Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.
...his archival holdings in the African American collections at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Best known for artist books that narrate African American history in striking...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...Texas include the central role of religious history. He identifies shared ideas and beliefs that, in the nineteenth century, gave rise to a cultural perspective that largely shaped the state's...
The Border South
...from the deeper South dismiss these places as not representative of the region; at other times Northerners make the comment, often with a sigh of relief that the person would...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...(16). Here, The Land Was Ours gestures towards African Americans' historic lack of access to state power that made coastal capitalism possible in the first place—a dilemma that undergirds blacks'...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...for an overview of what some singers have regarded as the “Sacred Harp revival.” For many, however, participation in Sacred Harp singing is a choice that has nothing to do...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...purposes and created what bell hooks has called "a counterhegemonic world of images" that rebutted the racist caricatures found in popular culture and in the work of some white photographers.3bell...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...PA 4970. It is estimated that by the time of its closing the Burgert Brothers studio had produced as many as 80,000 negatives that documented diverse aspects of life in...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...man sway his sceptre, In one hand he holds the rod— In the other hand the Scripture, And says that he's a man of God. Hear ye that mourning? 'Tis...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...familiar format of a pieced block. Originally made from silk and tie-dyed to create decorative patterns in red or blue, bandannas were among textiles imported from India in the eighteenth...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...wide, Hayden's water, baptism of survival. The river that Mama and I crossed over one summer, crossed over history's concrete back, the river that made her ask, Do you think...