Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...on similar issues. to Kara Walker's cut-paper silhouette art in her 2007–2008 exhibit "American Primitives."28On "American Primitives," see Grace Elizabeth Hale's "A Horrible, Beautiful Beast," Southern Spaces, March 6, 2008,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...wages ("Tallapoosa County, Alabama: Civil War Pension"). But in the renewed onslaught of reaction in the South—where lynching of African American men and the rape of African American women became...
The Carolina Piedmont
...significant numbers. Enslaved African Americans made up ten percent of the Carolina Piedmont's population in the 1760s. By 1800, only two or three counties had black populations of more than...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...the American Forest (2001). He also speaks to a variety of groups and meets with environmental officials in Washington. He and his wife Rose Lane were named National Outstanding Tree...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...of the NAACP. Although she was hired to be a "secretary," her supervisor encouraged her to become an organizer, to travel with other staff members and take on a greater...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...Native American and United States history and participates in WCU's Cherokee Studies program. Denson is author of Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture (University of Nebraska Press, 2004)....
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
Review In this short book, distinguished political scientist Adolph L. Reed, Jr. offers remembrances from his early life below the Mason-Dixon line as a member of the last African American...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...rhetoric and southern romanticism.2John Bealle, Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997); Kiri Miller, Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...we, the Americans, we, the American people, are able to accept the fact . . . that on that continent we are trying to forge a new identity, that we...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
Review Edward Comentale's Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song is the latest work in a growing corpus of vernacular American music studies that seeks to understand the relationship...