Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...American South. His numerous essays and reviews appear in such journals as the Southern Literary Journal, Southern Quarterly, Mississippi Quarterly, American Literature, Southern Studies, Studies in American Humor, American Quarterly,...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...students seeking quality and equality in education, but citizens pursuing fair treatment in all walks of life have benefited from the court's interpretation of the US Constitution in Brown v....
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...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...the American Musicological Society 6, no. 1 (April 1, 1953): 46, https://doi.org/10.2307/829998. On fuging tunes, see also Karl Kroeger, American Fuging-Tunes, 1770–1820: A Descriptive Catalog (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994);...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...demonstration clubs for women. The segregated Negro Extension Service operated out of African American land grant universities and was supervised by white land grant schools. Still, African Americans eked out...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...a jazz banjo player from New Orleans named Don Vappie as an ultimate, socially adaptable, yet culturally grounded American—was a PBS film called American Creole.26American Creole: New Orleans Reunion, DVD,...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...group of women employed in maquiladoras) ; the Border Project of the American Friends Service Committee, a group that partnered with the CFO; and the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras,...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...Stevens . . . must be challenged by Christians in the name of the Lord," extolled the National Coalition of American Nuns. Forty-three-year-old Lucille Sampson, an African American who worked...
Our Backward Revolution
...of Xenophobia in the United States, scholars and journalists have described politicians’ exploitation of white/Anglo-Saxon/Protestant Americans’ fear and hatred of Native Americans, Catholics, Jews, Italians, and Hispanics.10John Higham, Strangers in...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...pair crafted hit songs for rap acts such as Mystikal, Jay-Z, and Scarface, to pop icons including Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, No Doubt, and Beyoncé. The pair founded the Star...