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Full-Text Articles in American Studies
Aa Ms 19 Eugene Jackson Papers, Emily Margaret Newell
Aa Ms 19 Eugene Jackson Papers, Emily Margaret Newell
Search the Manuscript Collection (Finding Aids)
This collection is comprised of family photographs, photo albums, bibles, hymnals, and newspaper from the early 20th century onward. The collection is organized into three series:
Series 1: Photographs
This series includes the personal photographs of Eugene Jackson’s friends and family as far back as the early 1900s. The most common themes and activities found in these photographs are leisure activities such as trips to the beach or the mountains, family get-togethers, professional portraits, and Christmas greeting cards.
Subseries 1.1: Loose Photographs
Loose photographs are organized into topical folders.
Subseries 1.2: Ruby Family Photograph Album
The photograph album includes black-and-white …
Review Of Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community, By John M. Coggeshall, Cicero Fain
Review Of Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community, By John M. Coggeshall, Cicero Fain
History Faculty Research
Examining 150 years of history of a small, rural African American community, John M. Coggeshall’s Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community, contributes to recent studies elevating Black Appalachian voices, perspectives, and cultures previously historically elided. Located in Pickens County in the Blue Ridge region of western South Carolina, Liberia, like a lot of rural communities, exists less “as a legally defined entity and more a culturally defined area of recognized neighborly ties.”
African American Sacred Music And The Romantic Aesthetic, Brooksie Harrington
African American Sacred Music And The Romantic Aesthetic, Brooksie Harrington
English Faculty Working Papers
Gospel music affects every aspect of African American culture, and the similarities between the African American sacred music aesthetic and the Romantic aesthetic share a theme of religiosity that is contained in the correlative of the mythopoetic “seam.” This seam meshes together analysis that explores the natural sublime, as suggested in the writings of such scholars as William Wordsworth, Pierre Proudhon, Samuel Coleridge, James Weldon Johnson, Henry L. Gates, and Anthony Heilbut.
Black And White Notes: Segregation, Integration, And Urban Renewal Through Pittsburgh's Locals 60 And 471, Nathan Seeley
Black And White Notes: Segregation, Integration, And Urban Renewal Through Pittsburgh's Locals 60 And 471, Nathan Seeley
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation explores Pittsburgh’s Locals 60, 471, and 60-471 of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) from the late nineteenth century to the mid-1960s. Local 60 was founded in 1896 for white musicians and Local 471 in 1908 for black musicians. While other studies of the AFM take a “top-down” approach, this study examines these Locals from the “bottom-up.” In doing so, it re-examines the causal relationship between music/musicians and the social, political, and economic conditions intersecting with them. This dissertation is built upon seventy-two interviews conducted between former Local 471 members in the 1990s, photographs from Teenie Harris Collection …
Spirituality Among Black Americans: A Hierarchical Classification Of The Family Strengths Model, Genese Clark
Spirituality Among Black Americans: A Hierarchical Classification Of The Family Strengths Model, Genese Clark
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
There is a need for disaggregate data pertaining to the perceived strengths of Black American families. This study identified which traits are salient and dominant among African-American families according to the Family Strengths Model. Utilizing this model, a mixed methods study was conducted among Black Americans living in Connecticut who identify with belonging to a family (N=59) to investigate the importance of six family strength domains. Results found the hierarchical rank (from most important to least important) to be commitment, spirituality/ spiritual wellbeing, appreciation and affection, positive communication, time together, and the ability to manage stress and crisis effectively. Additionally, …
Rose’S Gift: Slavery, Kinship, And The Fabric Of Memory, Mark J. Auslander
Rose’S Gift: Slavery, Kinship, And The Fabric Of Memory, Mark J. Auslander
All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences
One of the most evocative objects in the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is an embroidered cloth bag that has come to be known as “Ashley’s Sack”. Stitch-work on the bag, signed “Ruth Middleton”, recounts the bag’s painful history, as a gift presented by an enslaved woman, Rose, to her daughter Ashley, when Ashley was sold at age nine in South Carolina. This paper explores ‘Ashley’s sack’ as an object of history, memory, ritual action, and aesthetic creativity.
Who Can Afford To Improvise? James Baldwin And Black Music, The Lyric And The Listeners [Table Of Contents], Ed Pavlic
Literature
More than a quarter-century after his death, James Baldwin remains an unparalleled figure in American literature and African American cultural politics. In Who Can Afford to Improvise? Ed Pavlić offers an unconventional, lyrical, and accessible meditation on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin and their relationship to the lyric tradition in black music, from gospel and blues to jazz and R&B. Based on unprecedented access to private correspondence, unpublished manuscripts and attuned to a musically inclined poet’s skill in close listening, Who Can Afford to Improvise? frames a new narrative of James Baldwin’s work and life.
The route …
A Theodicy Of Redemptive Suffering In African American Involvement Led By Absalom Jones And Richard Allen In The Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic Of 1793, Kyle Boone
Undergraduate Student Scholarship – History
This paper is a historical investigation into the involvement of African Americans during the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. It explores key figures, details, medical realities, and media representation. The particular focus lies on the dilemma of suffering in the world and how the African American understanding of evil in this community led to their decision of involvement. Their understanding of theodicy will be weighed against modern philosophical and theological attempts to deal with theodicy.
'People Want To See What Happened': Treme, Televisual Tourism, And The Racial Remapping Of Post-Katrina New Orleans, Lynnell L. Thomas
'People Want To See What Happened': Treme, Televisual Tourism, And The Racial Remapping Of Post-Katrina New Orleans, Lynnell L. Thomas
American Studies Faculty Publication Series
Occupying the space between cultural reproduction and theatrical production, the HBO series Treme offers an important vantage point from which to analyze the intersection of race, class, culture, and media representation animating New Orleans’s post-Katrina tourist identity. Treme illustrates the tension between the welcome recognition and celebration of New Orleans black expressive culture and its spectacularization and commodification. The resuscitation of tourist tropes and an emphasis on jazz and heritage music in the series often render the city’s history of racial conflict and injustice invisible or subordinate to new narratives of cross-racial unity among Katrina survivors and paternalistic actions by …
Women Of African Descent: Persistence In Completing A Doctorate, Vannetta L. Bailey-Iddrisu
Women Of African Descent: Persistence In Completing A Doctorate, Vannetta L. Bailey-Iddrisu
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This study examines the educational persistence of women of African descent (WOAD) in pursuit of a doctorate degree at universities in the southeastern United States. WOAD are women of African ancestry born outside the African continent. These women are heirs to an inner dogged determination and spirit to survive despite all odds (Pulliam, 2003, p. 337).This study used Ellis’s (1997) Three Stages for Graduate Student Development as the conceptual framework to examine the persistent strategies used by these women to persist to the completion of their studies.
'Roots Run Deep Here': The Construction Of Black New Orleans In Post-Katrina Tourism Narratives, Lynnell L. Thomas
'Roots Run Deep Here': The Construction Of Black New Orleans In Post-Katrina Tourism Narratives, Lynnell L. Thomas
American Studies Faculty Publication Series
This article explores the emergent post-Katrina tourism narrative and its ambivalent racialization of the city. Tourism officials are compelled to acknowledge a New Orleans outside the traditional tourist boundaries – primarily black, often poor, and still largely neglected by the city and national governments. On the other hand, tourism promoters do not relinquish (and do not allow tourists to relinquish) the myths of racial exoticism and white supremacist desire for a construction of blacks as artistically talented but socially inferior.
Transcultural Transformation: African American And Native American Relations, Barbara S. Tracy
Transcultural Transformation: African American And Native American Relations, Barbara S. Tracy
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The intersected lives of African Americans and Native Americans result not only in Black Indians, but also in a shared culture that is evidenced by music, call and response, and story. These intersected lives create a dynamic of shared and diverging pathways that speak to each other. It is a crossroads of both anguish and joy that comes together and apart again like the tradition of call and response. There is a syncopation of two cultures becoming greater than their parts, a representation of losses that are reclaimed by a greater degree. In the tradition of call and response, by …
Toni Morrison: Playing In The Dark, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Toni Morrison: Playing In The Dark, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Ralph Ellison: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Ralph Ellison: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Toni Morrison: Jazz, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Toni Morrison: Jazz, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Toni Morrison: Paradise, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Toni Morrison: Paradise, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Ann Petry: The Narrows, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Ann Petry: The Narrows, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Ann Petry: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Ann Petry: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Ann Petry: Country Place, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Ann Petry: Country Place, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Ann Petry: Miss Muriel And Other Stories, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Ann Petry: Miss Muriel And Other Stories, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Ann Petry: The Street, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Ann Petry: The Street, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Toni Morrison: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Toni Morrison: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Toni Morrison: Sula, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Toni Morrison: Sula, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Dorothy West: The Living Is Easy, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Dorothy West: The Living Is Easy, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Dorothy West: The Wedding, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Dorothy West: The Wedding, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Dorothy West: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Dorothy West: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Dorothy West: The Richer, The Poorer: Stories, Sketches, Reminiscences, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Dorothy West: The Richer, The Poorer: Stories, Sketches, Reminiscences, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Gwendolyn Brooks: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Gwendolyn Brooks: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.