Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States (1995), examines the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...RIGHT QUADRANT — Personal hazards. BOTTOM QUADRANT — Number of live and dead victims still inside the structure. ["0" = no victims] National Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Response System,...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...Service and New Deal agencies such as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and Works Progress Administration (WPA). Typically, federal agencies acquired the land (through purchase or donation) and federal workers...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...United Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) approved their applications and set appointments for their citizenship test – which included a short written section and an oral examination on US history...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...The United States as we know it would not exist without the consequences and legacies of Robin Beck's reframing of this foundational narrative. About the Author Garrett Wright is a...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...either side of the Mason-Dixon line, the contemporary policing of racialized spaces—all can be understood not only as battle lines in freedom struggles but also as unacknowledged elements of urban...
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....
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...ship's deck, did not enter service until 1998. Although the net value of shipping continued to increase during this period due to trade in grain and petroleum, the number of...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...racial differences continue to plague modern mental health services where Black and minority patients are over-diagnosed with psychotic disorders, underdiagnosed with depressive disorders, and continue to be underrepresented in service...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
Blog post In a case decided on the grounds of religious freedom, the US Supreme Court took another big step on June 30 in supporting religious discrimination in publicly financed...