Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...commercial walking canes. A deacon uses his staff for many duties. It may be used as a pointer during usher duties. Also, it may be used during a baptism to...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Land Lottery Register, 250. Ross's Head of Coosa possessions included his two-story house, sixty-five acres of cultivated fields, a kitchen, work house, smoke house, blacksmith shop, wagon house, stables, slave...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...argues that the Poro-Sande societies of present-day Sierra Leone and Liberia were adapted to and fused with the Gullah Christian practice of "seekin" to create adult initiation rites. The prevalence...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...University of Illinois Press, 1994); Charles M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996); Susie Erenrich,...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
Introduction Mary E. Frederickson, Tending an early twentieth century Draper loom made in Massachusetts for use in mills across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama, Margilan, Uzbekistan, 2006. I heard the...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...slogan “Long Live UNIA”—and a handwritten DNA sequence. Bailey had learned, in 2006, that markers in his DNA indicated a bloodline rooted in Sierra Leone and in Guinea. The shadowbox...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...fathers to sons and in the supposedly free exchange of affectional ties between a male and female of his choice—becomes the mythically revered privilege of a free and freed community"...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...better after the treatment, and some even experienced dramatic transformations in their bodies. Myriad scattered sources buttress this point. In one case history after another, the report used phrases such...
Editorial Style Guide
...Manual of Style. The journal uses Webster's Dictionary as arbiter for spelling and definitions. Punctuation and capitalization Abbreviations For plurals of abbreviations, use an apostrophe before the s if the...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...the special and active exchange that occurs between the performance and the audience member[] illustrat[es] the breakdown of division between audience and creative crew."56Machon, Immersive Theatres, 98. The orientation of...