Changing Places, Changing Lives
...new and lay audiences. Pargas's bibliography is a marvel. In addition, some of the questions begged by his analysis ought to prompt a new generation of scholars to probe the...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848–1928 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). In particular, he examines Anglo attacks against Mexicans in the...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...apparel of the chain gang figures identify their status. Magee's use of spiral elements lends universality to her compositions. The angry sun, an agitated disc in the chain gang quilt,...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...character of Antoine Doinel, played by Jean-Pierre Léaud.2The films in the Antoine Doinel series are: The 400 Blows (1959 feature), Antoine and Colette (1962 short), Stolen Kisses (1968 feature), Bed...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...The authors add little that is new here, except for their competent analysis of relevant legal cases and their implementation on the federal level.2The bibliography contains most of the expected...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...bucked the Republican tide that was sweeping the "Solid South" (286). In early 1976, spurred by black activists and supported by the city's newly elected progressive white mayor, Joseph P....
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Elias) or she might have been Eliza, daughter to Charlotte, no age given, residing in the Mount Vernon Mansion House. She was the sister of Elvey and Jenny. In any...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...Public Schools." Southern Education Foundation (2015). http://www.southerneducation.org/Our-Strategies/Research-and-Publications/New-Majority-Diverse-Majority-Report-Series/A-New-Majority-2015-Update-Low-Income-Students-Now. ———. "Update A New Majority: Low Income Students in the South and Nation." Southern Education Foundation (2013). http://www.southerneducation.org/News-and-Events/posts/April-2014/Juvenile-Justice-Education-Programs-in-the-United-aspx.aspx. ———. "A New Majority: Low...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...'em no more.'" George Daniel Fred Fussell writes in "'Cowboy' George Daniel: Blues Man from Creek Stand": "George Daniel was born in Macon County, Alabama, in 1929. Daniel has been...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...visual images of New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast — some of them genuinely heart-rending, others gratuitously spectacular — were circulated worldwide via television broadcasts, newspaper and magazine articles,...