New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
The New Orleans-based Amistad Research Center is the nation's oldest, largest, and most comprehensive independent archive specializing in African American history and culture. For the first time in its history,...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...familiar format of a pieced block. Originally made from silk and tie-dyed to create decorative patterns in red or blue, bandannas were among textiles imported from India in the eighteenth...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...on my songs. 2. DeSoto speaks I have seen him before all over the world. This Indian, this Tuscaloosa, this red man with the black name dares to think he...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...the hurricane, highlighting the presence of the Mardi Gras Indians Part 7: Spitzer explores how The Second Line fuses performance and space, work and play; features an interview with Gregory Davis...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
FOR ALL THE CRACKER PACKIN' GIRLS fourteen, I’m packin’ crates Fairmont Foods--Cary, NC only mixed-blood "Indian blonde" girl around only factory workside worker not black all of us under white...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Shreveport, Louisiana images
Shreveport, Louisiana: Landscaping, El Dorado Casino Resort Today, the downtown and waterfront areas, bustle with tourist, most of whom gamble at one of several riverboat casinos. Artist's Rendering of RiverView...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...patterns today called "Rob Peter to Pay Paul." These patterns became popular during the late-nineteenth century and were published under many names during the twentieth. The common element is the...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
I walk red roads, unpaved, blowing away, kicking leeched-dry clay. August. Near a lake fenced with chain link, red brick walls of the cotton mill shine in mid-morning Southern sun....
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...lynched African Americans for alleged offenses that challenged white supremacy, Villanueva argues that Anglos lynched Mexicans to police "citizenship and sovereignty" (5). Although Mexican Americans were "white by law" since...