The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...Cold Mountain, and has collaborated with pianist Omar Sosa and composer Evan Chambers. He has taught at Dartmouth College, Hampshire College, Amherst College, the University of Minnesota and Smith College....
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...of a national network of what anthropologist St. Clair Drake used to call the "vindicationist school" of black intellectuals. Responding to what I have called the reigning unwisdom of the...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...admirers appreciate its value and interest. At one point just past the middle of her career she pulled together a collection of relatively short pieces of hers about the United...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...drink no more bad whiskey.” Now in the August heat, it’s shift change. The whistle hangs in the stiff air. The lake stirs a moment, then is quiet. People slip...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...were not paved. Since then, Clarksville has gentrified and is now one of Austin's most expensive neighborhoods. just northwest of downtown, and in the area east of East Avenue adjacent...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...quilt made a statement about the family's social status. The Bensons could have purchased the chintz locally but it is quite possible that they demonstrated the importance of their eldest...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...its first Black mayor, Maynard Jackson. He then returned north where he has spent most of the last forty years—primarily at Yale, Northwestern University, and the University of Pennsylvania—teaching and...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...for a year at Community of Hope, Tulsa's GLBTQ church; as a pastor of various United Church of Christ congregations on the East Coast; and as a person in critical...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...of segregation (228). Just as a statue of the Biblical prophet Moses is affixed on the dome of the Jackson, Mississippi, courthouse, the state's religious culture and legal racial apartheid...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...and (2) the growing number of suburban mosques in neighborhoods in which both African Americans and South Asians live. Mosques stand out as the most vital nodes of Muslim networks...