Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Ireland Convention, travel brought sizable numbers of European singers to each other’s singings for the first time.14A handful of Irish singers visited the United Kingdom in April, 2011, for the...
Good-Bye to All That?
...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...razed and an untold number of residents displaced in the name of progress. Nor is its future unclouded. Evening on Bayou St. John, New Orleans, between 1900 and 1906. Library...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
Review There's a gripping scene in Arthur Jafa's award-winning film, Dreams Are Colder Than Death, in which he pairs the image of a small group of African American boys acrobatically...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
Excerpt After the end of the Civil War, recently freed Black people endeavored to create their own communities. During Reconstruction, and with newfound access to political and economic power, Black...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Delta and Bayou in "Outlands."4James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001), 178. Clay not only had a desire to document the vestiges of an older...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...was wonderful to meet him, but no, I think another has my vote."1Charles J. Dean, "In Black Belt, McCain Wins Hearts, Not Votes," Birmingham News, April 22, 2008. Edmund Pettus...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...of their architecture and the gorgeous weather that characterized their location. La Gaceta Collection http://digital.lib.usf.edu/lagaceta La Gaceta 11/174, July 22, 1933. La Gaceta, founded by Cuban immigrant and lector Victoriano...