Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...Rivers, Langston Hughes Lobby, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York, New York, May 22, 2011. Flickr photograph by Matt Kingston. This public art installation...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...of Kansas."41Pratt Republican, September 8, 1910. As compelling as the Free State narrative was, there were instances too obvious to ignore. When students at the University of Kansas raided the...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...of musical space and time" (7). For instance, blues for Comentale is "variously a feeling, a mood, a nameless threat, a person, a lover, a bossman, a mob, and, of...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...— and in many instances shared — fellow white southerners' taboos against "social equality." They opposed lynching but were not universally in favor of federal anti-lynching legislation, and they advocated...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...reaches its conclusion.10"Providence," music by C. Curtis (1820), words by Isaac Watts (1719), in McGraw et al., 298. Two instances of "thunder and lightning" between the tenor and treble parts...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round program, an instant and enduring success, and, later, the Saturday night Tennessee Barn Dance, a rival of the Opry. On WROL, country music programming also flourished, mostly under...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...Rush in New Orleans," Los Angeles Times, April 4, 2006, A10. Latino workers have gutted, roofed and painted houses, installed drywalls, and hauled away garbage, debris, and downed trees. They...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...rapid increase in population in postwar Japan. They feared that population pressure and economic instability could once again push the nation into aggressive expansionism, possibly resulting in another war. Advancing...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...form of the installations, something akin but not limited to the post-minimalist school of sculptural thought. I don’t have a concrete or specific school of thought surrounding what I do...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Uprising in the early morning of June 28, 1969, when LGBTQ+ people—particularly those who were Black and Brown—fought back.15Although the most well-known, the Stonewall Uprising was not the first instance...