Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...were built for middle class Americans. See Annie S. Barnes, The Black Middle Class Family: A Study of Black Subsociety, Neighborhood, and Home in Interaction (Lima, Ohio: Wyndham Hall Press,...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...ago he began to decline; his vapory disorders increased, his intellect seemed to fail. He turned very deaf, and lost much of his spirits and liveliness in preaching, but was...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...their professions of democracy and Christian love. He found that his main destination, Mississippi—whose capital Jackson was named for Andrew Jackson—was an ideal place to learn this “American spirit.”51Kōgakukyū, 122....
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...plantations were responding to abolitionist rhetoric with idealistic portrayals of the master class, embellished with usually silent slaves in the background. The slave narrative, conversely, is viewed as having its...
Deep Ellum Blues
...tradition has remained the bluesiest of the regional variations of country music, including the honky tonk classics of Ernest Tubb and Hank Thompson. Another version of a blues/country synthesis returned...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...ceremonies of a religious, spiritual, or secular nature included music, dance, and dramatic performances as well as sculptures and other visual art objects. In one sense, art was the expressive...
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...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Medical Association committed itself to the crusade against hookworm in order to uplift the "enervated and atrophied spirit of our race."30Manuel Quevedo Baez to Bailey K. Ashford, December 16, 1903,...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...young activists struggled to be treated as first-class citizens, The Mitch Thomas Show, Teenage Frolics, and Teenarama emphasized that black youth were worthy of being first-class consumers and teenagers.72On the...