Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...United States. The Southeast became a strong magnet for Latino immigrants during this decade because of plentiful jobs for low-wage workers in the construction, food-processing, agriculture, and service industries. Immigrants...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...the United States for the states included in each Census region, http://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/reference/us_regdiv.pdf. As used throughout this essay, "region" refers to the Atlanta metropolitan region or Atlanta MSA. a trend that...
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...
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....
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...Verey and Penelope Hobhouse. Looking into Ryan Gainey's Garden, Decatur, Georgia, March 26, 2010. Photograph by Flickr user JR P. Creative commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Chad Stogner, founder of...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...he nonetheless shows consistent themes in Percy's life and poetry, as with "An Epistle from Corinth," expertly used to evidence the writer's struggles with particular strands of Christian doctrine, his...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...structures around them had not changed; because reform laws would get repealed by a shift in the larger forces of power; because they themselves would forget what they knew, under...
Sea Changes in Personhood
..."Belles Demoiselles Plantation," Maryse Condé's Crossing the Mangrove, Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, or Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild. I have already used it successfully...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...She made me promise to photograph her house before I left for the evening. After she left I went to her house. All that remained was the concrete slab and...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...user Gilbert Sopakuwa. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. González Melo: I remember that in the early 2000s, when I was walking through Old Havana at night towards my house,...