AFRICAN American household employees, HOUSEHOLD employees, GREAT Depression, 1929-1939, RACE relations in the United States, AFRICAN American history, GEORGIA state history
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The article focuses on Black domestic workers in Southern American white spaces during the Great Depression. The author examines undergraduate essays composed between 1928 and 1940 for sociology courses at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, that reported the white female student's observations of Black household workers.
RACISM in education, EDUCATIONAL finance, EDUCATION & economics, RACE relations in the United States, PROPERTY tax
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The article focuses on the relationship between racism and school finance in rural North Carolina between 1900 and 2018. Topics include how inequality included dispossession and plunder within several school finance policies, the reliance of school finance on property tax, and an analysis of local voting and boundary drawing.