Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
Introduction The city of Atlanta has a reputation of promise and opportunity in the American ummah (the Islamic brotherhood and sisterhood), particularly for African American Muslims. Indeed, many leave cities...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...Atlanta, Georgia, 2000 US Census, http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ QTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=16000US1304000&-qr_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_QTP3&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U (accessed May 23, 2006). In Sibley's imagined urban spaces, African Americans regularly appear as servants. Here again, white nostalgia infuses her conception of...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...sing”—misses the point of “why we sing” and the core values of memory, legacy and spirituality. The Okefenokee Region The area that gave birth to Hoboken-style Sacred Harp lies in...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...ethnic group—"Americans of Spanish origin or descent"—and defined the population to be enumerated.23Ibid. Grace Flores-Hughes, who served in the administration of three presidents and helped coin the "Hispanic" label for...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
Introduction Location of Lockhart, Alabama, 2012. On a warm spring day in 1904, former governor of Maryland and lumberman E. E. Jackson, along with several associates, traveled to Alabama to...
Insistent Traces
Readings https://vimeo.com/134755182 Claudia Emerson reads the untitled opening from Pinion: An Elegy. View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134755765 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "Rent." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134756419 Claudia Emerson...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...being required to shut down, and yet other venues choosing to forego live music to avoid potential complaints. See Jan V. Ramsey, "Let's Just Shut Frenchmen Street Down - Offbeat...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
Commentary An online search using the keywords "COVID-19" and "lessons" turns up an astonishing volume and assortment of information: thousands of commentaries, news stories, scholarly articles, book chapters, and monographs. The...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...actors could deploy new strategies and solidify networks of accomplices. Beginning in 1894, Colonel Harry Fisher—"railroad man, fertilizer magnate, friend of corporations"—commenced the political opossum suppers of Newnan, Georgia, to...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...who had previously engaged Muslim leaders in another health project, facilitated the IFB partnership. BRAC provided online training to IFB field supervisors and BBCF pastors via Zoom, addressing questions and...