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Month: July 2017

Changes in White and Black imprisonment rates: poverty, education, type of place

July 19, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment

In my previous posts, I showed that White imprisonment has been growing more in rural areas than urban areas, and that this is tied to the fact that rural places are much more likely to have high poverty rates and low average educational levels. In this post, I follow up

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Education, Poverty, and Rural vs. Urban Incarceration Rates

July 14, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment

In a previous post, I showed how the White imprisonment rate rose in rural counties even as the Black and White imprisonment rates in metropolitan areas fell. In this post, I show that the White rural-urban difference in imprisonment is linked to the White rural-urban difference in poverty and education,

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What the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Actually Says

July 12, 2017 Pamela Oliver Mexican Americans, US history

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo transferred the northern half of Mexico to US control.* It is a central document in US history, as well as in Mexican history. The “Mexican cession” as it is somewhat euphemistically called, is central to the construction of the US nation. Forgetting the cession is

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White rural imprisonment rates

July 7, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment

Unremarked until very recently* , there is a hidden story to be told about the rise in White incarceration in the United States to supplement the story about the mass incarceration of Black people I and many others have been writing about for years. The White story has been going

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Whitewashing the South (and elsewhere)

July 6, 2017 Pamela Oliver Talking and teaching about race

The past is always with us. How we talk about our personal biography and how we talk about our city’s or nation’s history are part of how we function today. Kristen Lavelle’s Whitewashing the South: White Memories of Segregation and Civil Rights is based on interviews with older 44 White residents

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