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Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

Southern Spaces, 2015
Natasha Trethewey welcomes the 2014 Callaloo Conference, "Making Art: Writing, Authorship, and Critique," and Charles Henry Rowell describes the significance of this scholarly gathering hosted at Emory University.
Natasha Trethewey, Charles Henry Rowell
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Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

Southern Spaces, 2016
In this photo essay, Lydia A. Harris presents facades and interiors of several homes in Collier Heights, a historic district in Atlanta, Georgia. All photographs by Lydia A. Harris.
Lydia A. Harris
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Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves

Southern Spaces, 2021
Aaron Witcher reviews Valérie Loichot\'s Water Graves: The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020).
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Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

Southern Spaces, 2004
This guide provides an introduction to the rich and varied blues traditions of the Lower Chattahoochee Valley. It includes original documentary footage of area musicians, including interviews and music clips.
Steve Bransford
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Viewing Inside the Invisible: African Atlantic visual arts in the 1990s [PDF]

, 2013
This article examines work by a variety of African Atlantic artists who investigated slavery and memory in the 1990s. They range from the maverick African-American artists and interventionists, Kara Walker and Fred Wilson, through the Cuban artist, Maria
Rice, Alan
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When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras

Southern Spaces, 2020
Weaving insightful analysis into a brief biography of gospel icon John P. Kee, Claudrena N. Harold explores gospel music\'s essential place as an outlet for African Americans to express their spiritual and cultural selves.
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Art and Storytelling on the Streets: The Council on Interracial Books for Children’s Use of African American Children’s Literature

Humanities, 2023
From 1970 until 1974, the Council on Interracial Children’s Books (CIBC) ran the Arts and Storytelling in the Streets program throughout New York City. This program involved African American and Puerto Rican artists and storytellers bringing children’s ...
Nick Batho
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The fifty-two hand blocks re-framed: Rehabilitation of a vernacular martial art [PDF]

, 2016
From the late 1980s, a cluster of related African-American vernacular fighting styles became a focus of contention among martial artists. Over the next twenty years, evidence drawn from popular culture, social science, and sport validated the ...
Green, Thomas A.
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Joshua McCarter's Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)

Southern Spaces, 2020
A prophetic Black voice from the mid-nineteenth century calls out present-day presidential hypocrisy.
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Rechercher et imaginer l’art « black » américain depuis 2005

Perspective, 2015
The literature on black artists, their art, the aesthetics of racial difference and cultural distinctiveness, and the black image has grown incrementally, from a rare phenomenon at the beginning of the twentieth century to a relatively common occurrence ...
Richard J. Powell
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