Mississippi: State of Confession
...the continued resilience of white supremacy, Mississippi Praying closes by arguing that Christian moral suasion did little to effect change. For Dupont, the "holy symbiosis" of white supremacy and evangelicalism...
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...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...the meetups are creating that space and those forums where we might see a lot of productive exchange and take advantage of the remarkable research institutions that are located here."...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
.... . that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events . . . The Almighty...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...were evaporating. Herndon tried to rescue her efforts, appealing to David Belasco. But in spite of her repeated attempts to schedule a meeting, Belasco was unavailable. Had he changed his...
"Aint that Something?"
...gives his characters the gift of change and openness. There is a grace these characters possess, like fat Denny climbing so fast up the tree, like a bear, to save...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...compelled to contend and collaborate with one another constantly on the overlapping, interlocked terrain of neighborhoods. To examine how neighborhoods change our understanding of slave society, consider the ways this...
Deep Ellum Blues
...youth culture, and changed its cultural associations, even in Texas itself. When Texas musicians such as Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Jerry Jeff Walker created their own native blend of...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...bureaucrats pressured local Texas medical authorities to change their restrictive smallpox inoculation policies. Texas's United States Public Health Service (USPHS) officials, however, defied the request to respect Mexican nationals and...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...Boots and on the road.3See the riff on the “gospel impulse,” in Craig Werner, A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race, and Soul of America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan...