Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...of the twentieth century, singings spread to the Northeast, Midwest, and West Coast. Later, through these same channels, The Sacred Harp expanded to Canada, Europe, Australia, and East Asia.3Jesse P....
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...book, the problems it raises, and the ones that remain to be raised. Gwen Ottinger, whose 2013 book Refining Expertise performed a sharp analysis of discourse between local activists protesting...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...However, the ascension of Jim Crow drove Charleston's black narrators and their truth-be-told accounts of bondage from the public sphere for many decades, complicating but not thwarting Kytle and Roberts'...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...York: Oxford University Press, 2008); Charles Lane, The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, The Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2008); and...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...and insisting that they work to better the neighborhood for all residents, board members excuse themselves from considering the fundamental importance of inclusion. Mayorga-Gallo illustrates how the association's promotional practices...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...bundles of such mailings in the post office's possession and likely more about to arrive, Postmaster Alfred Huger, an enslaver himself, was flummoxed, caught between his federal duties and his...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...soon see Miss Amelia in the Better Land." In the Oxford cemetery, the Kitty marker serves a comparable function, mediating white transitions between the realms of life and the afterlife....
Race
...told, and not told, this tale. When Paul came East alone he was as they were, their brother. The poet invents heroic moments where the pale black ancestor stands up...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...connections between mob violence and "legal" lynching run deeper than this slim volume conveys. While the antipathy between the NAACP and ILD infused both the Scottsboro and Peterson campaigns, the...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...hundred largest commuter zones in the study (worst here meaning the least likely for children born to low-income families to ever rise out of poverty), was used by The New...