"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...emergency operations is whether all the work involved with preparing, clearing, and presenting extensive PowerPoint slide decks in daily COVID-19 briefings was worthwhile. What were the benefits and at what...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...water skiing. The folly, this not-just-semantic amnesia, has been expensive. Newspapers chronicle a twenty or thirty year cycle of restoration and waste. Eutrophication, fish kill, dredge Crisis, quick fix, repeat....
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War, Fifteenth Anniversary Edition (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016), 120. Hale sent his letter to Governor Beriah...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...SECTION 1. The United States shall create a series of commons communities, each designed to include a specified number of households within a larger landscape that will be managed by...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...profit per vehicle. But workers at U.S. Daimler Chrysler plants average 28 hours per vehicle—and the company is making only $226 per vehicle. So Wall Street says, "Lower costs, improve...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...on the corner, waiting, would have been sent home by their white employers, as not clean enough to clean, and one-fourth of the teachers in the school across the street...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Dubcovsky, "because the answer is clear: power." The entire book offers an answer to why. Although the connection between information and power might seem relatively facile, Informed Power reveals it...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...magnitude and in its biodiversity. It is about a man who turned his tenacious mind and undistracted gaze upon that body of water and decided that he would clean it...
Besieged Terrain
...Robinson Forest has proposed clear cutting eighty five percent of the Forest's watersheds on a seventy-year rotation. This would destroy the watersheds. Despite protests, in 2007 it clear cut eight...