“Dreams do come true in New Orleans”: American fairy tales, Post-Katrina New Orleans, and Disney’s The Princess and the Frog (2009)

The review and analysis of the film 'The Princess and the Frog' by Walt Disney is discussed. Then film shows the sentimentalized and romanticized depiction of New Orleans and its surroundings, and seems to suggest that dreams come true in New Orleans

From swamps to swamping: The usage and perceptions of swamps by African-Americans in Antebellum and Postbellum Arkansas and Louisiana

This project is a landscape study that examines how different members of the antebellum and postbellum community in Arkansas and Louisiana perceived and used the swamplands, and how this changed over time. This project suggests that the swamps played an absolutely crucial role for individual slaves and free blacks both before and after the Civil War. Unlike Europeans and the white community who viewed the swamps as static, physical spaces on the plantation without value, African-Americans viewed them as fluid places filled with value. Religious practices were often performed near swamps, and even so-called aberrant religions practices, like voodoo, happened in the swamps. Slaves and free African-Americans contributed to a small slave-based economy by trading and selling items from the swamps, such as moss, hides, and nuts. After the Civil War, freed African-Americans garnered more economic stability by buying swamplands and exploiting their rich, fertile nature and planting crops. The swamps offered slaves spaces to perform small, everyday acts of resistance, which did not completely undermine planter control, but helped to did help to contribute to an African American culture and enabled them to enrich their everyday lives, despite their status as enslaved

Graphic Diaspora: Reframing Narratives Of American Identity In Black Comic Books

Comic books with Black main characters have been the subject of much critical exploration over the years. Typical analyses of these comics have focused on identity politics and representation of Black characters. However, critical discussion has not yet determined a method for interpreting representation of Black characters within comic books. This study incorporates approaches to reading Black expressive texts, caricature, and narratives of Black characters written by white authors to analyze the comic books All Negro Comics, The Black Panther, Black, and Bayou. Additionally, it argues that Black-authored Black comics require a reframing of the text through an African American cultural lens. It is concluded that Black comics offer readers insight about American racism and prejudice, and an understanding of perspectives on Black belonging within America

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The Bayou Lafourche Oral History Project: Understanding Environmental Change and Religious Identity in Louisiana

The article discusses the Bayou Lafourche Oral History Project, which studied the relation between environmental changes and religion in Bayou Lafourche, a river in South Louisiana. Topics include the role of oral history in community history, the work of Louisiana State University (LSU) students in the project, and the use of audiorecording devices. Also discussed are the role of Roman Catholic devotion to Our Lady of Prompt Succor in the community, the 1965 experience of Hurricane Betsy, and the indexing of interviews from the project

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - January 2, 2011

This is the January 2, 2011 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine\u27s newsletter - Watercooler Contents Include: \u27Miracle Baby\u27 Medical Student Featured in Press- Register USA Medical Honor Society Organizes Free Health Fair in South Mobile County \u27Standing for the Silenced\u27 - Press-Register Article Featuring USA Biomedical Librarian January Med School Café - “Modern Management of Crohn’s Disease” \u27Making Spirits Bright\u27 - Press-Register Features USA Family Specialty Clinic Donatio