Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...critical analysis, reduces barriers to the discovery of scholarship, and enhances education and research initiatives.1"Benefits of Open Access Journals," Public Library of Science, accessed November 17, 2017, https://www.plos.org/open-access/. A spirit...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...and disease eradication Forms of healing (religious, spiritual, nutritional, and medicinal) Historically Black Medical Schools Disease specific analyses: sickle cell anemia, malaria, pellagra, hookworm, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, alcoholism, Ebola,...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Revolution, 1863–1877 (New York: Harper and Row, 1988). In the decades following Reconstruction, white terrorists left lynching victims hanging by roads and railroad tracks. The emergence in the 1920s of...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...to a selection of images depicting places and spaces of spiritual and vernacular importance, this section provides a useful visual introduction to the analysis that follows. Fats Domino under the...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...musicians performed various "racialized sounds," songs and styles understood, often wrongly, as originating among either blacks or whites. In this way of thinking, minstrelsy and spirituals were black sounds, string...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...March, and gave rise to the national clamor that assured the Voting Rights Act became law. Aerial view of marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, 1965. Since 1965, the Edmund...
Roadside Architecture
...at least to my eyes. The churches, for example, reflect their creators' faith in the supreme importance of their goal and give voice to the notion that spiritual concerns supersede...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...variation? For me, getting together with Elvira, Arnold, Lisa, and Michael is part of a spiritual journey. I began to realize that my own language has sometimes been problematic, especially...
When the Border Crossed Me
...films Faces of Time and Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos, and the book Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World (University of Illinois Press, 2011)....
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
...and is the author of Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory (2008) and editor of Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (2002)....