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...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...(16). Here, The Land Was Ours gestures towards African Americans' historic lack of access to state power that made coastal capitalism possible in the first place—a dilemma that undergirds blacks'...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...for an overview of what some singers have regarded as the “Sacred Harp revival.” For many, however, participation in Sacred Harp singing is a choice that has nothing to do...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...PA 4970. It is estimated that by the time of its closing the Burgert Brothers studio had produced as many as 80,000 negatives that documented diverse aspects of life in...
Submission Guidelines
...to publishing articles, reviews, photo and video essays that center on the place-based experiences of people and social groups that are often left out of mainstream narratives. We do not...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...and created what bell hooks has called "a counterhegemonic world of images" that rebutted the racist caricatures found in popular culture and in the work of some white photographers.3bell hooks,...
The Nature of Rights
...in eastern Canada. But his revolutionary argument, that rivers are indeed alive, despite all that humans have done to try to kill them, finds resonance in the US South, with...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...tradition but also ensured that gospel remained embedded in African American culture. That embeddedness has surfaced in a variety of cultural contexts and arenas and continues to do so: BET's...
Image Credits
...the public domain. "Love More, Hate Less," Pulse Orlando Memorial site, Orlando, Florida, December 29, 2016. Photograph by Eric Solomon. "No One Stands Alone," Atlanta Pride, Atlanta, GA, October 2017. Photograph by Eric...