When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...number of African Americans migrating to the South exceeded the number of those leaving the region. Especially for returning and primary migrants frustrated by the declining economic opportunities available in...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...part of what makes us human, likely found expression in other media. Among African people, diverse forms of artistic expression defined and gave meaning to their unique cultures. Rituals and...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...1. In the aftermath of this feast, journalist Don Marquis suggested that "the possum, and all the talk back and forth across the festive boards . . . has likely...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...like "climate" to reveal that nineteenth-century European and American understandings of health and disease were inextricable from their environment. When nineteenth-century Germans referred to their suitability to certain climates, they...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...Woodward's assessment in 1975 was not unlike that of Faulkner in 1933, who quipped that the South would never accomplish anything in "music and the plastic arts." Faulkner is famous...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...by Oh-OK’s music, Christgau described it perfectly in his review of Furthermore What: The secret of this childlike music isn’t just its coy sexuality—lots of girls like to play that...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...line from Psalms 139:12 is “the darkness and the light are both alike to you.” Alike, I argue, in that both arrive daily, and perpetually offer us a frontier to...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...laws resulting in racial discrimination. The Court's decision will likely unleash a new round of widespread discrimination in voting across the nation and continues its section-by-section destruction of the law...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...access. Like our section menu and social media sharing buttons, it's out of the way but always present if you need it. The design of individual publications on the new...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...men, who had escaped from Seneca Mill. It seems likely that a number of the adult men enumerated in the 1848 inventory worked in the Seneca quarry during the months...