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 Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...Limp wrist #1, Forrest, Orlando, Florida, 2016. Photographs by Forrest Lawson. Courtesy of Forrest Lawson. Solomon: Your Limp Wrist cast series also represents how a singular experience can be displayed...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...the long term confinement and reproductive sterilization of thousands of people whom the elected politicians of Georgia saw as little more than burdens on the state. Segrest demonstrates the impact...
The Liminal Site
...to its new home, the game is just about over. Despite all encouragement and direction, most homeowners run right home and find the sunniest, driest, and nastiest site with the...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...largely unknown. The Lower Chattahoochee is most well-known as home to Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1882–1939), one of the most celebrated early "classic blues" singers. The mostly band-oriented style that Rainey popularized, however,...
Good-Bye to All That?
...young men (mostly black and brown) at a staggering rate; growing numbers of Americans remain food insecure in the richest nation on earth; despite the gains of the last year,...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...or co-curated more than three dozen of the more than eighty exhibitions on African and Africana themes. Most were either inspired by or based on the objects, content, and themes...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...also to the nation more generally. And it was far and away the most telling disaster in our national experience. Katrina stripped away the outer surface of our social structure...
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...
Music in Cipriere, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2001