Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...labor-intensive to capital-intensive operations and, spurred by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) subsidies, expensive machines and chemicals dominated remaining farms. Black farmers were often unable to obtain credit, information,...
The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...in varied downtown and uptown neighborhoods all testify to the primacy of non-institutional forces at work in the recovery. On All Saints Day 2005, a jazz funeral was held for...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...the United States, due process and equal protection of the laws, House apportionment based on "the whole number of persons," and citizens' right to vote without regard to "race, color,...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...For example, researchers calculate the number of Latinos attending schools with more than 50% minority enrollments in district X divided by the total number of Latinos in school district X....
A City Divided
...class. Blacks and whites, business owners and laborers lived in close proximity in the late 1800s, often on the same block. If the home-owning whites who occupied the distinguished homes...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...Bar. We were at the end of the second-line for Tuba Fats' huge jazz funeral just over a week ago Sunday. Band members were leaving as conversation and memories of...
Congregation
...North Gulfport water tower. Every day it grows whiter until it is the color of clouds, and the clouds in the heavy sky seem whiter still. To paint the tower...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
Review Kelly Yandell, Foodways Texas oyster tasting at Gaido's Restaurant, Galveston, Texas, 2011. On a late February Saturday night in Galveston, Texas, I stood shoulder to shoulder with a hundred...