Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...'Airs,'" writes Simpson, "I have gathered such as are popular, and extensively known. Many superstitious persons, and perhaps many good conscientious, well-meaning Christians, will denounce and reject the work on...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...amplifying the superimposition of paint with a string of nautical flags and a layer of shadowy oars painted inside the plexiglass that forms both a lid and a window for...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Food Blockade. The county board of supervisors’ decision to pull out of the federal surplus commodities program, a major food source for Black sharecroppers and farm workers, further spurred food...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...exclusively southern phenomenon. The South became the demonized geography against which Kansans gauged their virtue and measured their superiority. When racist violence appeared, white Kansans usually considered it to be...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...for Culture and Learning is filing preliminary paperwork to have the building added to the National Register of Historic Places, and the Bolivar County Board of Supervisors renamed the nearby...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...the home, bai-ko (patni, gharwali in Hindi), supervenes.12Another term that may well come from the same root (route?) is nivri in Kutchi, which refers to girls or young women sitting...
A Mess of Poke
...the pound to bring in the raw product. Allen ran its last batch of canned poke sallet in 2000. As the company's supervisor explained on an Arkansas Extension Service web...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
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The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...