Let Me Do My Thang: Rebirth Brass Band
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Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...University of California Santa Cruz, and Eric Porter, a University of California Santa Cruz American Studies and history professor, take the title of their book from a five-movement Duke Ellington-composed...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...and well-preserved Native American (Guale) shellring on the northwestern corner of the island gives evidence that humans have experienced Sapelo for at least 4,500 years. The arrival of the Spanish...
Negotiating Black Identities
...on the construciton and reproduction of class-based identities among middle-class Blacks. Prof. Lacy's lecture was sponsored by the Emory American Studies Program and the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts....
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...of me. Making History All I know of the Spanish-American War is what Virginia boys, kept safe at college, etched into the mortar with their pencils so that leaning against...
1108 Dynamite Hill
Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265& Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
Same-Sex Intimacy in the Fiction of Southern Plantations Part 2: Bibler refers to Gaines’s novel Of Love and Dust, focusing on how same-sex relations can disrupt plantation hierarchies Part 3:...
Rising Up
Video Community Ideas Station, Excerpt from Rising Up, 2005....
#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black Lives
Presentation Question & Answer Session About the Speaker Dr. Brittney Cooper is assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She received her PhD in American Studies from the...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...co-founded NEXUS, Atlanta’s first photography gallery, in 1973. Originally from Worcester, Massachusetts, Simone studied at the Rhode Island School of Design with modern American photography master Harry Callahan. Simone’s photos...