"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...street in BVL that housed "New Yoricans, Italians, Cubans, Filipinos, Indians, Jamaicans, Colombians, Brits, Anglos, and Puerto Ricans."48Phil Fernandez and John Conway, "Osceola Hispanics Blend of Cultures, Traditions, Food," Orlando...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...in this context by Mardi Gras Indians, second lines, and social aid and pleasure clubs) comprise the theoretical center of New Orleans Suite, Watts and Porter also spend much time...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...desegregation.5Crenshaw, 376. Pre-Brown Map showing the location of Mableton, Georgia, 2012. Virginia Ward's people were "Indians from Black Hawk Hill," and they had owned property in Mableton for many years....
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...with over 72,000 Confederate and over 100,000 Union men engaged, the map highlights nearly all of the counties in the North and South except those in southern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...
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...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
Presentation Part 2: Peter Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville" Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Presbyterians who kept hallooing and whooping without Door like Indians." He calls them "Ignorant, mean, worthless, beggarly Irish Presbyterians, the Scum of the Earth, and Refuse of Mankind."5Woodmason, 17, 60....
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
Review Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry, Cambridge University Press, 2011. In a few days, well before the first mosquito-killing frost reaches the South Carolina Lowcountry, I’ll head...