Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...providing voucher funding. This near-complete freedom to instruct children in whatever way the voucher-supported private schools choose is often justified on the basis that such schools provide students a better...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...be, a sovereign and independent State." The seceding states became "Independent Republics" that came together to "form… a Republic Government of Confederate States, whose right to exist should be peaceably...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...University of Illinois Press, 1994); Charles M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996); Susie Erenrich,...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...admirable policy of not having students work for free. Luckily, it didn't take long for then-managing-editor Sarah Toton to find the needed funding to add another position. I joined Southern...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Pride Houston. There were two queer bookstores, a free monthly magazine, and several free weekly papers. Soon, I was working for one of those papers, distributing copies all over the...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...States. Alito's observation echoes the outline of an argument that the national Republican Party is aggressively advancing to disable the Voting Rights Act. The National Republican Redistricting Trust (NRRT), the...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...that was supposed to protect and negotiate with Indians. Between 1805 and 1827, the state held five lotteries to give away land that had belonged to the Muscogee Creek Indians....
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...of Seventh Street and south of Manor Road adjacent to I-35 experienced between 18 and 31 percent increases in white population between 2000 and 2010.23"Change in the White Percentage of...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
When Chuck Willis released his single "Betty and Dupree" in 1958, he and Atlantic Records wanted to keep teenagers across the country dancing the Stroll. Willis's "C. C. Rider" (1957)...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...of Texas, Captain Phillip Dimmitt's Goliad Insurrection, James Long's Second Republic of Texas, Mexico, the First Republic of Texas, France, and Spain. Mexico might seem an unlikely destination for defeated Confederates,...