Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...to ridicule the Presbyterians. Moore thinks the "focus on supernaturalism and folk justice" hides the actual issues in the episode. He sees these as "the complex relationship between kinship, gender,...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...boycotts, in 1952, of service stations and restrooms refusing to serve Black people were organized in Mound Bayou.3Peter Brown, "Strike City, Mississippi," Anarchy 7, no. 2 (1967): 33–37. And, in...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...tenor and treble sections include men and women, creating the effect of a six-part, rather than a four-part, harmony. Sacred Harp music frequently includes fuging tunes, which incorporate a technique...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...convict lease scholars such as Mary Ellen Curtin, David Oshinsky, Talitha LeFlouria, and Alex Lichtenstein. Haley's work also complements that of Khalil Muhammad, Cheryl Hicks, and Kali Gross, who have...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...song leaders, and singers of all ages” (xi). Through painstaking identification of the “who, where, when and how” of the tunebook’s creation, the authors portray a living tradition rooted in...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...of ex-slaves in what was to become the United States.6See Kathleen Deagan and Darcie MacMahon, Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995); and...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...“It is now, as it once was, a relatively healthy place.” Six centuries ago, well before the Columbian Exchange began, small bands of indigenous inhabitants enjoyed the bounty of the...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...Mississippi Valley Division, "Mississippi River and Tributaries Project," http://www.mvd.usace.army.mil/About/MississippiRiverCommission%28MRC%29/MississippiRiverTributariesProject%28MRT%29.aspx. Many disagree and argue that by altering the natural hydrological regime and boosting development on the flood-prone areas, federal flood control...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...number of juxtaposing images, and an increasingly complex mosaic of Appalachia. Figure 3 (Top): Barbara, centenarian, Perry County, Kentucky, October 24, 2014. Photograph by Shelby Lee Adams. http://lookingatappalachia.org/kentucky#/id/i9137065. Figure 4...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...shared experience. Beginning with the successes and struggles of Austin Dabney—a Revolutionary War hero of mixed ethnicity—Jennison draws readers into the complex world of early Georgia. Like other forgotten Georgians...