Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...migrants is part of what demographers are calling the New Great Migration,15Dan Bilefsky, "For New Life, Blacks in City Head to South," New York Times, June 22, 2011, A1, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/nyregion/many-black-new-yorkers-are-moving-to-the-south.html;...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...and the Mainsprings of American Politics (New York: New Press, 1997); Jeffrey S. Lowe and Todd C. Shaw, "After Katrina: Racial Regimes and Human Development Barriers in the Gulf Coast...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
Introduction In 2003, Raymond Mohl’s description of the “latinization” of the late twentieth century US South (the “Nuevo New South”) helped set the stage for an expanding body of cross-disciplinary...
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...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...Yeller (New York: Harper & Bros., 1956). Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows (New York: Laurel-Leaf Books, 1961). William Armstrong, Sounder (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1969). It wasn't...
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...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...America and the world. Masahiro Sumori, Congo Square today, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2006. Sculptural tributes to New Orleans musical history greats are scattered throughout the park, most of them in...
Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
...as the “forgotten pandemic,” COVID-19 took place in an era of global connection and social media, allowing for new audiences and shared artistic production. While scientists worked to understand the...
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,...
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...