Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...stability and holds much energy in its web—energy that in simpler systems (a field of weeds just after a bulldozer) is lost back into the sky or down the drain."...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...way, and though he uses non-"ideal" sources such as "surveys, social networks, pornographic searches, and dating sites" to compile "evidence" on the "number of gay men" in this country, Stephens-Davidowitz...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...in Hollywood, Maryland, Annapolis, Maryland, Historic Jamestowne, Virginia, Yorktown, Virginia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pensacola, Florida, Fernandina Beach, Florida, St. Augustine, Florida. Three locations have installed markers: Historic Jamestowne, Virginia; Yorktown, Virginia;...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...president, South Carolina declared that his election foretold that "the equal rights of the States will be lost. The slaveholding States will no longer have the power of self-government, or...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...know of only one white-authored account. The June 4, 1893, Atlanta Constitution reports that a Mr. W.D. Boggus of Covington has a number of curiosities on display in his place...
Editors
...Tullos Senior Editor, Southern Spaces Professor of History Emory University Bowden Hall 537 Kilgo Circle Atlanta, GA 30322-2870 Allen Tullos is professor of History at Emory University and co-director of...
Authorship in Africana Studies
Joan Anim-Addo: Traveling with Imoinda Above, the cover to Joan Anim-Addo's Imoinda: Or She Who Will Lose Her Name (London: Mango Publishing, 2008). Below, the cover to the 1688 first edition...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...noble indignation, repulses him with one final effort, but one so sudden, so powerful, that Alfred lost his balance and struck his head as he fell. . . . At...