Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...rhetoric and southern romanticism.2John Bealle, Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997); Kiri Miller, Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...motif of water breaching signifies the larger perplexity of "rootedness" and fixity for all African Americans with ancestors forcibly brought to American shores. How can anyone find stasis out of...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Smithsonian building, known today as "The Castle"? As is well established, enslaved African Americans worked on the construction of many buildings in antebellum Washington, DC, including the US Capitol and...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...her own project on Indigenous innocence, representing Native Americans in post-conviction appeals. Our moderator this evening is Professor Megan O'Neil, who will be assisting with audience questions after the panel...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...burials. In the 1960s, developers sought to buy the land and disinter the remains in both burial grounds. African American activists, including the Afro-American Bicentennial Corporation (ABC), energetically resisted these plans,...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...American music. In the early to mid-nineteenth century, musicians in northeast urban centers became enamored of European styles of composition and came to regard the kind of music taught in...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...parade, McClellanville, South Carolina, 2010. Low Country African American social life remains centered around churches and there is a strong spiritual camaraderie between car club members. As prescribed in the...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) to the more recent Cuban American writing of the 1980s–90s. He invests substantial energy in altering the grand, exceptionalist narrative of southern literary studies, which goes...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...class. He is the author of Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century (2004), which won the American Culture Association's John G. Cawelti Book Prize. Wiese...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...the summer of 1938. By taking to the road, Daniels was following the lead of a number of writers who set out to see the United States in the midst...