Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...a diversity policy as a central feature" (106). Student assignments—either parent-initiated ones (applying to district magnet schools) or district-mandated ones (requiring attendance at a school to balance student populations along...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...subsidy programs. The Federal Extension Service (FES) offered advice on the latest farming techniques, organized 4-H clubs for rural youth, and established home demonstration clubs for rural women. The Farmers...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...The Southern Quarterly 50, no. 4 (Summer 2013): 5, http://www.usm.edu/southern-quarterly-literary-magazine/intros/504edintro.pdf. In an essay eulogizing the poet Seamus Heaney, Trethewey describes feeling a "calling to make sense of my South, with...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
Review Kelly Yandell, Foodways Texas oyster tasting at Gaido's Restaurant, Galveston, Texas, 2011. On a late February Saturday night in Galveston, Texas, I stood shoulder to shoulder with a hundred...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...wife Magdalena Zapędowska-Eriksen at an early music festival in the southeastern city of Jarosław. The Ireland Convention—the first large Sacred Harp singing for more than half of the participants—was an...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...the Department of Art and Design at Missouri State University. He has received a number of awards for his photographic work including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...for?" In Florida, confusion over the voting eligibility of thousands of ex-felons has a number of interest groups involved in a campaign to clarify the voter rolls across the state....
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...a way to avoid levying new fees or issuing road-building bonds. Ingram writes that even after passage of an enhanced Federal Aid Highway Act in 1921, "[t]raditional racial politics collided...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...I speak as a New Englander — have strengthened my feeling of sympathy with [the Nashville Agrarians of I'll Take My Stand].... I think that the chances for the re-establishment...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...of racial segregation so encompassing and effective that it overturned the limited gains of Reconstruction and guaranteed the subordination of Blacks in every area of life. Jim Crow, as the...