Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...had sung spirituals through the night." Hudson's sentence evokes the Black presence while stressing their physical absence from a cropped and sanitized image.18Hudson, O. N. Pruitt's Possum Town, 152–153. Just...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...a collaborative national endeavor with bipartisan support and continuing public and private funding. It is divided into more than 100 collections dealing with different aspects of American life, organized by...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Baptist Church. She and her siblings sang spirituals as The Bussey Sisters, with Bryant and one of her older sisters accompanying on guitar. Outside of church, she played at parties...
Timber, Equity, and Ethics
Video About the Author Susan Hamill is a Professor of Law at University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa and an analyst of tax law. She is the author...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...South Carolina's first congressional district voted to elect former Governor Mark Sanford to fill Congressman Tim Scott's seat in the House of Representatives. Last December, Governor Nikki Haley appointed Congressman...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...University of California Santa Cruz, and Eric Porter, a University of California Santa Cruz American Studies and history professor, take the title of their book from a five-movement Duke Ellington-composed...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...point" is the degree to which the project is fundamentally frustrating. Each time an image seems to frame Appalachia in a particular way, other images unsettle the frame. As Susan...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...the squeeze is on for profits in a glutted car market. Workers at Nissan can make a car in 15.74 labor hours—and then Nissan makes an average of $2069 in...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...closest.9 These two trends support the 2000 American mosque survey findings: "Approximately 40% of mosque participants travel more than 15 minutes from their home to get to the mosque." Ihsan...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Parker, the State Health Commissioner, declared the camps a "menace to public health" because they lacked clean water and sanitary toilets. The condition of the camps gave the authorities a...