Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Chief, Washington, D.C., 1838. Hand-colored lithograph by John T. Bowen. Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.24339. Bottom, John Ridge (ca. 1802 – June 22, 1839), 1825. Portrait...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...many US officials were aware of those numbers. Nonetheless, US leaders who visited postwar Japan retained the impression that masses of people who were poorly dressed and homeless, including orphans...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Against Sanderson Farms Far From Over," Philadelphia Tribune, September 18, 1981, 11; "Little Town of Laurel Hosts Historic March," New Journal and Guide (Norfolk, Virginia), June 11, 1980, 9; Colman...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the Sacred Womb: The Sacred Cultures of Enslaved Women in Georgia, 1750–1861." She is currently assistant professor of Religious Studies, American Religious History, and African-American Religious History at Vanderbilt University....
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing,” the author describes the “Hoboken style” of Sacred Harp singing in south Georgia’s Okefenokee region, where “Georgia Harmonies” will stop (and feature Sacred Harp singing) in...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...Georgia. Photo by Mary Odem, 2001 Blessed Sacrament Chapel in the Misión Católica de Nuestra Señora de las Américas. Doraville, Georgia. Photo by Mary Odem, 2000 ...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...in May 1970, and first published in the Ladder 11/12 (August/September 1970). Charis's owners, as we will see, welcomed this type of involvement. Over time the store itself, founded as...