When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...in America. https://vimeo.com/478092922/d9ece1993b Donald Lawrence and the Tri-City Singers performing "When Sunday Comes." From Bible Stories (1995). For many of the artists in When Sunday Comes, singing gospel was not...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...sexual assault in Indian Country. The other day I went out to my mailbox. Hope reigns eternal that someday there will be something good in there, and there was! Instead...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...been damaged by environmental disaster, falling crop prices, worsening poverty and disease, New Deal agricultural policies, and the mechanization of cotton production. Now landowners had decided to hire day laborers...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...day," Ward remembered, "he'd sit behind me in class. Every day he call me nigger. Every day, every day." She was recalling the student who dedicated himself to taunting her—quietly...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...what to do.34Weathers, Shitkickers, 44. This shared emotional response builds upon the story's central engagement with the day-to-day struggles of gay men and women and disenchantment that the story increasingly...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Ozarks. The store is the modern-day equivalent of the old-timey gristmill, a place of congregation for anyone with a minute to spare. I began the Arkansas component of a long-term...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Weekly 25, no. 1275 (June 4, 1881). Decoration Day, later known as Memorial Day, originated in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War as an annual observance in which each...
Our Backward Revolution
...Doubleday, 2016); Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World (New York: Doubleday, 2024). Over the last half century, bankrolled by their wealthy backers, this reactionary...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...region in southern literature—with the following introduction: I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...degree of isolation or loneliness before, things that many queer people have been and continue to be all too familiar with, unfortunately so, day to day as many of us...