New Frontiers in American Evangelical Worship

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-172
Author(s):  
Melanie C. Ross
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
General Public ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

This article puts Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier thesis”—an interpretation of American history that held sway among historians and the general public from the late 1890s to the 1930s—in conversation with James F. White’s depiction of an American liturgical “frontier tradition”—an interpretation of evangelical worship that became popular in the 1990s and continues to hold sway in the twenty-first century. It analyzes both through the lens of contemporary critiques and proposes new lines of inquiry that will contribute to a more robust understanding of American evangelical worship.

James Baldwin

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
American History ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
First Century ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Twenty First Century

The book is devoted to the works of James Baldwin, one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. The authors examine his most important contributions – including novels, essays, short stories, poetry, and media appearances – in the wider context of American history. They demonstrate the lasting importance of his oeuvre, which was central to the Civil Rights Movement and continues to be relevant at the dawn of the twenty-first century and the Black Lives Matter era.

Dust and Shadows … A Progress Report

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Russell
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
First Century ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Twenty First Century

This article considers postwar British documentary films in light of recent curatorial initiatives and wider historiographical issues. The article places the BFI's 2010 Shadows of Progress project in the context of a wider and substantial shift of perception of non-fiction film in the early twenty-first century, which has caused the canon of British documentaries to increase in size, scope and profile. The article argues that archivists, media producers and the general public have played at least as large a role in these developments as scholars of the documentary film. The article summarises some of the key features of postwar British documentary as it is now understood and mentions other aspects of postwar, and other, British factual film meriting future research.

scholarly journals Immigration & Language Diversity in the United States

Daedalus ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 142 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubén G. Rumbaut ◽  
Douglas S. Massey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American History ◽  
English Language ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Language Diversity ◽  
Linguistic Patterns ◽  
Twenty First Century

While the United States historically has been a polyglot nation characterized by great linguistic diversity, it has also been a zone of language extinction in which immigrant tongues fade and are replaced by monolingual English within a few generations. In 1910, 10 million people reported a mother tongue other than English, notably German, Italian, Yiddish, and Polish. The subsequent end of mass immigration from Europe led to a waning of language diversity and the most linguistically homogenous era in American history. But the revival of immigration after 1970 propelled the United States back toward its historical norm. By 2010, 60 million people (a fifth of the population) spoke a non-English language, especially Spanish. In this essay, we assess the effect of new waves of immigration on language diversity in the United States, map its evolution demographically and geographically, and consider what linguistic patterns are likely to persist and prevail in the twenty-first century.

Madam C. J. Walker and African American Philanthropy in the Twenty-First Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 201-208
Author(s):  
Tyrone McKinley Freeman
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Church ◽  
American History ◽  
First Century ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Giving Circles ◽  
Family Foundations ◽  
Volunteer Time

The epilogue examines the presence of Walker’s style of giving among African American donors of the twenty-first century, from Oprah Winfrey to the millions of black churchwomen, clubwomen, and giving circle members today. It presents Winfrey as an exemplar of Madam Walker’s gospel of giving by exploring the evolution of her philanthropy across her career. It reviews the fundraising campaign of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, which reflected Walker’s gospel of giving by creating multiple points of entry for donors of various abilities to give. A broad base of donors of all races, but especially African Americans, responded to the campaign by donating money, artifacts, and volunteer time at extraordinary rates. The chapter presents a brief overview of the current landscape of African American philanthropy as a reflection of Walker’s gospel of giving that includes the black church, communal forms of giving, giving circles, family foundations, black-led organizations and social movements, and professional affinity networks in philanthropy.

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