Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...including the Chicago Defender, Jet, and Afro World. In the 1960s, SNCC used the photograph on posters to promote voting rights in Mississippi. More recently, it was used in the...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...promotional photographs. Their images depict the Ybor City Museum, a converted Cuban bakery on the grounds of Ybor City State Park. They speak to Ybor City's later role as a...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...the project director and editor-in-chief of Sounding Spirit, a research lab and publishing initiative promoting collaborative engagement with historical American songbooks. Karlsberg is an internationally recognized singer, teacher, composer, and songbook...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...authority in religious matters, paid inordinate attention to female reproductive organs as the cause of insanity, and promoted a racialized vision of healthy womanhood that ignored the trauma of abuse....
Editors
...Butters, Duke University Keith Byerman, Indiana State University Richard Campanella, Tulane University Robert Cantwell, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Mike Carnathan, Atlanta Regional Commission Jim Carnes, Filmmaker Dan T. Carter,...
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 Originally made from silk and tie-dyed to create decorative patterns in red or blue, bandannas were among textiles imported from India in the eighteenth...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...
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...