Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...of the earliest formations of a black popular music culture."6Kyra D. Gaunt, The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop. (New York: New York University Press,...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...For example, researchers calculate the number of Latinos attending schools with more than 50% minority enrollments in district X divided by the total number of Latinos in school district X....
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...first noncommercial, religious resort for blacks under the auspices of the Gulfside-Chautauqua Association in Waveland, Mississippi. If ragtime, alcohol, gambling, and the occasional brawl enlivened outings elsewhere, the Gulfside Assembly...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...in eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia as they go about daily lives and leisure pursuits. He visits a local swimming pool, a baseball field, family gardens, a supermarket, and...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...17 (Top): Paint Lick, Garrard County, Kentucky, October 15, 2014. Photograph by Meg Wilson. http://lookingatappalachia.org/kentucky#/id/i9137354. Figure 18 (Bottom): Skate World, Vilas, Watauga County, North Carolina, March 19, 2015. Photograph by...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...and their later transformation into apartment complexes, grocery stores, museums, and art galleries. West Columbia has become home to Columbia's growing workforce, University of South Carolina students, and young professionals...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...the winter months, and invest their gains in labor-saving machinery, such as tractors. Between 1936 and 1941, the Bootheel's tenancy rate—which measured the number of those who did not own...
Besieged Terrain
...narrow gauge tracks laid up the creeks and a Shay locomotive, the company could cut all of the woodlands and transport the logs to mills. The skidding of the logs...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...powerful numbers like "South Carolina (Barnwell)," a blistering critique of the construction of the Savannah River nuclear plant in 1975, Scott-Heron directed his listeners' attention to new political battlefields and...