Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...2006 far below fifty percent. Elsewhere in the country, only three states—New Mexico, California, and Oregon—had a majority of low-income students. Given recent trends, however, public schools in the western...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...historian Hampton Dunn, who recognized the priceless value of the archive as a record of Tampa history. Dunn paid Cox $500 for an unspecified number of the negatives, some of...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...political geography to denote borderlands, especially ones to which members of subject or refugee populations migrated in large numbers to escape the pressures of the state and/or the capitalist economies...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...health and healing where there were small numbers of Black patients.11Fett, Working Cures. Gonaver warns us not to read Galt's attitude as any kind of emancipatory rhetoric, but as representing...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...affairs. The fiercely segregated First Baptist Church of Jackson counted several influential lieutenants of Jim Crow society among its active leadership and membership: segregationist Governor Ross Barnett taught Sunday School,...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...Interviews James Franco," The Los Angeles Review of Books, May 15, 2013, http://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/james-franco-on-his-adaptation-of-faulkners-as-i-lay-dying. And this town isn't just Tinseltown. Indeed, Franco has been cutting a swath across the country from...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...and a screened front porch. An oak tree shelters the house from the late afternoon sun. The white iris is in bloom, as is the white wisteria. There is an...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...creative and innovative mapping of the country's "petrochemical culture." The book creates a new benchmark for representing eco-cultural history, outlining the impact of the nation's oil dependent economy on the...
Piedmont Blues
...reflects this, meshing traces of gospel, fiddle tunes, blues, country, and ragtime into its rolling, exhuberant sound." --Nick Spitzer Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley has significant links to the...