New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...California, Texas, and Florida with historically high levels of Latino immigration, but less is known about how these newcomers are met in nontraditional destination locales known as the "New Latino...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...the number he needs to pass his bill, while sending a political message that will keep his supporters in line.3Sam Stockard and Adam Friedman, “Tennessee’s statewide school voucher bill dead,...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
Review Building on a rich literature that explores the spatial dimensions of US race relations and capital formation, Andrew Kahrl's The Land Was Ours traces the histories of African American...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...well as historiographical developments in the study of chiefdoms, disease, and coalescence in the twenty years since Merrell's publication, necessitated revision of Catawba history. Beck answers that call with skill,...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...momentary experience of freedom from plantation slavery inevitably led to his creation of a unique cultural space, but we have no evidence of his attendant development of identity derived from...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...UMWA miner, 48, lost his job and then his house. He now sleeps in his local union hall. Cannelton, WV, 2005. Changes in healthcare: The whole healthcare system has changed...
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
...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
...emerged in his rendering "as social actors rather than simply figures acted upon, and as thinkers rather than simply figures thought about," according to historian Nicholas Natanson. What is most...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...was a boy, lost and found. The river found him, and then he returned and found it. First there was a language to learn that had not been his own....