New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...For example, researchers calculate the number of Latinos attending schools with more than 50% minority enrollments in district X divided by the total number of Latinos in school district X....
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...parents’ curriculum choice,” Louisiana Illuminator, Mar. 20, 2024, https://lailluminator.com/2024/03/20/education-savings-accounts/; Greg LaRose, “High price tag for education savings accounts leads to proposal overhaul,” Louisiana Illuminator, May 2, 2024, https://lailluminator.com/2024/05/02/education-savings-account/. The Tennessee...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...had come to an abandoned wasteland. The desolation of this landscape must have presented a sore disappointment. The large indigenous populations, and their precious metals and labor, encountered by Spaniards...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...a predominantly British vision of orderly settlements on the land of colonial Georgia, an imagined place that implied the English longing for control of lands and economies. The empire is...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...beach communities and leisure culture from the late-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries. Kahrl sets his narrative against the growth of "coastal capitalism," an economic system "characterized by the commoditization of...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...and federal mining dust laws and compensation law. He appreciated the fact that I was returning three decades later to resume my documentation of his work with black lung victims....
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...people have drawn on a limited number of tropes. Whether Bayard Wootten's photographic illustrations for Cabins in the Laurel,1Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel (Chapel Hill: University of North...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...happen when the rent subsidies ran out. The lack of public transportation also made finding employment especially difficult for low-income displaced. Single mothers seeking work lacked affordable, accessible childcare. In...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Missouri Bootheel by late 1937, 2009. Also indicates Highways 60 and 61 and the location of the spillway. (larger version) Despite these gains, the crisis for landless farmers only accelerated...
Besieged Terrain
...removal (MTR), involves scraping off the top layers of earth and dumping them into a nearby hollow. Federal law requires the mining companies to either restore the land, which they...