Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...d'Argent Expo in Alsace, France, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and at numerous other national and international galleries. Among other honors she was recognized by the Mississippi Institute...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...workers, veterans, immigrants, undocumented workers, drug addicts, and other people on the social and cultural margins sought work as day laborers. Even though these workers were peripheral in their social...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Mexican agricultural workers in Brownfield. Weathers's experiences in Mary Ellen's Top Hat reveal that, in facilitating cross-racial dialogue, racially integrated gay bars in San Antonio were potential sites of racial...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...6 (October, 1970): 971–1203; Michael Schaller, "The Federal Prohibition of Marihuana," Journal of Social History 4, no. 1 (October 1970): 61–74; Lester Grinspoon, Marihuana Reconsidered (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...as Hearing the Call attests, she possesses multi-generational knowledge about community genealogies predating Creek Removal from ancestral homelands in Alabama and Georgia in 1836 as well as a command of specific family...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...or too infirm to labor. By January 1864, dwellings had been constructed along with a church, hospital, and home for the aged—all aligned on well laid-out streets with a park...
Religion and the US South
...environmental, demographic, economic, social, and cultural factors of religious development. Spatial and social places mattered. Commonalities existed across social barriers but experiences varied depending on whether you were a Mississippi...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...singing tradition centered in Hoboken, Brantley County, Georgia. This is not a term local singers from the region use to describe their tradition, although—as described in this essay—some local singers...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...to quote Peniel Joseph, "the idea of a postracial American future remains an unrealizable but worthy goal rather than a political fait accompli."27Peniel E. Joseph, "Our National Postracial Hangover: With...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Atlanta's history, politics, and the arts converge ... [They are] responsible for some of the most prominent aural and visual aesthetics that have come to define the South."1 Fahamu Pecou, phone...