Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...tank at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. https://www.future-ed.org/legislative-tracker-2024-state-private-school-choice-bills/; Seanna Adcox, “‘Universal’ school choice approved in SC House before pilot even begins,” South Carolina Daily Gazette, Mar. 21, 2024,...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Rusk, The "Segregation Tax": The Cost of Racial Segregation to Black Homeowners (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2001), http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2001/10/metropolitanpolicy-rusk. Rusk finds a "segregation tax" for black homeowners and non-black homeowners living...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...was the Republican nominee on a presidential ticket headed by James G. Blaine that narrowly lost to Democrats Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks. Images courtesy of the author. When...
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...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Indies "likely inspired Gabriel [Prosser] and his fellow insurrectionists to secure emancipation through violence" (29). Like Washington and Louverture, Gabriel, when he led a slave rebellion in Richmond in 1800,...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...Finland. His research interests include North American environmental history and the history and culture of the US South. His publications include This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...ways that race and gender shape and are shaped by health policy; and the inseparable connection between health justice and health advocacy. Beginning in 2022, the series expands to include...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...que volvieran a solicitar el asilo y a muchos les fue posible legalizar su estado.9Susan Gzesh, “Central Americans and Asylum Policy during the Reagan Era,” Migration Policy Institute, Migration Information...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...417,593 against. In the first genuinely metropolitan conversation about transportation policy in nearly half a century, Atlanta area voters basically agreed to disagree. But about what?3Atlanta Regional Commission, "Draft Precinct...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...the political language of the New Deal, into a visual text that policy maker, pundits, and ordinary voters nationwide would understand. The protestors who were the "thinkers" and activists that...