There is a widespread concern that imbalances in voter turnout across race and class have
led to biased outcomes in American democracy. Yet empirical tests have generally found …

Despite the hopes of the civil rights movement, researchers have found that the election of
African Americans to office has not greatly improved the well-being of the black community …

Il volume approfondisce le radici etiche ed epistemologiche della ricerca-azione,
accostandole al racconto dettagliato di due esperienze pratiche nel Sud dell'Italia e nel Sud …

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 achieved what two constitutional amendments and three civil
rights acts could not: giving African Americans in the South access to the ballot free from …

Elections between black and white candidates tend to involve close margins and high
turnout. Using a novel dataset of municipal vote returns during the rise of black mayors in US …

Groundswell: Grassroots Feminist Activism in Postwar America offers an essential
perspective on the post-1960 movement for women's equality and liberation. Tracing the …

In 1962, James Meredith became a civil rights hero when he enrolled as the first African
American student at the University of Mississippi. Four years later, he would make the news …

During the post–Reconstruction era in the United States, white southerners marked the
cultural landscape with monuments and memorials honoring the Confederate cause and its …

The newly anointed American cities of the late capitalist moment appear preoccupied with
the reconstitution of urban space. More accurately, select parcels of urban America have …

The Transformation of Plantation Politics explores the effects of black political exclusion, the
sharecropping system, and white resistance on the Mississippi Delta's current economic and …