Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...I was the principal investigator for two of these (the MetaArchive and AmericanSouth), which brought in some six hundred thousand dollars to the Emory Libraries. These grants inaugurated a new...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...1981);Young'uns: A Celebration (New York: Harper & Row, 1982); her memoir, Turned Funny; six mysteries, The Malignant Heart (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958), Ah, Sweet Mystery: A Kate Mulcay Mystery (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), Straight as an...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...eds. Beverly Diamond and Robert Witmer. (Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1994), 175- 176, 181. The Tennessee Jamboree must be understood in the broader context of the barn dance genre, and...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...emerged after the Civil War, Mexico often represented freedom from racial oppression.6Quintard Taylor, In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528–1990 (New York: W.W. Norton,...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...ca. 1920–1940. Sketch map by Alice M. Grant based on the work of Zora Neale Hurston and Everett L. Fly. Originally published in "Eatonville Historic Trails ISTEA Proposal," 1996. Courtesy...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...welcomes them). "There is no Americano dream," he writes. "There is only the American dream created by an Anglo-Protestant society. Mexican-Americans will share in that dream and in that society...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
Community Building in a New South City Atlanta offers a sharp perspective of the Black experience in the urban South during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The emergence of its...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...1,438 rolls, source consulted: s.v. P. Cleveland, 1860 United States Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Albemarle County, Virginia, http://www.ancestry.com/; P. Cleveland to [Thomas P. Jackson], May 6, 1867, Valley of the...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...wellspring of the “ultimate traditional Sacred Harp singers.”2Kiri Miller, Traveling Home, Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism, University of Illinois Press, 2008, 102. Miller’s book, which includes a substantive discussion...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...Humanism," boundary 2 vol. 12, no. 3 – vol 13, no. 1 (Spring–Autumn, 1984): 47. Here I take some solace in the conditional nature of Wynter's most damning observation. If the fraught relations...