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...
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,...
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...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...when people look at what we have, most of them would not understand why we would even have a frustration. But it's just knowing what you had and what you...
At Sun Ra's Grave
Birmingham, 2001 Now our god's dismantled, iron arms, iron hands now laid away, vacant head beside his vacant feet. Vulcan, God of All the Fire That Sleeps in Mountains now...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
.... that on that continent we are trying to forge a new identity, that we need each other, that I am not a ward of America, I am not an...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...around and within, creating a geography that is boundary crossing and somewhat nebulous by definition and limitation. In such a vast space, what is the rationale for the foci of...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Florida, and parts of Louisiana"—is a "socio-cultural model" that allows her to explore the historical complexities of an increasingly multiethnic space and not "some projection backward in time of what...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...the states surrounding you that your place is more backwards, that you are hicks. And, of course, the media delivered that message all the time about "hillbillies." So I understood...