End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...government also released relief funds to individual state governments, although often these funds did not reach the people who needed them.1Rebecca Riess and Devon M. Sayers, "Alabama Governor Signs Bill...
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....
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...trace their origins to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The need for black people to establish such institutions was expressed by Victoria Earle Matthews in 1895. She said:...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...attend school for seven months but he could only go to school for five. "Aaron," his mother finally responded, "you my boy—and you don't need but five. The rest of...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Review When Hernando de Soto's army of six hundred soldiers reached the middle Savannah River in 1540, arriving in what is today South Carolina and Georgia, they likely thought they...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...sided with the Confederacy. There were a disproportionate number of Creek leaders who had close ties to the Deep South: economic relationships, cultural influences, and, to some degree, plantation systems....
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
Review "I don't need a map to tell me where I am today." —Mike Cooley The Drive-By Truckers have always done their best and most arresting work about place. They...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...will determine how much land is needed to sustain a given number of residents. SECTION 8. Allied Programs. SUB-SECTION A. Income tax incentives will encourage teachers and medical doctors to...
Good-Bye to All That?
...going to take it anymore. When we closed up the polls at 8:30 p.m. and printed out the results, I didn't need a statewide exit poll to know what had...