"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...She is missing her left front tooth and when she laughs, she leans backward and then forward again, as if in a rocking chair. She grew up in Mableton in...
Editors
...Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy, which was long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/Galbraith Award in non-fiction. Prof. Anderson’s research centers upon public policy, how racial inequality and racism...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...entrenchment of health disparities; the ways that race and gender shape and are shaped by health policy; and the inseparable connection between health justice and health advocacy. Public health scholarship...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...and synthetic chemicals such as DDT and parathion. USDA policy encouraged farmers to invest in machines and chemicals and bent policy to aid wealthy farmers. The crop cycle increasingly required...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...a journey up the filthy Fleet: the open sewer runs foul with "grease, and hair of meazled [leprous] dogs; / The heads, houghs [hocks], entrailes, and hides of hogs."3Jenny Price,...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...would do "better to be poor at home" than die abroad.22Ibid., 792. A representation of the cholera epidemic depicting the spread of the disease in the form of poisonous air,...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...race, religion, law, science, and history and with myriad other prejudices, doctrines, sentiments, and myths. Georgetown College, Washington, D.C., ca. 1800. Engraving by Casimir Bohn. Courtesy of the Library of...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...Canaan's fair and happy land Where my possessions lie. O the transporting, rapt'rous scene That rises to my sight! Sweet fields arrayed in living green, And rivers of delight. Filled...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
Review Any historical account requires a framing device—temporal, thematic, or geographical—establishing the scope of enquiry. A Caribbean history typically invokes fairly settled geographical parameters that delimit the area to insular...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...of Central Appalachia. The new standards, enacted to protect the environment by reducing toxic air emissions, acid rain, and urban air pollution, had the unexpected, ironic effect of decimating thousands...