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 Originally made from silk and tie-dyed to create decorative patterns in red or blue, bandannas were among textiles imported from India in the eighteenth...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
...on my songs. 2. DeSoto speaks I have seen him before all over the world. This Indian, this Tuscaloosa, this red man with the black name dares to think he...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research explores the...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...The African Frontier: The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies, ed. Igor Kopytoff (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987). The status of first inhabitants as "owners" of the land imbues them with...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...street in BVL that housed "New Yoricans, Italians, Cubans, Filipinos, Indians, Jamaicans, Colombians, Brits, Anglos, and Puerto Ricans."48Phil Fernandez and John Conway, "Osceola Hispanics Blend of Cultures, Traditions, Food," Orlando...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...in this context by Mardi Gras Indians, second lines, and social aid and pleasure clubs) comprise the theoretical center of New Orleans Suite, Watts and Porter also spend much time...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...the hurricane, highlighting the presence of the Mardi Gras Indians Part 7: Spitzer explores how The Second Line fuses performance and space, work and play; features an interview with Gregory Davis...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...