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;...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...on.1Shortly before Hurricane Katrina, Montana collapsed and died in front of the city council while defending New Orleans’s Mardi Gras Indian traditions against police harassment. There is an iconic statute...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, Social Research Report Series 93–95 (Mississippi State: Social Science Research Center of Mississippi State University, 1993), 15. Marty Bahamonde, FEMA image of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, 2005. Even...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...space irrespective of gender, class, or sexuality. Katrina Sanders, coordinator for North Bolivar County Good Food Revolution youth leadership development, sits with NBCGFR members at organization headquarters, Mound Bayou, Mississippi,...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...a genre called Louisiana apocalyptic noir.3Each Louisiana-based HBO depiction offers smart and problematic depictions. Treme, particularly, lovingly (and perhaps cruelly) recreates the immediate years after Katrina, from drooping ceiling fans...
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...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
1926 Pharus Map of Berlin, Andrew Battista’s "Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: a Review of Hypercities," September 15, 2015. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces. Beginnings How did you become...