Tag: migration

August 11, 2014

Luther Adams: Claiming the South as Home: African Americans and Southern Identity

Claiming the South as Home was and still is a call to action and for reparations, but it is also an expression of black southern identity. Continue Reading Luther Adams: Claiming the South as Home: African Americans and Southern Identity

African American History/African American Studies/Author blog entry/Guest Bloggers/History/Southern Studies

October 17, 2011

Jorge Duany: Blurred Borders – An Excerpt

In this excerpt from Jorge Duany’s book Blurred Borders, the author relates his own migration story, from Cuba to Puerto Rico to the U.S. and back to Puerto Rico. Continue Reading Jorge Duany: Blurred Borders – An Excerpt

American History/Anthropology/Latin American/Caribbean Hist./Latino Studies

Scott Rohrer on Ancestral Migrations

We welcome a guest post today from S. Scott Rohrer, author of Wandering Souls: Protestant Migrations in America, 1630-1865. Popular literature and frontier studies stress that Americans moved west to farm or to seek a new beginning. In Wandering Souls, Rohrer argues that Protestant migrants in early America relocated in search of salvation, Christian community, reform, or all three. In… Continue Reading Scott Rohrer on Ancestral Migrations

American History/Genealogy/Guest Bloggers/Religion/UNC Press Authors