A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...(11). Unable to impose Jim Crow policies on Mexican Americans legally, a less formal "Juan Crow" pattern of prejudice emerged (33). In 1893 and 1905, Texas passed a series of...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...a week—eighty dollars per day if you are picking strawberries. It's so much more complex than a person trying to get ahead. It is about international trade agreements and policies...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...to demonstrate that their support of Jim Crow was consistent with American values. This necessitated their avoidance of any association with fascism. Public awareness that Nazi racial policies had resulted...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...2003, ten students attended public schools. The new majority of southern students demands new public policies. The success or failure of low-income students has enormous repercussions for all, as well...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...is of course implied here.) Walker's critique of Faulkner's fiction using his public pronouncements in advocating gradualism in relation to change in racist policies as a lens for critique is...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...States. He also gives particular attention to the role of Spanish colonial policies on manumission, self-purchase, and militia service in creating New Orleans’s unique caste of free people of color....
The US South and the 2008 Election
...2006 book, Whistling Past Dixie, urged Democrats to give up their "sentimental" and "nostalgic" ties with the South and focus on liberal policies that could secure majorities in the most...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...Public health and racial segregation Labor and public health, corporate medical policies, work-related health issues Rural poverty and well-being Mental health Food deserts and place-based food insecurity Health-focused writing: fiction,...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...chronic vulnerability to terror, discriminatory private policies, and predatory financial practices, and one that needs to be understood as a central problem to studies of capital formation and race relations...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...as "the accidental Eden"—arguing that policies that protected Cuba's coastal landscapes from high-rise beach development were hardly accidental, but planned, and the designation as Eden, as is frequently deployed in...