Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...of the US South. Throughout Scott-Heron's expansive body of work, from his 1972 novel, The Nigger Factory, to his 2010 release, I'm New Here, the South looms large in his...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Chicago Press, 2004), 5. Allen argues that images, like Will Counts's iconic photograph of black student, Elizabeth Eckford, surrounded by a white mob and being cursed by white student Hazel...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...Republican lawmakers in the state also plan to introduce an "omnibus voting bill" in the next few weeks that would decrease the number of early voting days and eliminate Sunday...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...superstar status in the black gospel world. The album climbed to #4 on the gospel charts, dominated gospel radio, and enabled Kee to launch a nationwide tour. "We're getting more...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...had seemed potentially overwhelming odds. Winter’s Bone is adapted from a 2006 novel of the same title by Missouri Ozarks resident Daniel Woodrell, who has specialized in what he calls...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...oversaw the harbor's dredging, which continued for several years. Imposing steam-fueled engines churned the roots, sand and gravel over bulwarks, carving a fifteen-foot channel from the shallow bayou, transforming the...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...39–58; John Michael Vlach, The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts (Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978). Bottles, shells, pottery and other elements are held to ward off mystical dangers and...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...gospel is southern, and not all gospel of the US South is white.11Following Harry Eskew's lead in the Grove Music entry for Gospel Music, Stephen Shearon uses "northern urban" gospel...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
Essay Allison O. Adams, Lucy (Rhode Island red) and Ethel (Buff Orpington) enjoy a bath of dust and sunshine in Adams’s backyard, Decatur, Georgia, November 2009. For the first two...
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