Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?" "Summer Water and Shirley" By Durango Mendoza Originally published in Prairie Schooner, volume XL, number 3 (Fall 1966) It was in the summer that had...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...1688 novella. By this means, I aimed to authorize Imoinda as an (alter)native narrative to Behn's text. Thus, like Giovanna Covi who first translated the libretto with Chiara Pedrotti, readers and...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...of some editorialists' condemnations of the white South in which all are hopelessly benighted and racist. It is certainly true that even liberal editors like Greenville's Hodding Carter circled his...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...look like other rural towns in eastern North Carolina, it carries significant histories. Shiloh Landing marks the point along the Tar River where enslaved peopled disembarked into brutal lives of...
Mississippi Delta
...modernization of the region, not as a commercial-industrial site but creating plantations as factories, marked by industrial-like management techniques and close control of costs, including exploitation of a large pool...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...its economic agenda and its myth of racial stability, Atlanta, like the rest of the South, would for the next several decades struggle for a New South economy under the...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...through the twenty-first century and, more likely, for centuries to come. As race has been a persistent problem, so too has the study of race. The difficulty of confronting the...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...and American Culture 18, no. 1 (2008): 27–58. "Southern gospel" remains the preferred term in the study of white gospel music of the South. Unlike "northern urban" gospel (a phrase...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...a limited number of tunes. Singing schools emerged to teach lay-persons the basics of reading and performing music. These schools operated independently of any congregation or denomination and were run...