Lee's Lieutenants: The American South and the World

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-461
Author(s):  
Peter A. Coclanis
Keyword(s):  
American South ◽  
The World ◽  
The American South

Understanding Sport as a Religious Phenomenon

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Bain-Selbo ◽  
D. Gregory Sapp
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
National Identity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
American South ◽  
The World ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The American South ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Classroom Use

Readers are introduced to a range of theoretical and methodological approaches used to understand religion – including sociology, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology – and how they can be used to understand sport as a religious phenomenon. Topics include the formation of powerful communities among fans and the religious experience of the fan, myth, symbols and rituals and the sacrality of sport, and sport and secularization. Case studies are taken from around the world and include the Olympics (ancient and modern), football in the UK, the All Blacks and New Zealand national identity, college football in the American South, and gymnastics. [new paragraph] Ideal for classroom use, Understanding Sport as a Religious Phenomenon illuminates the nature of religion through sports phenomena and is a much-needed contribution to the field of religion and popular culture.

scholarly journals The multiple mobilities of civil rights in Jeanine Tesori’s Violet and Caroline, or Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-253
Author(s):  
Allan Kilner-Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
American History ◽  
American South ◽  
Tony Kushner ◽  
Civil Rights Act ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
The World ◽  
The American South

This article centres on Jeanine Tesori’s Violet (book and lyrics by Brian Crawley) and Caroline, or Change (book and lyrics by Tony Kushner), both of which are set in the American south during a crucial period in American history running between the assassination of John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963 and the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Both works musically capture the imaginative traditions of the American south through gospel, country, Motown, and blues in order to detail the complex negotiations of the titular female protagonists through challenges of isolation, entrapment and liberation in the months following Kennedy's assassination. This article argues that the promise and affordance of mobility within these musicals are rooted in an uncanny spiritual fervour expressed by Violet and Caroline, both of whom have defined a distinctive, and, as will be recognized by each musical’s conclusion, mistaken theology of personal devotion and faith that runs precisely counter to the liberating potentials in the world around them.

“I Ain’t no Man!”

2020 ◽  
pp. 68-88
Author(s):  
Veronica T. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Black People ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
American South ◽  
Black Masculinity ◽  
Black History ◽  
The World ◽  
Women Of African Descent ◽  
The American South

As an African American man in Augusta, a town deeply rooted in the racist ideologies and practices of the segregated South, Frank Yerby certainly had had enough experiences with Jim Crow living, discrimination, and racial terrorism to fuel his writing for a lifetime. Despite becoming best-known, perhaps, for his prolific authorship of novels that focused primarily on white lives and characters, Yerby commented in an interview with Maryemma Graham, “In every novel I have written about the American South, I have subtly infused a very strong defense of Black history and Black people” (70). Rhetorical defenses in novels that are largely not about Black lives are certainly worth noting; however, in this chapter I argue that the exploration of the world as it impacted Black people was a more consistent interest for Yerby than many recognized. He wrote a number of short stories that specifically focused on the impacts of racism and subjugation on the Black psyche and identity, the intimate relationships between men and women of African descent, and the understandings and performances of Black masculinity.

When Johnny Went Marching Home

2021 ◽  
pp. 167-186
Author(s):  
Jim Powell
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
American South ◽  
Free Market ◽  
World Market ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Catastrophic Failure ◽  
Futures Trading ◽  
The World ◽  
The American South

This chapter considers the aftermath of the war, in Liverpool and in the American South during Reconstruction. In Liverpool, a combination of speculation, financial crises, the transatlantic telegraph and futures trading created a cauldron of disruption. The immediate question was whether American cotton could be produced in the pre-war quantity at the pre-war price. The reality was that, after the evils of slavery and the sacrifices of the war, little got better afterwards for anyone who produced cotton in America. The American South proved unable to organise itself collectively, to diversify its industry, or to escape the stifling control of the credit merchants, and the result was endemic poverty. There was no demonstrable failure of free labour, but there was a catastrophic failure of the free market. The conclusion of the book is that the civil war years were a time of unmitigated catastrophe for most of Britain’s cotton trade, and ultimately for America’s cotton producers. 1861 marked the end of the largely Anglo-centric era in which British cotton goods, using a raw material produced by American slaves, dominated the world market.

Sat Tal 1958

Facing West ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 65-96
Author(s):  
David R. Swartz
Keyword(s):  
American South ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Alma Mater ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Christian Missions ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The American South

In the 1950s and 1960s, significant numbers of missionaries and converts began to object to evangelical Cold War triumphalism. Describing racial segregation in the American South, they pointed out the limits of American democracy. One of these critics, E. Stanley Jones, was a long-time missionary to India, member of the evangelical wing of the Methodist Church, and trustee of Asbury College in Kentucky. During revival meetings at his alma mater—and in speeches around the world—he preached against segregation. With critiques birthed from his involvement in the Sat Tal Ashram in the foothills of the Himalayas, his interactions with the Indian caste system, and his friendship with Mahatma Gandhi, he pointed out how racism sabotaged Christian missions and the reputation of American democracy abroad.

Queerspace: Sexualized spaces revisited

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diepiriye Sungumote Kuku Kuku-Siemons
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narrative ◽  
American South ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Other ◽  
First Person ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
The World ◽  
The American South

Reflecting on lessons learned from the endemic and tacit homophobia throughout his childhood in the American south, Diepiriye's personal narrative begins with realizing his first ally in a most unlikely corner. His best friend became the first in their class to grow breasts and the world seemed to collapse in on her much the same way the world abandoned him because of his effeminacy. Told in first person, this is the first chapter in a book that regards gender, race and class in the American south with critical the hindsight of a native who has now traversed the world, and currently resides on the other side.

Cotton Competition and the Post-Bellum Recovery of the American South

1974 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 610-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Wright
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
American South ◽  
The South ◽  
Economic Expansion ◽  
World Markets ◽  
The World ◽  
The American South

As evidence has accumulated on the prosperity of the American South under slavery prior to the Civil War, attention has turned to a search for explanations for the apparent stagnation of the southern economy after the Civil War. One class of explanations involves the argument that the South experienced special difficulties in recovering her place in the international cotton market during the late 1860's and 1870's. In one version of this hypothesis, the presence of “new” sources of supply, stimulated by the cotton famine of 1861–65, acted to displace American cotton in world markets during this period. A second version, recently proposed by Mark Aldrich, argues that appreciation of the dollar resulting from capital imports and northern economic expansion forced American cotton to compete with the rest of the world on unfavorable terms prior to the resumption of specie payments in 1879.

Guantánamo, Eatonville, Accompong: Barbecue and the Diaspora in the Writings of Zora Neale Hurston

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREW WARNES
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
American South ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Ntozake Shange ◽  
The Color Purple ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The American South ◽  
Color Purple

African American writers often express great affection for barbecue, a food many describe as “scrumptious” – to use a term that recurs throughout Bobby Seale's cookbook, Barbeque'n with Bobby (1988) – and invest with a particular capacity to lend shape and coherence to the idea of the African Diaspora. In the writings of Ntozake Shange, Albert Murray, Alice Walker, and others, barbecue seems able to reunite black communities, to gather together people dispersed across the USA or even the world. This literary use of barbecue is epitomized by Alice Walker's The Color Purple (1982), the concluding pages of which make the food central to a rejuvenating Diasporic optimism that stands in sharp contrast to the novel's desolate opening description of Celie's sexual abuse. Having grown up in West Africa, Adam, offspring of Celie's rape, finally meets his mother at a barbecue held in the American South. The food provides a conversation opener, a point of contact that the estranged family badly need:Everybody make a lot of miration over Tashi. People look at her and Adam's scars like that's they business. Say they never suspect African ladies could look so good. They make a fine couple. Speak a little funny, but us gitting use to it.

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