Unquiet Emmett Till
Review Emmett Till continues to torment our imaginations. How could two (and almost certainly more) grown men, veterans, over six feet tall, see a fourteen year old kid as such...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...amount of £ 340 Sterg To purchase religious books for The Poor.1The stone and that of the minister's sister Mary Davie are now inside a brick-walled enclosure built in 1927....
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...Good News and Bad Times (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971); Pearl Williams-Jones, "Afro-American Gospel Music: A Crystallization of the Black Aesthetic," Ethnomusicology 19, no. 3 (1975) 373–385; Robert M....
Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...we had our club meetings, and so forth and so on. Most of these homes around here are equipped that way."4Henry Herbert Bankston, interview by author, April 12, 2012. A...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...right-wing think tanks and "public interest" propaganda outlets. After crushing a number of moderate North Carolina Republicans over the last ten years by funding their more conservative opponents, he gained...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...and by extension the history of the United States and India, over the last century and more. It should be obvious that many of the quandaries and challenges considered here...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...sided with the Confederacy. There were a disproportionate number of Creek leaders who had close ties to the Deep South: economic relationships, cultural influences, and, to some degree, plantation systems....
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...its visual spectacle, the installation greets our hearing and smell. Standing by the entrance closing our umbrellas and drying the bottoms of our dripping pants, we listen to the entering...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...and merchants."6Thomas Bassett and Philip Porter, "'From the Best Authorities': The Mountains of Kong in the Cartography of West Africa." The Journal of African History 32, no. 3 (1991): 367....