Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...look to the future. Despite Nichols's creative license in blurring the timeline their choice is simple: they will build a life together. Still from Loving. © Focus Features, 2016. Loving...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...government will consider safe for human habitation" (243). The information should have been no surprise to Monsanto. In her testimony, Mims had recalled how, back in 1970, company representatives had...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...Three 6 Mafia). This group, led by DJ Paul and Juicy J and featuring male rappers Lord Infamous, Project Pat, and the female rapper Gangsta Boo, became known for compositions...
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...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...of disease and the raids of such "strangers," Beck argues, the region near the lower Catawba River offered "relative shelter" due to its thin population density (135). The fear and...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...and concludes with a group of Augusta leaders eyeing the fencing on a former trader’s land. The sketches skillfully illustrate the power of spatial imagination while introducing the concept Paulett...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...Banned from choice and safe recreation sites, black swimmers were relegated to dangerously polluted waters and dangerous currents in cities such as Charleston, New Orleans, and DC. Drownings became tragically...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...featured here, Dotter continues his attention to miners, having photographed some individuals, such as black lung pioneer Dr. Donald Rasmussen, for decades, and families, such as the Hipshires of Logan...
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...