Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...a neighborhood planning firm, and teaches in the Department of Political Science and the South Side Initiative at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Pooley received a PhD from the University...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...He is the author of Between North and South: Delaware, Desegregation, and the Myth of American Sectionalism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). Gadsden is currently at work on a...
The Chesapeake Bay
...watershed encompasses parts of six states (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia). The Bay was formed only 10,000 years ago. Its Algonquian name, which means "Great Shellfish...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, August 1, 2014. Photograph by Victoria Ruan. http://lookingatappalachia.org/pennsylvania#/id/i9219143. Figure 12: Logan, Hocking County, Ohio, November 23, 2015. Photograph by Gary Adcock. http://lookingatappalachia.org/ohio#/id/i10973931. Butler suggests how frames operate...
The Bulletin—January 29, 2013
...majority-minority district in order to "enhance Virginia's compliance with the Voting Rights Act." State-level redistricting plans enacted in Alabama, Texas, and Florida since the 2010 US Census are also being...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Dakotas and from the culturally different 'South West' in Texas and Indian Territory." Though popular conceptions of the geography of the "Midwest" did shift, Kansas always remained at "the core...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...states as the US South: Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland. Today the South is the only section...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...General Eric Holder and the Obama administration set in process actions that would reinstate the voting law preclearance in Texas, bringing a case to a federal court in Texas that...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
Video About the Speaker Born in 1933 to Irish immigrant parents, Constance Curry grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. She graduated from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, where she...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...gallons of heavy crude oil from Canadian tar sands as a result of the spill. The aging pipeline runs from Illinois to Texas and its rupture forced the evacuation of...