Lsu Press imprint: 854 books
How the South Joined the Gambling Nation
The Politics of State Policy Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
A national map of legalized gambling from 1963 would show one state, Nevada, with casino gambling and no states with lotteries. Today's map shows eleven commercial casino states, most of them along the Mississippi River, forty-two states with state-owned lotteries, and racetrack betting, slot-machine...
The Real South
Southern Narrative in the Age of Cultural Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
In this stimulating study, Scott Romine explores the impact of globalization on contemporary southern culture and the South's persistence in an age of media and what he terms "cultural reproduction." Rather than being compromised, Romine asserts, southern cultures are both complicated and reconfigured...
by Claire Strom, Stephanie Chalifoux, Francesca Gamber
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
In the American imagination, the South is a place both sexually open and closed, outwardly chaste and inwardly sultry. Sex and Sexuality in Modern Southern Culture demonstrates that there is no central theme that encompasses sex in the U.S. South, but rather a rich variety of manifestations and embodiments...
Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle
The Novels of Toni Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
This close study of the first six novels of Toni Morrison—The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, and Jazz—situates her as an African American writer within the American literary tradition who interrogates national identity and reconstructs social memory. Circles of Sorrow, Lines...
Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace
Civil Rights and Anticommunism in the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
In Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace, Yasuhiro Katagiri offers the first scholarly work to illuminate an important but largely unstudied aspect of U.S. civil rights history -- the collaborative and mutually beneficial relationship between professional anti-Communists in the North and...
Standing Against Dragons
Three Southern Lawyers in an Era of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Standing Against Dragons examines the careers of three exceptional lawyers who championed civil liberties and fought for civil rights in the two decades after World War II. John Coe of Pensacola, Florida, Clifford Durr of Montgomery, Alabama, and Benjamin Smith of New Orleans became southern dissenters,...
Forestry in the U.S. South
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
During the second half of the twentieth century, the forest industry removed more than 300 billion cubic feet of timber from southern forests. Yet at the same time, partnerships between public and private entities improved the inventory, health, and productivity of this vast and resilient resource....
Stalking the Ghost Bird
The Elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
When a kayaker thought he spotted an ivory-billed woodpecker in 2004, the birding community took notice. Two birders traveled to the bayou where the sighting occurred, well aware that the last confirmed sighting of an ivory-bill had taken place over sixty years ago. Both men caught a glimpse of the...
Kentucky Justice, Southern Honor, and American Manhood
Understanding the Life and Death of Richard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
When attorney John Jay Cornelison severely beat Kentucky Superior Court
judge Richard Reid in public on April 16, 1884, for allegedly injuring his
honor, the event became front-page news. Would Reid react as a Christian
gentleman, a man of the law, and let the legal system take its course, or would
he...
by Maria Isabel Medina
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Maria Isabel Medina's chronicle of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law examines the prominent Jesuit institution across its hundred-year history, from its founding in 1914 through the first decade of the twenty-first century. With a mission to make the legal profession attainable to Catholics,...
A Campaign of Quiet Persuasion
How the College Board Desegregated SAT® Test Centers in the Deep South, 1960-1965
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
In 1960, the College Entrance Examination Board became an unexpected participant in the movement to desegregate education in the South. Working with its partner, Educational Testing Services, the College Board quietly integrated its Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) centers throughout the Deep South....
Brown v. Board and the Transformation of American Culture
Education and the South in the Age of Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Brown v. Board of Education, which ended legally sanctioned segregation in American public schools, brought issues of racial equality to the forefront of the nation’s attention. Beyond its repercussions for the educational system, the decision also heralded broad changes to concepts of justice and...
Captives and Voyagers
Black Migrants across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Jamestown and Plymouth serve as iconic images of British migration to the New World. A century later, however, when British migration was at its peak, the vast majority of men, women, and children crisscrossing the Atlantic on English ships were of African, not English, descent. Captives and Voyagers,...
Tumult And Silence At Second Creek
An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
In the war-fevered spring and summer of 1861, a group of slaves in Adams County, Mississippi, conspired to gain their freedom by overthrowing and murdering their white masters. The conspiracy was discovered, the plotters were arrested and tried, and at least forty slaves in and around Natchez were...