along the same route that carried the...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...recreational houses, churches, and water fountains, and blacks had to ride on the back of buses" (58). In 1950, after years of protest, the federal government built a black neighborhood...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...States. It lives in people, some of whom have no knowledge of its origins but cope with the ever-present longing and lack it causes."1"Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope," Georgetown...