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...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...be the first president of African descent, and in doing so eradicated racism forever." Nominating himself as Secretary of Postracial Affairs, Whitehead promised to reimagine a number of pre-postracial cultural...
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....
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...made a career of heralding the significance of the city's cultural and historic neighborhoods. In Bourbon Street, he turns his attention to the city's most iconic thoroughfare and its development...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
.... ." The words haunted me for months—reverberating in my head over and over again; nine little words embodying a multiplicity of possible interpretations. But one meaning in particular resonated...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...on to say that Stein's family left Allegheny when she was six months old, and that she has never seen it since—the city itself having ceased to exist, in fact,...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
Essay Canal Street, Separating the Old from the New City, from the WPA Guide to New Orleans. Reminders of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal are hard to miss in many American...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...spread up and down the city's waterfront with every advance in waterborne transportation. The city's explosive growth in the 1820s and 1830s followed the introduction of riverine steam power, while...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
... Places are, in short, "open and porous," "mental territories" constructed through a multiplicity of relations with "other" places.3Massey, Space, Place, and Gender, 5; Andrew R. L. Cayton and Susan E. Gray,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...such, don't see yourself as part of the great working-class of the world. The huge Daimler-Chrysler plant just down the road, looming in the scrawny countryside like an alien city,...