Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...third film, We Shall Not Be Moved, about black farmers with whom I had worked when I was at the Rural Advancement Fund. It's available for streaming free on Folkstreams....
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...revanchist critique of non-denominational evangelicalism offered by old-line denominational fundamentalists (namely, Southern Baptists, General Baptists, Free Will Baptists, and Independent Baptists; Nazarenes; Church of God; Church of Christ; Assemblies of...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...impetus as an explicitly abolitionist form, like Stowe's novel (indeed the narratives were an important source for her book's rendering of slave life). The fugitive or freed slaves, writing first-hand...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
Presentation Part One Black women who influenced Johnson's thinking about literature, folklore, the arts, and "quare theory" while growing up in western North Carolina and when attending UNC–Chapel Hill (5:27)....
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...Great Migration. Between 1916 and 1970, six million African Americans left the cotton fields and segregation of the rural South for northern, midwestern, and western cities, changing the American cultural...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...chapters. Pulitano argues that certain writers more effectively subvert western authority by fusing Native and western traditions, forcing readers to reconsider Eurocentric hegemony. In contradistinction to this group, she analyzes...
Besieged Terrain
...Tennessee part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Mount Mitchell in western North Carolina rise more than 6,500 feet. This landscape is what the public usually identifies as...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...western borders, prior to the Civil War. South Carolina's northwestern border in 1818 encompassed terrain formerly identified as "Cherokees Country" in the map from 1779. John Pinkerton, "United States of...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Just as the Lord had freed Moses and the Israelites from Egyptian tyranny, so they would find their freedom now. "We also must make an exodus," he exclaimed. "It's history...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...Joseph AME Church. Shortly after the rally, 1,500 African Americans headed to Howard Johnson's to continue their protests. These protests persisted throughout the summer as part of the "Freedom Highways"...