Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...Map Division, 2009582407. John Mitchell, A map of the British and French dominions in North America, with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements, 1755. Library of Congress...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...Beyond Jim Crow (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007); Beryl Satter, Family Matters: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009). On the...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...nation. The South already has the nation's largest population of adults lacking a high school or college education. Map of Low-Income Students in Public Schools by State Public school systems...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...aims to prevent misconceptions he fears are taking root about the uniform nature of the segregated South and forestall mistaken present-day lessons that ignore the role of class in the...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...the April 26, 2010 issue of Newsweek. Scan by Flickr user MyEyeSees. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bottom, portrait of former Texas Governor Ann Richards at the Texas capitol...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...2006); State of South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs, "South Carolina Hispanic/Latino Report" (Columbia: South Carolina Commission on Minority Affairs, 2006), http://www.state.sc.us/cma/data/FINDINGS%20REPORT2006.pdf (accessed February 21, 2011); Heather A. Smith and...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Box FC 2.3, Newspaper Clippings Collection, 1871-2001, Special Collection and Archive, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau (hereafter SEMO). For the STFU membership in Missouri, see Roll, Spirit of Rebellion,...
Besieged Terrain
...This brought in thirty seven million dollars to a scholarship fund for poor students from eastern Kentucky. Mismanaged, the fund went broke. Using the cover of restoring the scholarship money,...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...of Illinois Press, 2015), 123. Mountaintop coal mine, Charleston, West Virginia, October 16, 2008. Photograph by Flickr user ddimick. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Cropped from original. There is...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...His single mother pinched pennies by scribbling reviews for the local paper. Even his grandmother—an early suffragist in New Orleans known for her outspoken antislavery opinions—belied the plantation myth. But...