"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...particularly "the effects of socioeconomic segregation can only be addressed through policies that attempt to redistribute students among schools or improve the quality of [low-SES] schools." "Does Resegregation Matter?: The...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...density of tradition. There is so much to dig into. Theater has not gone into depth, for example, in the serious cases of censorship caused by the cultural policies of...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...of Texas. This discourse glorified Texas's Anglo reputation for rugged individualism while advocating for New Deal policies, laying the foundation for the tenets of progressive liberalism later incorporated into the...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...their segregation policies. Taking the lead in the fight against Howard Johnson's were black students from North Carolina Central, who in their efforts to implement change endured verbal assaults, threats...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Zion Church for ninety-nine years, its name officially changing to "Mount Zion Cemetery." As racist policies and practices pushed many Black residents out of Georgetown over the next half-century, the...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...committees, has been largely overlooked by historians. The class action suit, Strain v. Philpott, that defeated the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service's discriminatory policies has been relegated to a footnote. Welchel...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...region? How can policies be changed and incentives offered so that more land is available for housing and alternative economic development? What are the actual employment/income outcomes of regional economic...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...talk and some action regarding returning land. Various organizations have held public meetings to elicit policies directly from citizens. Even Congress is thinking along these lines. In 2016, Representative Harold...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...a difference in their communities—despite personal difficulties and decreasing assistance from governing bodies—should inspire more activism. But the question remains, how can we continue this work when governmental policies have...
When the Border Crossed Me
...lives, the borders especially between the people we depend on in so many ways and the policies that vilify them. I now teach and write about all of this, traveling...