New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...Amistad announced on December 3 that they will be adding New Orleans hip-hop and bounce music to their historic collection. "Recent donations by the NOLA Hiphop Archive and the Where...
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: Part 2: White describes the lengths both men went to in an attempt to gain subsidies and credit for their respective railroads Part 3: White shows...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...in the corner of the room, making small talk in Cajun French even though my "project" tries to avoid nativist ideologies about Louisiana culture.2For instance, the ideologies that promote a...
Mississippi Delta
...labor shortage that promoted the consolidation of farm lands, diversification of crops beyond cotton, and the mechanization of plantations. Beginning with the Dixiecrat movement of the 1948 presidential campaign, the...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...of our basic assumptions. I had not initially thought that Delaware could be rendered quite so emblematic and generative. I was wrong. The version of Delaware's history that emerges in...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Movement in American Memory (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006). Chroniclers of the black freedom struggle have long sought to dispel the collective memory that undergirds what local state officials...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...be an artist outside of the home, she made her home the focus of her artistic talent, designing a landmark that would memorialize her work and that of her family. ...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990). and that it chose to administer its agricultural programs through existing institutions that favored local elites.7 Philip Selznick, TVA and the Grass Roots: A Study...
Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.
...his archival holdings in the African American collections at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Best known for artist books that narrate African American history in striking...
The Border South
...from the deeper South dismiss these places as not representative of the region; at other times Northerners make the comment, often with a sigh of relief that the person would...