The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman A popular tourist attraction in New Orleans today is the "Moonwalk," a brick-paved promenade stretching along the Mississippi riverfront from the Covention...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003); Robert Weems, Jr., Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century (New York: New York University Press, 1998); Victoria Wolcott, Race,...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...boys. When construction in the park cut off an irrigation line, however, the newly planted trees dried up and died. This story is nothing new. Landscape theorist Anne Whiston Spirn...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...and Black [University of Georgia], 26 August 2002, Variety [http://www.redandblack.com/variety/drive-in-sets-up-shop/article_315c98ee-0c48-5325-b725-87c879d0c3fb.html]; Danielle Hutlas, "Mazes more than corn," The Red and Black [University of Georgia], 13 October 2005, Out and About [http://web.archive.org/web/20090113172411/http://media.www.redandblack.com/media/storage/paper871/news/2005/10/13/OutAbout/Mazes.More.Than.Corn-2570682.shtml]....
A Green Democratic Revolution
...Green New Deal in terms of a "Green Democratic Revolution" as a new front in the radicalization of democracy that redefines democratic principles and then extends them to new fields...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Michele Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: New Press, 2012); Rhonda Y. Williams, "'We Refuse!': Privatization, Housing, and Human Rights," in Freedom...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...Eugenical News.62See for example, Koya, “The Program for Family Planning in Japan,” Eugenical News 38, n. 1 (March 1953): 1-3; “A Study of Induced Abortion in Japan and Its Significance,”...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...Emancipation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003); Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present (New York: Basic Books,...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...1902). Top, Edward Albert Batson, New Orleans Daily Picayune, 1902. Batson was found guilty of murder and executed. Bottom, Sheriff Perkins and deputy Fontenot, Batson's Louisiana escorts. New Orleans Daily Picayune, 1902. Images...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...days—the government inspection steamer, Mississippi, and John Newton, and a couple of others: in New Orleans we'd see the Delta Queen or the Gordon C. Green. My father knew the...