Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...The implications of this trend are far-reaching. It indicates persisting economic hardship for a large number of families with school-age children, signaling that children who usually have the largest educational...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...Biggers Papers, Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. In July 1957, Houston-based artist John Biggers traveled on a United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) fellowship to...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. The 2012 United States presidential election results have led mapmakers and illustrators over the past week to search for new ways to...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...William Faulkner. Among a host of contributions to any number of scholarly debates, Wise's crisp and clear articulation of Percy's views of love and sexuality will attract the attention of...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...of jazz, brass band, R&B, and funk (as well as blues and zydeco). What might all be lumped into the single category of "hiphop" in other parts of the United...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...but its last appearance is in 1807—a year before the United States prohibited the importation of slaves. This shift in the visuality of slavery might be of interest to scholars...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...vaccines available for over two years. Shutdowns and enforced quarantines ended, even in holdout nations. The WHO's announcement signaled that other countries, including the United States, would follow suit if...
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
...ethnic politics in the United States, is the author of The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America (New York: New York University Press, 2012). Daniel A. Pollock, a longtime resident...
The Bulletin—March 5, 2013
...discovered no trace of HIV in the baby. As The New York Times reported, transmission of HIV from mother to baby is rare in the United States, about two hundred...