"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...1996), 398. Similarly, in Atlanta, lower-income white parents protested that because they could not move away or choose private education like the "silk stocking crowd," they would be disproportionately affected...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...jurisdictions see "Section 5 Covered Jurisdictions," United States Department of Justice, accessed May 21, 2013, http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_5/covered.php. Congress enacted Section 5 because state and local officials habitually obstructed the voting rights...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...Mouth of the Mississippi, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 9, 2010. Photograph by Flickr user Adventures of KM&G-Morris. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. European Bodies, Climate, and the Geography of...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...Education Betsy DeVos’s plan to spend billions of federal dollars on private school vouchers. Sign protesting Betsy DeVos at a rally, October 13, 2017. Photograph by Flickr user Backbone Campaign....
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...modernity, those self-interested promoters of the benefits of wage labor, efficiency, discipline, and "productive" (i.e., profitable for them and their kind) use of the land. Declaring makeshift agricultural practices a...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...come to the rescue of white congregations in ways that can excuse and blur the history. Such chroniclers have argued that southern white congregations were largely moderate and either removed...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...because the private sector could not meet the needs of the lowest income tenants—either in quantity or affordability of rental units. This has not changed. Even as HUD approved the...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...Christopher J. Manganiello. Copyright © 2015 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.unc.edu. Manganiello organizes his analysis into three periods: New South (1890–1930),...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...October 27, 2007. Photograph by Flickr user psychdelicfivecats. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bottom, North Carolina school bus. Photograph by Flickr user Dale Moore. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...hundred largest commuter zones in the study (worst here meaning the least likely for children born to low-income families to ever rise out of poverty), was used by The New...