Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...venue to the "Race Course," and reduced the number of persons for sale: Joseph Bryan’s Advertisements for the “Sale of Slaves”, The Savannah Daily Morning News, February 27, 1859. Mortimer...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Daniels' racial politics to be more progressive than Buck did — and certainly more progressive than they appear to modern readers. Benjamin Brawley in the Journal of Negro Education credited...
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
...in book form as Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement (Montgomery: NewSouth Books, 2020). predominantly white Republicans will take states back to a future of...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...opportunity. Current is a term of physical movement. In more directly defining "crosscurrents," Lowe might have pulled together his circumCaribbean frame with other critical movements and interventions. As is, Calypso...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...larger changes in southeastern Native polities between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Beck's work complicates James Merrell’s monumental 1989 text on Catawba history, The Indians' New World.1James H. Merrell, The...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...of Georgia, extending from the mouth of the River Savannah to the town of Augusta, 1780. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, 73694481. When addressing more fluid locations, Paulett's...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...was explicitly established as a destination that served to shield its residents from "the temptations of the city" (53). More elite African Americans established communities such as Highland Beach, just...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...lights on, businesses like Wal-Mart are becoming the major employers. When mines close and the number of miners decreases, company housing may deteriorate, be abandoned, or replaced by mobile homes....
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...picture would have shown, among other things, a newer department store and a movie theater, more recognizable signs of modernity."33Charles Alan Watkins, "Merchandising the Mountaineer: Photography, the Great Depression, and...