Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...Florida, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina, as well as in New Mexico, California, and a few other states outside the South, an increase in the number of Latino children appears...
"Aint that Something?"
...attests, "The retardation around here staggers the mind" (129), and she describes a classmate's eyes as "dull as social studies, and she had no idea men had been to the...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...eschewing the language of "legal lynching." Even as the number of documented cases declined during the 1930s, the NAACP reported in 1940 that lynching had not disappeared but gone "underground,"...
Cajun South Louisiana
...Map Collection, University of Texas. While many people associate the southwest Louisiana home of the Cajuns with swamplands, its environment also consists of marshes, prairies, and wooded river areas. The...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...in greater detail would make for an interesting analysis of this time period. Here, however, I concentrate primarily on Sibley's thick descriptions of the area around Sweet Apple and the...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...know it is constructed properly. I know that and then there is always new techniques and try to learn around everybody I go around.15Interview was broadcast November 2, 2005, on...
Writing Appalachia
...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...Texas required the heavy hand of intervention and annexation. From its beginnings, the movement for Texas independence depended upon and was lead by southerners who expanded slavery and the cotton...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...similar voter identification bill in Texas. Both North Carolina and Texas passed voter identification laws following the Supreme Court's ruling to overturn key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act....
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...our trip, we came across many models of reconciliation. Faith-based Mission Mississippi brings people together for social activities that build trust around shared religious values. Northern Ireland has created political...