Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...and the complex relationships between blacks and the land along waterfronts that range from the Potomac Flats in Washington, DC, through the Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads, down the Carolina...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...contested spaces of houses and farms, Paulett looks at an entire river system, the Savannah, and its surrounding landscape. In Paulett's study, the British traders, white and African boatmen, and...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...larger changes in southeastern Native polities between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Beck's work complicates James Merrell’s monumental 1989 text on Catawba history, The Indians' New World.1James H. Merrell, The...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...with 4x4s, laying foundations of cement blocks, insulating homes with the durable stacking of bricks and scraping of the mortar trowel—and Mildred's domestic work—washing dishes, ironing clothes, speaking on the...
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
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...a connection between crunk's destructive imagery and that of Texas bluesman Blind Willie Johnson. However, crunk's exploration of rage and violence as enjoyment and release in the club context is...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...median for all groups—Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics. Hispanics in West Columbia appear to have both higher numbers in poverty and higher household incomes than Hispanics or Blacks in Columbia or...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...to live for ourselves," he explained.32Alonzo J. Julien, New Madrid, "Letters Written on Backs of Survey Blanks," ca. January 1939, Reel 10, STFU Papers. While LaForge provided a great talking...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...of seeing it.39Ibid., 50. Each photograph speaks to Appalachia in some way, but what it speaks to is often just outside the frame. About the Author Mark Nunes is the...