Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...indignation." 3Reed, 13. The pervasive but varying conditions of white supremacy meant that the places where Black people could be their own free selves, away from everyday racial dangers and...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...celebration of Biggers's thirtieth anniversary at TSU, a number of former students wrote to express gratitude to their teacher. "Thanks for being a guiding light for young black artists," wrote...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...were weaker, more infertile, and more disease-prone than either of what Nott called the "pure" races. "Wild" Africans had been improved by the domesticating process of slavery. Freedom, however, would...
Residues of Border Control
...the United States." The quantification of the “success” of enforcement in number of immigrants deported and the imposition of detention quotas on immigration police also dehumanizes immigrants.4Spencer S. Hsu and...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...that left people who were unemployed or homeless without access to relief.5"Gov. Kemp Announces First Round of This Year's Special Tax Refund," Department of Revenue, May 1, 2023, https://dor.georgia.gov/press-releases/2023-05-01/gov-kemp-announces-first-round-years-special-tax-refund#:~:text=Single%20filers%20and%20married%20individuals,a%20maximum%20refund%20of%20%24500. Free99fridge...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...antidote to the 'vanishing' of LBJ" from the national stage. Enacting the redneck hippie, Nelson could "combine iconic Texasness and the airs of modern progressiveness" (163). What is significant about...
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...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...became a gospel song writer and businessman along with Ruebush (50–51). In 1866, the pair created "Ruebush & Kieffer," a gospel tune book publishing company at Singers Glen, Rockingham County,...
The Change
...to hold a six pack on ice. In the one hundred, fifteen degree summer heat with air so thick with moisture you drink as you breathe. Before the...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...A/C. I sat on a stool, he reclined in an electric wheelchair. It was my first visit with him. He recounted more to me, of his tours in World War...