North Carolina: A State of Shock
...bad as it looks, they want to know? My answer is always the same: It's worse—a lot worse—than you think it is. North Carolina's reputation as a "progressive" state has...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...in Washington, DC, Mildred and Richard decide, in violation of state law, to move back to Virginia with their three young children. They find a farmhouse. It has no telephone...
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....
Old Elementary
...hissing radiators, oil-polished wood floors, crayonwax, pencil shavings, the chronic dust of lead, chalk, faint fear—and the long hallways not hard for me to imagine empty, dimly lit, where I...
Anniversary
...and let this memory be a kind of no, polished now with all its bright and all its dark, and maybe the rain will fall like the water of this...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...unknown immigrant in the Shenandoah Valley in 1847. Drawing upon a deep trove of artifacts from the Virginia Board of Immigration (founded after the Civil War and run by Polish...
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...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
Review Building on a rich literature that explores the spatial dimensions of US race relations and capital formation, Andrew Kahrl's The Land Was Ours traces the histories of African American...