Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...to the shootings at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston on June 17, 2015, the LDHI team is partnering with Toni Carrier from Lowcountry Africana and Emanuel AME church leaders to develop...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...Travelers Car Club as the parade passed our studio. We were struck by the vibrancy of the club and the parade's manifestation of the parallel black and white worlds within...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...Art in 2010 and includes over fifty photographic portraits and audio interviews with New Orleans rappers, DJs, producers, photographers, label owners, promoters, record store personnel, journalists, and other parties involved...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...make use of parallel fifths, in which an interval of a fifth is employed consecutively, and Sacred Harp composers consider two notes, often fifths, sufficient for a chord. Sacred Harp...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...outside Yoknapatawpha) that appear in the novel. Clicking on any of the map's icons brings up additional information. Screenshot by Stephen Railton, 2014. Courtesy of Digital Yoknapatawpha Project. Part of...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...From historians like myself, Maria Elena Martinez, Lon Kurashige, William Deverell, and Robin D.G. Kelley, to social scientists like Ruthie Gilmore, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Leland Saito, Manuel Pastor, Laura Pulido and...
Local Color
...that the label "local color" and even the label "regional" generate, southern literature beyond the local color movement has continued to thrive on ambivalence toward the "normalizing" of national identity...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...an anemic "spokes-on-a-wheel" system of ill-funded, mostly unimproved local-destination roads filled in the gaps from farm to railroad depot and enabled horse and wagon travel where railroads didn't go. Ingram...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...carried out its ambitious agenda. But the collections of the bibliophiles in attendance became the foundation of today's Africana archives eco-system. The Library of Congress's Africana Collections began with Daniel...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...character of Antoine Doinel, played by Jean-Pierre Léaud.2The films in the Antoine Doinel series are: The 400 Blows (1959 feature), Antoine and Colette (1962 short), Stolen Kisses (1968 feature), Bed...