Religion and the US South
...habitation. As the South became a predominantly biracial society in the nineteenth century, the coming together of the religions of western Europe and western Africa provided the essential background for...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...1887.56Advertisement, Detroit Free Press, February 27, 1887, 3. Black Jack's panoramic image and the accompanying promotional publicity burnished his reputation as one of the most successful Civil War generals on...
Deep Ellum Blues
...soon after the war, and settled in a variety of 'Freedmantowns' around the city. One of these Freedmantowns remained in the far north of the city in my own childhood...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...On March 26, 1974, approximately eight-thousand spectators filled the University of Southwestern Louisiana's basketball arena, the Blackham Coliseum, to hear some of the most popular artists of the region's dancehall...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Democratic Redeemers as it sought, in its beginnings, to unite Blacks and poor whites. Populism was concentrated in the agrarian southern, southwestern, and midwestern states. Its leaders, as one historian...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...census in DC, heading a household with two free non-white women and one free non-white man. He is not visible in the 1830 census. District of Columbia records list a...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...The shape of Juan Logan and Susan Harbage Page's installation mirrors that of the gallery in order to comment on how culture — rituals, codes, manners, and customs — is...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Norfolk, and Buxton, Iowa, congregated—sometimes along class lines, but always together," Earl Lewis argues. "In the southern context, congregation was important because it symbolized an act of free will, whereas segregation...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...(reductively) something like this: for decades after the Civil War, the South was a "Sahara of the Bozart," devoid of anything resembling "high" culture, until the arrival of native (white)...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...free women of color formed a benevolent organization, the Female Union Band Society (FUBS). A decade later and for $250, they engaged Joseph T. Mason—schoolteacher and free man of color—to...