Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...the City of Atlanta. Geography Non-Hispanic Black Population % Non-Hispanic Black Change in Non-Hispanic Black Residents (2000-2010) % of MSA's Black Population Growth 2000 2010 2000 2010 Clayton County 120,816...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...1998 PBS documentary, online at www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia. Pierce Butler had the impending sale advertised continuously in The Savannah Republican, The Savannah Daily Morning News, and in contemporary newspapers throughout the southeastern...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...oblige, enfolding Indian children into their domestic spaces and the white and black worlds that shaped them. Map of the Indian tribes of North America about 1600 AD, Washington DC,...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Black families. All voucher-supported private schools were segregated by race—either all-white or all-Black. After the voucher law was challenged in federal court, four all-Black private schools joined the state government...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...spaces that privileged black audiences and displayed the creative energies and talents of black youth. Years before Soul Train (1971–2006) brought black dance television to national audiences, The Mitch Thomas...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...Gaffney, "As Black Lung Strikes Younger Coal Miners, Kentucky Restricts Medical Benefits," NRDC, September 24, 2018, accessed September 29, 2018, https://www.nrdc.org/stories/black-lung-strikes-younger-coal-miners-kentucky-restricts-medical-benefits. Apart from such individual physicians' political and medical predispositions, however,...
Religion and the US South
...P.S. Duval. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Collection, www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3g04543/. During the era of Reconstruction many Blacks joined northern-based religious groups like the African Methodist Episcopal (AME)...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...the opossum as a rightful inheritance while depicting Black consumption as deviant. They drew on longstanding racist tropes that cast Blacks as possessing an excessive animality and fondness for opossums,...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...did, white and black, may have wished not to be there themselves. Even the black custodian would have reasons for regret. Returning to the building in late afternoon to take...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...be Found: After Humanism," 1984 As a result of rallies we got courses in "black literature" and "black history" and a special black adviser for black students and a black...