The Makers of the Sacred Harp
Review Cover of David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan's The Makers of the Sacred Harp, 2010. Shape-note singing from The Sacred Harp tunebook is one of the most vibrant...
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....
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...for New Integration Strategies," A Report of the Civil Rights Project, UCLA, August 2007. The NCES estimates the dropout rate for students of color (specifically black and Hispanic students) at...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...money lost from the sale of the crops they labored to raise under sharecropping and share tenancy, money lost to landlords' inflated interest and lien credit, and the resulting lost...
The Black Belt
...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...better. Mama said to stay around the church grounds." "Aw, you're just afraid." "No, it's just that—" "'Mama said to stay around the church grounds!' Fraidycat, I'll go by myself...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...and hymns whose lyrics are, as most southern gospel is, suffused with first-person struggles of ordinary Christians, striving after, struggling for, and faithfully pressing on toward greater assurance of belief...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...their best friend they called him. But 1966, you know, that was two years before they even admitted the first black student to study on this campus. They'd happily plant...