Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...this decentralized music culture. Minutes detail the name of each song leader, the page number(s) of song(s) each person led, the names of officers and committee members, these committees' reports,...
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...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...on their face discriminate between the races, and it has not been shown that their actual administration was evil, only that evil was possible under them."7Williams v. Mississippi, 170 US...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...one of No Mercy Here's most important interventions: the illumination of carceral institutions as central sites for the making of New South gender identities. African-American women carry hampers of beans,...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...anthropological history, Building the Devil’s Empire: French Colonial New Orleans.21Shannon Lee Dawdy, Building the Devil’s Empire: French Colonial New Orleans (University of Chicago Press, 2009). Dawdy shows the emergent eighteenth-century...
Good-Bye to All That?
...responsible and appropriately scaled industry in order to improve the county's struggling economy. While avoiding the word "zoning" (the third rail of local politics), they emphasized the need to engage...
The Black Belt
...distinguished by the colour of the soil. The part of the country possessing this thick, dark, and naturaly rich soil was, of course, the part of the South where the...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...rich detail the emotional turmoil experienced by the grandmother-protagonist Sally. She also depicts Sally's daughter Leslie as a genuinely caring and devoted mother, though not someone who is always forthright...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...descent. With collections numbering in excess of ten million items including books, manuscripts, correspondence, personal and professional papers of individuals, archived records of Africana institutions and organizations, as well as...