Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...scholarly work and refine our antiracist policies. We understand that social justice and change only come from sustained efforts, and we welcome your help and suggestions in keeping us accountable....
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...by looking at the agency's policies toward white patients, the extent of the government's racialized response to VD becomes clearer. About the Author Elliott Bowen is a professor of history at...
"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...
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...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...during the presidency of Donald Trump, who consistently endorsed racist policies and spewed racist rhetoric.2Karen Grigsby Bates, "Is Trump Really That Racist?" NPR, October 21, 2020, https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/925385389/is-trump-really-that-racist. While the public...
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...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...they had learned. In Ramu, faith-based organizations overcame the silos between their work, meeting to formulate policies for combating the spread of vaccine misinformation. Volunteers working with faith-based groups increased...