Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...or events and hearing it. For me, it's a powerfully emotional song, because it deals with pride, cultural heritage, and a clear recognition of all the difficulties African Americans have...
Cajun South Louisiana
...were the target of American Protestant suspicion of Catholics. Cajuns returned the favor. Writing of Cajuns in the late 1870s, R.L. Daniels noted that of Americans, as a class, they...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...lynched African Americans for alleged offenses that challenged white supremacy, Villanueva argues that Anglos lynched Mexicans to police "citizenship and sovereignty" (5). Although Mexican Americans were "white by law" since...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...the perspective of American exceptionalism, which, according to Paulus, proslavery leaders "defined as the ability to employ either a congressional or states' rights approach to defend and perpetuate the institution...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...old racial order. The city's African American population contended with the framework of this struggle. In 1870, Blacks accounted for nearly half of Atlanta's population. As free persons they competed...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Brothers, Residence at 2719 Jefferson Street, single-story wood frame, shotgun interior full front porch with gable and trellis, Tampa, Florida. Catalog No.: PA 5780. American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html American Memory is...
The Carolina Piedmont
...significant numbers. Enslaved African Americans made up ten percent of the Carolina Piedmont's population in the 1760s. By 1800, only two or three counties had black populations of more than...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...cover and content page from The Fifth London Festival of American Music program featuring The Crossing, libretto by Joan Anim-Addo. The art that chooses us, I suggest, carries its own...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...Great Migration. Between 1916 and 1970, six million African Americans left the cotton fields and segregation of the rural South for northern, midwestern, and western cities, changing the American cultural...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...achieve the hygienic practices that kept middle-class and wealthy Anglo and Mexican American homes clean and free of disease was lost on these public health officials. Exposing Anglo Americans' privileges...