When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...in the Urban Church (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994); Bob Darden, People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music (New York: Bloomsbury, 2004); Anthony Heilbut, Gospel Sound:...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...the miners, then reopen under new corporate settings. These new companies do not rehire the miners who were active under the previous contract. Instead of hiring the local workers who...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...Georgia, 4 September 2003. As new Sacred Harp spread nationally, private Crawfordite sings continued in homes and in association with Big Meeting. Advocates of new Sacred Harp joined with members...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...Southgate is author of Another Way to Dance (New York: Delacorte Press, 1996), The Fall of Rome: A Novel (New York: Scribner, 2010), Third Girl from the Left (New York: Houghton...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...other men.3Quoted in Robert Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (New York: Basic Books, 1994), 179. It was against this...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...for him with a malignant air and the negro lost no time in taking himself away. After that he knew his place."12J. E. Johnson, "Siamese Twins," in Mount Airy News,...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...Deal and the Origins of Our Time (New York: Liveright, 2013). State Parks For Negroes Exhibit, State Fair Grounds, Richland County, South Carolina, 1958. Photograph by unknown creator, South Carolina...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896, new ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1920), 340. See also Population of the United States in 1860, Compiled...
Deep Ellum Blues
...blacks lived in Minnesota, but the road builders found them."6Quoted by Dan Baum, "Letter from New Orleans: The Lost Year: Behind the Failure to Rebuild," The New Yorker, August 21, 2006,...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...newer version of the Soundscriber Hurston would have used, New York, 1944. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image in Public Domain. Bottom, Zora Neale Hurston with Rochelle French and Gabriel Brown,...