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From Gospel to Gates: Modal Blending in African-American Musical Discourse before the Signifyin(g) Monkey [PDF]
, 2011 Despite its origins in the literary realm, Henry Louis Gates The Signfiyin(g) Monkey: A Theory of African-American literary criticism has become a standard methodological text for the study of African-American music.
Coady, Christopher
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Southern Spaces, 2006 Transformed in the 1950s from a sharecropper shack that was built probably in the 1920s, Poor Monkey's Lounge is the one of the last rural jook joints in the Mississippi Delta.
Luther Brown
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Review Of Conjure In African American Society By J.E. Anderson [PDF]
, 2006 Anderson (history, Middle Georgia College) looks at the history of black American magical beliefs and practices that are known variously as hoodoo, voodoo, tricking, mojo, and conjure, among other terms. According to Anderson, conjure is not a religion,
Chireau, Yvonne Patricia
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Unspeakable Silences, When Poetry Ceases to be a Luxury, Black Tulips, My Eggs [PDF]
, 2013 Melissa Castillo-Garsow is a Mexican-American writer, journalist, and scholar currently pursuing a PhD in American Studies and African American Studies at Yale University. Her short stories and poetry have been published in various journals including The
Castillo-Garsow, Melissa A
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They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
Southern Spaces, 2009 Amy Louise Wood revisits an operahouse lynching in Livermore, Kentucky.
Amy Louise Wood
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Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Southern Spaces, 2012 Sarah H. Hill reviews An Empire of Small Places: Mapping the Southeastern Anglo-Indian Trade, 1732–1795 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012) by Robert Paulett.
Sarah H. Hill
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Healthy Communities Matter: The Importance of Place to the Health of Boys of Color [PDF]
, 2010 Summarizes a study of health disparities and trauma among African-American and Latino/Hispanic boys, the underlying social inequality and negative neighborhood conditions, and the need for a healing approach.
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The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
Southern Spaces, 2011 Yoshio Koya, Jackson, State Capitol Building, in Tengoku Amerika, Jigoku Amerika (Heaven America/Hell America) (Tokyo: Deido Shuppansha, 1951), 85. This essay revisits Japanese public health official Yoshio Koya's trip to the US South in 1950 ...
Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci
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Pedagogies of Race: The Politics of Whiteness in an African American Studies Course [PDF]
, 2011 This paper evaluates students\u27 arguments for a color-blind society to avoid discussions related to the continued existence of racism in USA culture.
Jones, Regina V.
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Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
Southern Spaces, 2007 Speaking at Emory University on April 13, 2007, Dr. Womack explores the complex historical relationship between African Americans and the Creek Confederacy through a close reading of two short stories by Creek author Alexander Posey: "Uncle Dick and ...
Craig Womack
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