New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...Water. The Amistad collection plans to be publically available and free of charge (either online or in person at Amistad) as a digital archive of oral histories in the spring...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...sit-ins and commercial-bus freedom rides of 1960–1961. In later years, Campbell spoke eloquently against the Vietnam War, capital punishment, unregulated guns, overbearing government power, abortion on demand, and the invasion...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...people and places that foregrounds photography’s jumbling of time. In very different ways, they hold the place or person—the subject—steady so time can float free. William Christenberry, Greensboro, Hale County,...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
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White-blossoming trees In front of the house In Sparta, Georgia, Where they together lived: Free woman of color (black, white, Cherokee), white male slaver, and their children who slept with...
Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road
...the Freedom Riders they've chased from Anniston, still smoked out and choking on the grass. So much else is gone — the grocery where the driver ran "for help," the...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations (New York: Random House, 2012), 36, 60, 90, 320; Samuel G. Freedman, "Using Gospel Music's Secrets to Confront...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...irony through emphasizing stereotypes of the free-loving hippie and the provincial redneck. But just how ironic depictions can transcend the dualism of the hippie-redneck alliance with rhetoric that highlights those...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...free market innovation. These cultural ideologies, concludes Wuthnow, shaped and impacted religion in Texas well into the twentieth century. Top, "Don't Mess with Texas," former Texas Govenor Rick Perry covers...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...his voice," as Comentale explains, "or, rather, he declaimed it—he sang it in order to free it, in an open, vital process, one that asserted, with each refrain, the utterly...