New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...districts. Patterns of Segregation Social scientists use multiple measures of segregation trends in education. In the Atlanta Metro region measures of racial isolation reveal changes in district-level racial composition between...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...US economy, these patterns persist. Fifty-two percent of the public school students in the eleven-state South were eligible for free or reduced school meals in 2021, due in large part...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...June 11, 2015. Photograph by Adam Lau. Courtesy of Knoxville News Sentinel. Bottom, Oak Ridge city employees Debbie Palmer, left, and Mike Brooks prepare the outdoor pavilion, Oak Ridge, Tennessee,...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...the gradual shifting of intellectual tectonic plates. Clearly a necessary but difficult virtue in Appalachian Studies is patience. But the tempo of patient, careful scholarship can be frustrating for others...
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
Presentation Responses About the Speakers Kirk Savage is a professor of art history and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively on public monuments within the theoretical context...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His dissertation is an ethnohistory of the eighteenth-century Pawnees, Otoes, and Kansas, focusing particularly on their strategies to protect...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...groups, settings, and activities highlights the everyday and personal elements of a global economy. Paulett's spatial analysis is particularly illuminating when he examines a location, such as the trade town...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...temporarily and inadequately—corners of respite from the indignities of Jim Crow. Pavilion scene, Carr's Beach, Maryland, July, 1956. Used with permission from WANN Radio Station Records, Archives Center, National Museum...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...sample daily life in the coalfields, from family reunions and baseball parks to changing patterns of consumption and town structures. Through his photographs of the everyday, Dotter challenges stereotypes of...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...people have drawn on a limited number of tropes. Whether Bayard Wootten's photographic illustrations for Cabins in the Laurel,1Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel (Chapel Hill: University of North...