Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...served as a conductor. In 1874 the collection was reprinted with its prose passages reworked in verse and a new appendix featuring poetic commentaries on the Fifteenth Amendment, the Underground...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...Though hip-hop had the loyalty of most undergraduates, my inner circle, particularly my fellow women's basketball teammates, had a deep appreciation for gospel music. On our road trips, at the...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...appeal and enduring impact. Its influence, Kytle and Roberts write, extends north and west of the Mason-Dixon Line and strongly persists to the present, as evidenced by the intense racial...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...blocked major intersections to ease the motorcade's passage. Of the approximately five hundred participants, it appears that all were white, except for one African American man who terms himself a...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...Puerto Rican settlements appeared in New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, and other parts of the country like Lorain, Ohio or Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.36Teresa Whalen and Victor Vazquez-Hernandez, eds., The Puerto Rican Diaspora:...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
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Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...places of return or retreat, places that hold personal memories, aesthetic appeal, or the promise of renewed connection with the land. Four of the photographers grew up in the Delta...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...of her, muttering, as she approached, "There she come again, with the scripture, there she come." Ward wove this story in and out of her narrative, referring back to the...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...three regionally differentiated approaches: one that includes East Texas and adjacent portions of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana; a second stylistic region in the Deep South extending from the Mississippi Valley...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...Phillis. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. London, 1773. Yet, while these privileged students occupy an exalted space that approaches the heavens, it is given to the ostensibly subordinate slave...