New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...of Education, ed. Gary Orfield and Susan Eaton (New York: The New Press, 1996). The percentage of Latinos and African Americans attending predominately minority institutions within each district is tabulated....
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...and New Mexico, 1800–1850 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 37. Wahlstrom's research makes clear that the US-Mexico War did not diminish economic and settlement patterns. Instead, ex-Confederate migration mapped...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011); Mark Hulsether, Religion, Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century United States (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). I explore the...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...Observations about Ash Management," (Knoxville, TN: TVA Office of the Inspector General), http://web.knoxnews.com/pdf/072809tva-inspectorgeneralreport.pdf; Shaila Dewan, "T.V.A. to Pay $43 Million on Projects in Spill Area," New York Times, September 14, 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/us/15ash.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all. The...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...4Gary Snyder, The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964–1979 (New York: New Directions, 1980), 173. Snyder continues with his metaphor, extending it to include not only natural systems but human...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942 (New York: Routledge, 2007). In 2013, the University of Virginia Press published The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration (Charlottesville:...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...some of the reasons why in an excellent piece in the New York Times, concentrating on the Rustbelt's economic and demographic decline, which has left it with fewer resources and...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Cambridge University Press, 1981); Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984); Christine Stansell, City of...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...threw up the first levees. No one had bothered before the floods, Powell dryly points out. “But this was how things went in New Orleans before New Orleans officially became...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...racial order of the Jim Crow South. Reed considers himself a southerner with "a small asterisk."1Reed, Adolph L. Jr., The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (New York: Verso Books, 2022),...