Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...and a measure of self-pride, myself included."8Al Blair, letter to John Biggers, March 1978, John Biggers Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library, Emory University. House of the Turtle, pre-installation,...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...dynamic for this particular borderland, at least. For some, this correlation between ideology and geography was fully evident at the time. Stowe, for instance, offers an intriguing observation on the...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...memorialized notes the collective and willful forgetting by Americans about slavery. Taking off from the installation of the first public civil rights monument at the market "honoring the struggle for...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...In some instances, the flag has become an informal emblem of working-class white identity, often detached from specific, regional referents. It has flown as the backdrop for rock bands. The...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
When Chuck Willis released his single "Betty and Dupree" in 1958, he and Atlantic Records wanted to keep teenagers across the country dancing the Stroll. Willis's "C. C. Rider" (1957)...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...live formally on December 11, 2014, with a launch party from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Cafe Instanbul in New Orleans. The evening will feature Nesby Phips DJing, with a...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...her death occurred. Sample prints from the first instance of The Children Don't Count in MARBL's Kennedy & Sons collection remembers Chicago children who died in 1992. The activist motivations...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...1997), 278. They also argue that the instability of poor people's lives generally prevents sustained efforts for social change. Despite day laborers' general lack of stability and resources, some of...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
Introduction Recording of "Coronation" #63 sung by Hoboken Sacred Harp Singers, led by Silas Lee, Florida Folk Festival. Courtesy of Florida Folklife Collection, State Library of Florida, May 4, 1958. Music...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...in India and Latina/Latino migrants to the USA, in these instances, to assimilate, to conform, to change themselves—if indeed they can. Upward social mobility is the presumed route out of...