Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...throes of a self-perpetuating cycle of financial hardship coupled with lack of education. For example, eighty-two percent of students with a parent who did not receive a high school diploma...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...tell, it was only glanced at during funerals. Black pallbearers passed directly by it going to the burial site, as they prepared to lift a casket over the rear iron...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...schools, streetcars, libraries, restaurants and parks. The urban environment created new opportunities for the application of Jim Crow. Atlanta relegated Blacks to separate elevators. The new zoo at Grant Park...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...camera atop new Burgert Brothers truck parked by Davis Island pool building, Tampa, Florida, 1936. Catalog no.: PA 5906. In the Tampa Bay area at the turn of the century...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...migratory patterns render it difficult for many African Americans to lay claim to just one regional identity, the South remains a place of great intrigue for a substantial number of...
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Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Mt. Zion Cemetery: Washington, DC, Brief History and Interments, comp. by Paul E. Sluby, Sr. (Washington DC: Columbian Harmony Society, 1984); Paul E. Sluby, Sr., Bury me deep: Burial Places Past...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Arkansas.com, Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, accessed October 15, 2013, http://www.arkansas.com. A particular Arkansas primitivism merits attention here. Arkansas, writes Brooks Blevins, "has become in many ways indistinguishable from...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...and short videos, Southern Spaces will publish peer-reviewed music essays and digital projects as a part of this series. We imagine music essays as collections of audio recordings with accompanying text. Digital...