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....
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...would later become the Confederacy" (4). In addition to traditional colonial sources, Dubcovsky delves into material culture, oral traditions, linguistics, and iconography to reveal how, from the pre-Columbian era to...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...at the crossroads of the railroad and U.S. 11, just off the highway, a place where the growing number of mexicano workers can send envios of money home. I grew...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Atlanta's history, politics, and the arts converge ... [They are] responsible for some of the most prominent aural and visual aesthetics that have come to define the South."1 Fahamu Pecou, phone...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Daniels added, echoing the sentiments of a number of contemporary writers who had said the same of the United States as a whole. "And, since the traveler is generally the...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...an open-ended structure, an open call for additional contexts, commentaries, and contributions, the project can never be "finished"—even after the editorial board stops adding images. It is in those gaps...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...us mired in the film's litany of Anthropocene images. Allan Stoekl argues that every twenty-first century addiction flows from our addiction to oil.7Allan Stoekl, Bataille's Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...and put this region's history, politics, culture, and contemporary situation in dialogue with that from around the country. In addition, I have recently been working on an edited book on...