Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...small, are mostly identified as either white or black). White flight continues in the school system, as another 10,000 opt out; there are now 40,000 whites, 22,000 blacks, and 4,000...
The Black Belt
...Belt, its property owners benefiting from one of the most regressive tax structures in the nation. Segregated education remains a common practice due to white flight into private Christian academies....
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...“negro.” This official action during the Jim Crow era resulted in the flight of many of the state’s Native Americans. Debra H. Rodman, Exhibition guest book, Library of Virginia,...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...resegregation of places of residence, work, leisure, education, and worship Workplace democracy, union organizing, and corporate flight Gendered segregation, e.g. in state legislatures or boardrooms Age-based segregation Memory and memorialization...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...Kevin Kruse, "White Flight," Southern Spaces, November 28, 2005. Houses which had been family-owned became devalued rental properties. The park site went through several distinct phases as ownership changed. For a...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...slats. The post-war, white-flight model of red-lining and restrictive covenants has been transformed. Well-to-do people of color, the poor, and working classes are likewise drawn to urban peripheries. But subdivisions...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...by Greg Shirah. Courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. The conversation between Calypso Magnolia and Island People benefits all who join it. In an era when a...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
Queer [__] Revolution? "The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it." —James Baldwin "The gay revolution began as a literary revolution." This is the first...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...user NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. That an industry significantly responsible for wetland loss might be one of restoration's biggest beneficiaries, as well as its arbiter...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...