Sonic Zora in Florida
...of The Florida Guide, part of an "American Guide" series designed to "hold up a mirror to America." The gig provided her with the opportunity to sharpen her ethnographic game,...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...roads. In turn, anti-Klan activity during Reconstruction often protected streets and neighborhoods. Armed African American groups in Bennettsville, South Carolina, for example, organized protective street patrols.1Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...a central theme in the work of many self-identified black southerners, including Scott-Heron.5Davis, 64. Cover of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson's From South Africa to South Carolina, 1976. Much of...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...paradoxically, creating a vision of a new Southern empire, which would conjoin slave-owning states with the plantations and territories of the Caribbean, Central America, and beyond (22). Aside from political...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...as a free-lance reporter. He was a contributing editor for Saturday Review of Education (1972-1973), Race Relations Reporter (1973–1974), and Southern Voices (1974–1975). From 1973–1975, he was a writer for...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...where Africans first arrived in North America, is neither the actual place of Africans' first arrival in Virginia (Point Comfort, Hampton, Virginia, is the actual site) or in North America...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
..."almost half had been in America five years or less at the time of the Census." See John Y. Fenton, Transplanting Religious Traditions: Asian Indians in America (New York: Praeger,...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...most recent book, Everything But the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009), examines the making of coffee house and public culture in contemporary America....
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...post-Civil Rights, neoliberal America, could undermine the whole project. Finally, scholars are beginning to get over that reluctance. New work by Jennifer Thomson, Paul Sabin and Keith Woodhouse, for example,...
Encountering COVID
...fruits and vegetables that America eats. This area around Yuma is called "America's Salad Bowl." Our organization provides services to our population, including immigration, housing, parenting, chronic disease prevention, and...