Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...to action. Mayorga-Gallo argues that statistical integration should not be an ultimate goal for researchers or policy makers. The relationship between proximity and equity is not fixed. Instead, diversity can...
And the Prize Goes to...
...folklore, information sciences, public policy, music, food studies, and economics. The seminar voted Simone Delerme's 2014 Southern Spaces article, "'Puerto Ricans Live Free': Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape," as...
Good-Bye to All That?
...of the country. That same policy of "Negro-Democratic identification," he added, would attract disenchanted white working class voters in the North as well.1Kevin P. Philips, The Emerging Republican Majority (New Rochelle,...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...that requires higher skills and knowledge from all who seek a decent living and a good life. People and policymakers must realize that their future and their grandchildren's future are...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
Review Early in April 2009 the Mexican state of Veracruz identified cases of H1N1 influenza that led, by April 22, to the Mexican health secretary's declaring an influenza epidemic. The...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...government was over. He signed NAFTA and a welfare reform bill that made liberals in his party howl. His political legacy lay in the policy triangulation that redefined progressive politics...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Mississippi Association of Methodist Ministers and Layman) and publications (e.g. The Baptist Record) utilized Biblical narratives as well as the artful crafting and support of state policy in an effort...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...his PhD from Columbia University in 1993. Prof. Wiese’s areas of interest include the history of housing and residential landscapes, housing policy, suburbanization, and the spatial production of race and...
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...Law and Policy, which shows all of the legal filings, decisions, and news in every state relating to the act. The map demonstrates how arguments over the constitutionality of the...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
Review In Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith, sociologists Terry Rey and Alex Stepick map the vibrant diasporic religious cultures of Miami, the site of the largest Haitian-descended population...