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Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron

Essay On the first Monday of October 1974, a belligerent crowd of two hundred whites besieged a local school bus filled with African American students attempting to depart Destrehan High...

"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society

Essay For over thirty years, historians in the United States have written about slavery in terms broached by John Blassingame's path-breaking book The Slave Community (1972). Blassingame, George Rawick, Lawrence...

African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City

Community Building in a New South City Atlanta offers a sharp perspective of the Black experience in the urban South during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The emergence of its...

Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects

Call for Blog Posts Southern Spaces is an open access, multimedia, peer-reviewed journal publishing innovative scholarship on regions, places, and cultures of the US South as well as their global...

Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives

Statement In the wake of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, David McAtee, Dominique "Rem'mie" Fells, Riah Milton, and Rayshard Brooks—only the most recent deaths...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

Essay In one of the stranger scenes of this year's presidential campaign marathon, a dozen Gees Bend quilters joined hands with candidate John McCain, singing "Old Ship of Zion" as...

The Border South

Defining the Border Anyone who has lived for a time in Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, or Maryland has heard their place of residence categorized as "not really the South." Sometimes, folks...

New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools

Latinos, the largest minority group in US public schools, are surpassing African Americans as the most segregated racial or ethnic group nationally. This isolation is well documented in states like...

References
1.	For more about the New Latino Diaspora, see S. Wortham, E.G. Murillo Jr., and E.T. Hamann, Education in the New Latino Diaspora: Policy and the Politics of Identity (Westport, CT: Ablex, 2002).
2.	M.L Owens and M.J. Rich, "Is Strong Incorporation Enough? Black Empowerment and the Fate of Atlanta's Low-Income Blacks" in Racial Politics in American Cities, ed Rufus P. Browning, Dale Rogers Marshall, and David H. Tabb (New York: Longman Publishers, 2003).
3.	A. Hansen, "Black and White and the Other: International Immigration and Change in Metropolitan Atlanta" inBeyond the Gateway: Immigrants in a Changing America, ed. Elzbieta Gozdziak and Susan Martin (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002).
4.	R. Giacomini. Statistical abstract of Georgia 2000.
5.	US Bureau of the Census 2000.
6.	S. Wortham, E.G. Murillo Jr., and E.T. Hamann, Education in the New Latino Diaspora: Policy and the Politics of Identity (Westport, CT: Ablex, 2002).
7.	Public high schools were examined because they are much more racially and ethnically diverse than elementary or middle schools (Stearns and Lippmann 2003) and offer the greatest potential for interethnic contact.
8.	Other non-Whites include students identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, Native American and Alaskan Native, or Multi-racial.
9.	G. Orfield and N. Gordon, "Schools more separate: Consequences of a decade of resegregation," The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 2001).
10.	G. Orfield and S.E. Eaton, "The Growth of Segregation: African Americans, Latinos, and Unequal Education" inDismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education, ed. Gary Orfield and Susan Eaton (New York: The New Press, 1996).
11.	C.T. Clotfelter, "Are Whites Still Fleeing? Racial Patterns and Enrollment Shifts in Urban Public Schools, 1987-1996," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 20.2 (2001):199-221.
12.	G. Orfield and N. Gordon, "Schools more separate: Consequences of a decade of resegregation," The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA 2001).

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