Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...industry might have created artificial barriers between white and black gospel cultures, but Harrison sees both cultures as unique because their fans and performers have interpreted gospel's meaning and spiritual...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Sacred Harp singings for its geographic range and provided a group of fifty Irish college students with their first exposure to the emphatic style and spiritual energy that characterizes large...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...ago he began to decline; his vapory disorders increased, his intellect seemed to fail. He turned very deaf, and lost much of his spirits and liveliness in preaching, but was...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...agents. Ellijay now signified not just a town or a coalition of communities but a spirit of opposition and independence made manifest in White Path. Such significance would lead to...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...marginalization that most Maya experience in Guatemala. Economic globalization and neo-liberal policies have further threatened the livelihood of many small farmers and workers in Guatemala, and have contributed to large-scale...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...plantations, in a sort of marginal space. Santiago was close enough to be subjected to some of the same policies as the plantation-dominated regions, but far enough to escape many...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Franciscans for causing unrest. The Franciscans gestured towards the abusive policies of the colonial government. And the Timicuas highlighted their dissatisfaction with "having to serve as cargadores," carrying food and...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...the white supremacist solidarities necessary for such political and economic reunification, with his speech elaborating policies that would assure federal appointments would not go to African Americans and that southern...
Our Backward Revolution
...caused by the neo-liberal policies of the last half century and the dominance of the nation’s new plutocracy.2Elizabeth Popp Berman, Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in US...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...describing how Pope had used his fortune to reshape the Republican Party into a reflection of his anti-government, pro-corporate policies. While supporters insist that his success is a triumph of...