The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...Shirt: Terror After the Civil War (New York: Penguin Group, 2008); LeeAnna Keith, The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of White Power, Black Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction (New...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...write of the chemical transformation of these places, "Intentionally and not, we have designed a new nature" (191). In this extraordinary rendering, Misrach and Orff have given readers a new...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...laws resulting in racial discrimination. The Court's decision will likely unleash a new round of widespread discrimination in voting across the nation and continues its section-by-section destruction of the law...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...(42, 47). As the numbers and voices of newer residents surpassed those of long-time residents, the diversity policy long understood as "fair and beneficial to children of all backgrounds" became...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...happened at Mr. S's house. I grabbed my little brother's hand as my older sister grabbed mine and we headed out. When my mother got home that evening, I knew...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
The Black Belt
...dialect, trying to depict the dwellers of the Black Belt as I felt and saw them.” New York, New York. Portrait of Richard Wright, poet, May 1943. Photograph by Gordon...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...then the immediate family. It is understood that everyone who ever knew the deceased is expected to attend the funeral. The number in attendance depends on how well known the...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...Remarks on the Senate Floor Against Lifting of Cuba Travel Restrictions," Robert Mendendez, July 16, 2010, http://www.menendez.senate.gov/newsroom/press/menendez-remarks-on-the-senate-floor-against-lifting-of-cuba-travel-restrictions. Views like Menendez's reflect an inconsistency in US foreign policy when it comes...