Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...police uniforms, wheeling shopping carts through the flood. These are the lingering images I suspect most folks carry of southern Louisiana. Southern Louisianans speak of "before Katrina" and "after Katrina";...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...for best film, and Quvenzhané Wallis, his spunky, firebreathing star, may be crowned best actress. In the movie she plays the part of one of Louisiana's Katrina-surviving, throwaway children, but...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...the same with the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina compounded by the indifference and ineptitude of our government. —Gwen Magee Requiem represents another example of Magee's reactions to current events,...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...approach to food equity would address an equity of labor and care within the Black domestic space irrespective of gender, class, or sexuality. Katrina Sanders, coordinator for North Bolivar County...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
Introduction Geographic location is one characteristic of place fundamental to understanding the economic structure of Memphis and the city's role as a major distribution node in the global economy. Memphis...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...well-received in the local market and bore a strong New Orleans stylistic imprint. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina dealt this grassroots rap scene a hard blow. While some artists and producers...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...also been highly uneven. Until Hurricane Katrina and the need for cheap immigrant labor to rebuild New Orleans, for instance, Louisiana had little Latino population growth. Within the historic “Black...
Geography
...won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her third collection, Native Guard. Her latest work, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf, was released in 2010. Natasha serves as a...
Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Trethewey discusses “Signs, Oakvale, Missisippi, 1941” and “Flounder” as well as landscapes in Gulfport and New Orleans Part 3: Trethewey discusses “Monument,” “Elegy for the Native...