Religion and the US South
...of Christ, a theologically conservative and morally strict group that grew out of the Presbyterians, are often one of the numerically largest and culturally powerful religious groups from middle Tennessee,...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...same disease causes fatal ravages in the Philippines and the Southern States, hence all Americans are concerned."80Adam Haeselbarth, "The Puerto Rican Government's Fight with Anemia," American Monthly Review of Reviews...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...catalyzed reciprocal travel among fledgling Sacred Harp singing groups in Europe. Reciprocal travel, which helped sustain a plethora of rural southern singings in the wake of massive out-migration during the...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...they want to live the "American Dream", they need to be American. Americans speak English. If we keep catering to these people they will have no reason to learn English....
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...practice of experience. Lowe travels imaginatively through literary texts. Jelly-Schapiro travels literally to examine histories and cultures of the islands he visits. However, like King, both ask readers big, overarching...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...American life. In her work on symbolism in African American literature and visual culture, Sharpe argues that the wake symbolizes the "endurance of anti-Blackness . . . the on-going problem...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...of the venerable Arkansas Traveler colloquy in which a high-born southerner (the Traveler) engages an Arkansas Squatter in a dialogue about the differences of class and geography.60Bill Clinton's presidential campaign...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...labor positions in the early to mid-1980s. Following the arrival of Latinos beginning in the late 1980s, by 2000 Latinos outnumbered African Americans at catch-out corners, but African American men...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...E. Staub, Voices of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (London and New...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...On Western Subjects: Locating Autobiographical Writing in the North American West (University of Utah Press, 2005). Introduction In his 1943 autobiography Bound for Glory, the American folksinger Woody Guthrie mythologizes...