Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...View," Anniston, Alabama, 1888. Lithograph by E. S. Glover. An artistic rendering of Anniston, "the model city of the South," this drawing shows the smokestacks of the industrial district and...
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...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989). The unearthing of new archaeological information, as...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...and colonial reality led to the recurring pattern of misunderstanding and conflict that continually threatened the deerskin trade. His study threads its way through an era of turmoil, war, negotiation,...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...River. These ventures offered many of the district's black residents an opportunity to don their finest clothes, picnic, and dance. Farther south, Methodist bishop Robert E. Jones established the nation's...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...coal miner and black lung victim. Logan County, WV, 2005. Generations of miners: This project was an opportunity for me to reconnect with the next generation of coalminers that I had...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...the number of photographers creating these images increases, commemoration becomes an increasingly granular—and increasingly ordinary—act. As Fred Ritchin writes in his discussion of the impact of social media on contemporary...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...in West Columbia had daily contact with Latino migrants, many of whom lived in the same apartment complexes. Yet this contact did not lead to mutual understanding and support—in large...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Opinion on Problem Confronting Semo District,"Enterprise-Courier, December 23, 1937. And cry out they did, in images that moved the President of the United States to act on their behalf. Although...