Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
Introduction Recording of "Coronation" #63 sung by Hoboken Sacred Harp Singers, led by Silas Lee, Florida Folk Festival. Courtesy of Florida Folklife Collection, State Library of Florida, May 4, 1958. Music...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...couples still living in Lunenburg: both were born and continued to live there. Since the Bagleys did not share an owner, they likely lived abroad, though this did not keep...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
Introduction I remembered back to my coming-out days in San Antonio, Texas, in the early 1960s and realized that I had lived long enough and been out long enough to...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...system that repressed them. Raymond served in the Korean War, the United States' first fully integrated war, and he was part of the Second Great Migration. He lived much of...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
"TWUA" cheerleaders featured in Gloria Steinem's PBS series Woman Alive!, 1973–1974. In the spring of 1974, a dozen white and African American women and their daughters gathered outside the office...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...nights than live music so everyone could come.14Poster reproduced as an ad, Red and Black, December 1, 1983, 6; Lachowski, interviews; Briscoe Hay, interviews. A live recording of that farewell...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...patients were cattle herders, tobacco and banana pickers, domestic workers, and washers. Most of these patients lived in the highlands. Many were itinerant workers who moved from plantation to plantation...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Ethnic and Racial Studies 32, no. 6 (2009): 1037-1057; Benjamin Shultz, “Inside the Gilded Cage: The Lives of Latino Immigrant Males in Rural Central Kentucky,” Southeastern Geographer 48, no. 2...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...learn and practice the music of old-time musicians. He felt he needed to go where they lived, to photograph and film their lives, and to experience and embrace their culture.24For...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...Guatemala, so I know how to do that," he says with anticipation. Francisco is trying to get to the city of Chamblee where his uncle lives in an apartment with...