A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...to annul. Confederate Memorial Day, Arlington National Cemetery, June 8, 2014. Maryland Sons of Confederate Veterans retire the colors during the Confederate Memorial Day exercises. Photograph by Flick user Tim...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...be made in selling Southern Living, southern literature, country music, and conservative politics. We know it is a construct, a collage of popular symbols, stock characters, song types, and genre...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Harp singing features day- or weekend-long gatherings, where participants sing without an audience from a songbook called The Sacred Harp. The convention in Cork drew a crowd unprecedented among European...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...Increasing numbers of cars, trolleys, buses, and taxis enabled movement between downtown and suburbs; rural and urban areas; "colored" and "white" areas; and cultural and domestic spheres. The city's growth...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...States is here generally broken into a number of subgenres of rap and bounce, though the definitions and boundaries of these categories are fluid and often change according to whom...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Window-shopping, Mobile, Alabama, 1956. Photograph 37.007 by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation. Parks's extensive selection of everyday scenes fills two large rooms in the...
Fort Scott newspapers
...and killed him while his assailant was pummeling him." "Let Us Consider" "Friday will long remain a memorable day in the history of Fort Scott. It was at once the...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...borrow the notion of "the thin black line" from the seminal black british visual artists' exhibition curated by Lubaina Himid in 1985. For the purpose of today's reflection, the "thin black line" resonates ideas about...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...After the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, the neighborhoods became out of bounds to the parades. Still, the visual celebration of Protestantism, identification with British culture, and denigration of the...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...on National Public Radio, asserts: "Basically, it was blood sugar . . . like we talk about blood diamonds today, there were pamphlets saying this sugar has blood on its...