Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...
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...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...United States. In a letter to SCLC’s membership, Lowery described Winn-Dixie’s business in South Africa as an insult to the grocery chain’s African American customer base and condemned what he...
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...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Klan, rode on horseback intimidating African Americans, disrupting local Republican Party and Loyal League activities, preventing voting, and sometimes leaving the bodies of murdered African Americans along the sides of...
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...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...from places where singing schools thrived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have come into contact with Sacred Harp music and begun to hold events modeled on southeastern singings, they...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...for American Studies at the British Library. His research centers upon on African American history and literature since 1865, with a particular interest in African American media and print culture....
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...first census to record the names of all recently emancipated African Americans, records about sixty African Americans named Clifton in the state of South Carolina. The only white slave owning...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, President Donald J. Trump, and Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Robert R. Redfield listen as Dr. Stephan Monroe, CDC...