Native Americans and Colonists: The Beginnings of Slavery in the South

Slavery in the South was not always linked directly to race. The history of forced bondage begins before European arrival and eventually evolves toward racialized chattel slavery based on the colonizers’…

Pink Water & Pigs: Environmental Justice for Native Americans in North Carolina

The Wheels on the Bus Go Round & Round in Cycles of Systematic Racism, Inequality

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Public transportation in the United States is broken. Across the country, mass transit programs suffer from high operating costs, low ridership, and an overall…

The Chicken Industry is Clucked

Poultry Production and its Manipulation of the South

The Racial Shape Of Atlanta

The 2008 housing collapse has brought to the forefront yet another crisis of modern America: the persistent…

Selling Wilderness: Whitewater Rafting Advertising on the Nantahala River

The 1972 release of the film Deliverance, starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ron Cox, and based on the James Dickey novel of the same name, introduced the American public to the wonders…

Native American Land: Who Really Controls It?

Currently, there are a total of eight Native American tribes in North Carolina. They make up only 1.2% of the total NC population, so it isn’t a surprise that they face a lack of representation, especially in environmental issues (“Environmental…

EPA Brownfields: Contaminated by Discriminatory Practices

Little Pink Houses for You and Me

Suburbs. When we hear the word we think of the aerial view of perfect, timeless, cookie-cutter houses grouped around cul-de-sacs. We imagine kids running around outside and learning to ride bikes, fathers returning from work to a wife, who suspiciously looks like Carol…

The Dammed River

As the postbellum South began its long road to recovery, the government saw industrialization as a perfect tool in creating economic prosperity for the region. In order to achieve this, better means of transportation, wider-spread access to electricity, and protection of industrial centers from…