Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...South Carolina,5Peter McCandless, Moonlight, Magnolia and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996). little scholarship has...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...Kentucky with Margot Mayo, founder of the American Square Dance Group, whose uncle, Rufus Crisp, was a banjo player from Allen, Kentucky. Crisp had recorded for the Library of Congress...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...23, 2018, https://southernspaces.org/2017/mapping-big-minutes-visualizing-sacred-harps-geographic-coalescence-and-expansion-1995-2014. The Mt. Lebanon Singing also serves as this Independent Baptist church's homecoming and as a reunion for the Ballinger family, a number of whose members are active...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...hours later, in Jacksonville, Florida, the Jewish Community Center survived a similar bomb attack.5Southern Jewish Weekly, May 2, 1958; Richmond Afro-American, May 3, 1958. Synagogues across the South immediately intensified...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Rainey in 1924.1Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, vocal performance of "See See Rider Blues" by Ma Rainey and Lena Arant, recorded October 16, 1924, by Paramount, catalogue number 12252, 78 rpm. With "Betty and Dupree,"...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...of African Americans from the South played football in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and the Southwest Conference (SWC), leaving the best African American high-school players...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...to portray all the heroic feminine characters of Shakespeare." (Boston Traveler, January 25, 1904). From her childhood in Savannah, through her drama studies in Boston and New York, Adrienne held...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...ethnically homogeneous as is often maintained. Only if the African American presence is ignored can one conclude that the South lacks ethnic diversity. Indeed, the South as a region is...
Cajun South Louisiana
...Map Collection, University of Texas. While many people associate the southwest Louisiana home of the Cajuns with swamplands, its environment also consists of marshes, prairies, and wooded river areas. The...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...as they watched white guardians try to assert mastery over the African and African American women, men, and children they enslaved. These US-educated youth then returned to their tribal nations—and...