The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...across time and space.4For more on Haitian Marian devotion, see Terry Rey, Our Lady of Class Struggle: The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Haiti (Trenton: Africa World Press, 1999)....
The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
Today’s post is the first in an ongoing series compiling links related to news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
In Search of Justice Mother Jones once said, "There is no peace in West Virginia, because there is no justice [in West Virginia]." This is as true today as when...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...the nostalgic reminiscences of a collector's career. Roots music, both the new iterations produced today as well as earlier songs and styles that continue to circulate, is often placed at...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...a representation of black experience in America. Brotherman illustrator, Dawud Anyabwile, visited Emory University on June 5, 2015 as a guest lecturer for Clint Fluker's Visual Culture class, Black Comix (IDS 216),...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...conceal social fragility or uneasiness.4For a discussion of the relationship between representations of hypermasculinity and cultural disenfranchisement, see Tricia Rose, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...to Mos Def: in America, the only way for a young black man to survive is to play by the rules he had no role in writing. Of course, there...
The Border South
...of a border began to take shape. G. Woolworth Colton, Detail from Map of the United States of America, Original version available at The Library of Congress Maps Collection. Historians,...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...tradition, provided a burst of activity that drew in a new group of participants, and spurred Irish singers to work hard to promote Sacred Harp singing elsewhere in Ireland and...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...1899 to 1963. Like most photographers in nineteenth-century America, the Burgerts did commercial work. Technological advances in the late nineteenth-century gave birth to this specific field of professional photography conducted...