The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...color—primarily African Americans and Hispanics. African American (43.4 percent) and Hispanic (34.4 percent) students make up 78 percent of the total enrollment of the one hundred school districts in the...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...illuminating and satisfyingly provocative. About the Author Angela D. Dillard is a professor of social theory and practice at the University of Michigan where she specializes in American and African-American...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...were surprised by the overwhelming majority of African Americans in attendance; it was Fourth of July Homecoming weekend for Mid-South black families and a visit to the museum has become...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...already marginalized African American community. Around a thousand people were displaced, dozens of businesses shuttered, and overall racial segregation was intensified as most African Americans resettled in areas further east...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...indelible mark as a minister and social activist in service to marginalized people of every race, creed, and calling," Carter said. "He used the force of his words and the...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...others to continuously struggle must be understood within the current context of deindustrialization and economic restructuring. In the late twentieth century, New Orleans became a service-oriented tourist economy with culture,...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...cranes of the Nashville Avenue terminal, it is almost impossible to come into visual contact with port activity in New Orleans. This is true despite the fact that the American...
A Mess of Poke
...sallet ("salad"), grows natively with astonishing vigor across the American South. Despite what Tony Joe suggests, however, pokeweed is not an exclusively rural species, in "the woods and the fields."...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...peoples, in such projects as the collection she co-edited with Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South...