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
...River. These ventures offered many of the district's black residents an opportunity to don their finest clothes, picnic, and dance. Farther south, Methodist bishop Robert E. Jones established the nation's...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...interdisciplinary approach to gain new insights into this shifting social and political landscape. He uses the formation of the Catawba Nation from many smaller groups, known as coalescence, to understand...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...book covers most of the 1700s, beginning with the settlement of the Georgia colony and concluding with the aftermath of the American Revolution. The empire of the book's title is...
The Black Belt
...the 1890s challenge of the Populists and inscribed their power in a straitjacket of a state constitution that disfranchised the African American population along with many poor whites. This 1901...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...care, while many working-age coalminers have been laid off, leaving them with few, if any, healthcare options. UMWA surface mine welder repairs dragline bucket. Boone County, WV, 2005. Working at...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...so many times by so many different hands that it is futile to look for a 'correct' definition of the region."7David E. Whisnant, Modernizing the Mountaineer: People, Power and Planning...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...are not just local ones. Like many cities, West Columbia is experiencing a transnational migratory stream that is affecting the local society in many ways. As an extension agent, herself...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...In response, many planters stepped up their plans to employ wage laborers who had no claim on any of the crop and thus no claim to any of the federal...