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Afrissippi, Peter Muvunyi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines how Guelel Kumba, a Senegalese Fulani griot, chef, and musician currently residing in Oxford, Mississippi, incorporates West African cuisine and music into his daily life in the South. This profile study asks: How does Kumba's performances and cooking translate Fulani heritage into Mississippi's blues and soul-food scenes? The research employed observation, secondary sources, purposeful semi-structured interviews, and a documentary.

Kumba views tradition as an arsenal, preserving its essential rhythms and flavors while reworking family recipes and tunes to suit local tastes. Customers can eat, listen, and interact their way into shared history at his food truck and …

Alternative Southern Communities: Cultural Other "Asians" In Contemporary Fiction About The American South, Mariko Hiwatashi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This project explores the representation of minority groups in contemporary U.S. Southern literature, with a particular focus on Asian communities. It not only challenges the conventional perception that Asians in America are primarily associated with the West Coast but also underscores how Asian representation in literature plays a crucial role in illuminating the complexities of regional identity and social structure in the American South.

Historically, Asian immigrants have been part of the Southern landscape since the eighteenth century when Filipino sailors settled in New Orleans. Chinese immigrants also played essential roles as laborers in the post-slavery South. However, their experiences …

Southern Register. 2022.3 (Fall 2022), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

Making Africa Accessible: Bringing Guinea-Bissau Into The University Classroom, Brandon D. Lundy

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.

Opening The American University: African American, Latino/A, And Women's Activism In Higher Education And Postwar Politics, 1964-1985, Jillian Elizabeth Mcclure

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

After the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, student and faculty activists at public, flagship universities used existing civil rights organizations and founded new activist groups to bring attention to barriers that hindered their equal power and participation within higher education. African Americans, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and women created grassroots campaigns and worked within institutional structures to reform universities between 1964 and 1985. Activists worked separately and across gender, racial, and ethnic lines in attempts to gain authority, power, and self-determination within the university system. Students and faculty asserted that flagship universities needed to serve the needs …

Undertaking Partition: Palestine And Postcolonial Studies, Salah D. Hassan

Journal X

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Syrian And Lebanese Identity In The American South, Caetlind Moudy

Honors Theses

For Americans of Arab descent, identity can present a number of difficulties to define within the existing ethnic and racial categories of the United States. While several scholars have looked at the ways that Muslims American of Arab descent navigate these categories, less attention has been paid to the complex self-identification Christian Arab Americans, many of whom come from Lebanese and Syrian backgrounds. It is the objective of this thesis to explore how Americans of Syrian and Lebanese descent understand their ethnic, racial, cultural, and national identities as well as how these identities both inform and are informed by religion. …

Southern Register. 2019.3 (Fall 2019), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

Two Southtalks Events Planned For This Week, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

There are two opportunities to "Be in Barnard" this week. Starting at noon on Wednesday, Sept. 11 Carrie Barske Crawford and Brian Dempsey present "Hidden Spaces," and at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, Edmund T. Gordon and Celeste Henery present "Exploring the Racial Geography of UT-Austin." Both events will be held in the Tupelo Room of Barnard Observatory.

Southtalks Series Mines Interdisciplinary Nature Of Southern Studies, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

University of Mississippi News

Multiculturalism and social justice topic of first lecture Sept. 4

Southtalks Series Mines Interdisciplinary Nature Of Southern Studies, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

Multiculturalism and social justice topic of first lecture Sept. 4 Written By Rebecca Lauck Cleary The SouthTalks series, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, kicks off Sept. 4 with a fall lineup that showcases the work of professors, alumni and documentarians in various fields.

Um Project Featured On National Coalition Website, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

No abstract provided.

Southern Register. 2017.3 (Fall 2017), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

Center Welcomes Incoming Graduate Classes, Admin

Blog Posts

This fall, southern studies launches its new master of fine arts in documentary expression program. The goal of this new program is to teach students who already possess considerable skill and experience in documentary techniques and interdisciplinary scholarship to produce documentary films, photography, or audio projects of high quality. The background for this idea is that the southern studies MA program has graduated numerous students who, as they complete the program, say they wish they had the time and attention to apply their newly learned skills to a polished project.

Umsrg Member Named Prestigious Whiting Fellow, Edwin Smith, Jodi Skipper

News from UMSRG

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Southern Studies Professor Jodi Skipper Receives Prestigious Whiting Fellowship, Admin

Blog Posts

OXFORD, Miss. Fresh off winning this year's Mississippi Humanities Council's Scholar Award, University of Mississippi professor Jodi Skipper has received another accolade, this one a national honor. Skipper, assistant professor of anthropology and Southern studies, has been awarded a prestigious Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship from the Whiting Foundation, a Brooklyn, New York-based organization that has a long history of support for the humanities and literature.

Um Professor Receives Prestigious Whiting Fellowship, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

Jodi Skipper was among eight given the award for public engagement

Vicksburg Exhibit And Community Oral History Workshop Highlight Lebanese American Community And Culture, Admin

Blog Posts

The Center for the Study of Southern Culture and the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University are pleased to announce a collaborative effort to engage, learn from, and explore the history and memories of Mississippi's Lebanese American community.

Professor Jodi Skipper To Receive Mississippi Humanities Council Honor, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

Written by Edwin Smith, University Communications OXFORD, Miss. “ A University of Mississippi anthropology and Southern Studies professor is among five people being honored this month by the Mississippi Humanities Council. Jodi Skipper will receive the Humanities Scholar Award on Feb. 10 during the council's 2017 Public Humanities Awards program in Jackson.

Umsrg Member Jodi Skipper Receives Humanities Scholar Award, Edwin Smith, Jodi Skipper

News from UMSRG

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Um Professor To Receive Mississippi Humanities Council Honor, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

Jodi Skipper to be given Humanities Scholar Award Feb. 10 in Jackson

Secondary Diaspora: Cape Verdean Immigration To The Southeastern United States, Jessica Lopes, Brandon Lundy

Southern Anthropologist

Diasporas are fluid cultural constructs that foster identity, community, and connections over time, distance, and social space. This study explores a derivative secondary diaspora to illustrate how and why diasporas are interesting social phenomena established out of complex socio-cultural, economic, and political conditions. Outside of the large Cape Verdean diaspora of New England, relatively little is known about other U.S. Cape Verdean communities. How do they maintain ties to both the primary diaspora in New England and their Cape Verdean homeland? This research examines second and third wave moves that push and pull individuals and families beyond established diasporic communities. …

September 10, 2009, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Southerner And Irish? Regional And Ethnic Consciousness In Savannah, Georgia, William L. Smith

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

This paper attempts to answer the following question regarding regional and ethnic consciousness: Does southern identity vary by the level of ethnic identity one professes? Less than one-third of those who identified themselves as southerners, indicate that their identity as a southerner is much more important than their other identities including their ethnic identity. Some of these respondents practice a symbolic regionalism. Ethnic identity for most of the respondents is more important than their regional identity, although for them southerner and Irish are not mutually exclusive identities. The strength of ethnic identity is not significantly related to the importance of …

February 19, 1991, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.