Social Justice Environmentalism
...immigration, and resource policy.5Robert Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement, rev. ed. (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2005), 24; Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne, Paths to...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Justice Research Project," Inter-American Policy Studies Occasional Papers, no. 4 (Austin, TX: Inter-American Policy Studies Program, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs: Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...250,000 Guatemalans and Salvadorans to reapply for asylum and many were able to legalize their status.9Susan Gzesh, “Central Americans and Asylum Policy during the Reagan Era,” Migration Policy Institute, Migration...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...RG 92, Entry 352, Box 3, NA. The area Cox selected for the post is now East Ellijay. After choosing the site and name, Cox returned to New Echota. Fort...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Tax Increases" (report for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, August 12, 2014), http://www.texaspolicy.com/center/local-governance/blog/austin-homeowners-see-continued-property-tax-increases. Austin is also one of the fastest growing US cities, with 3 percent population growth and a...
Religion and the US South
...the early nineteenth century was the attempt to convert Native Americans. As settlers moved into the Old Southwest, pressures mounted for removal of Indians from their native lands. Long before...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...12,960 (4.4%) 297, 052 Orange County 308, 244 (26.9%) 149,457 (13%) 1,145,956 Osceola County 122,146 (45.5%) 72,986 (27.2%) 268,685 Buenaventura Lakes 18,160 (69%) 11,618 (44.5%) 26,079 In comparison to past...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...at the Oaks Theater."48"Notes on Norma Rae viewings and controversy at the Oaks Cinema," dated April 30–May 18, 1979, TWUA records, WHS, Box 25, Folder "Norma Rae (cancellation)," 396. Norma...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...aunt Ann Tinney Lucas (1814–c.1887) and her husband Carter Lucas (c. 1800–c. 1874) had at least six children: John T. Lucas (born 1833); Alice Virginia, (1835–1924); Josephine Lucas (1836–1924); William Lucas (born...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...domestic policy" (ix). To be sure, public housing is not the only publicly funded institution to be impacted by the trend toward privatization. The growth of privately managed charter schools,...