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Author Q&A with Jasmin Sandelson
Sep 27 2023
My Girls explores the overlooked yet transformative power of female friendship in a low-income Boston-area neighborhood. In this innovative and compassionate book, researcher Jasmin Sandelson joins teenage girls in their homes, at their hangouts and parties, and online to show how they use their con
When Do You Stop Arriving?: African American Histories in Rural California
Mar 01 2023
Nine young men and women sitting in a field, Tulare County, 1912 [229]. Roberts Family Papers, African American Museum & Library at Oakland.California History recently published its second special issue on the history of African Americans in California. This issue arrived in a moment of prof
How the Pandemic’s ‘Zoomtown Effect’ is Reshaping Rural America
Apr 22 2021
By Jennifer Sherman, author of Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American DreamIn the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, rural communities across the U.S. have been experiencing what has been labeled the “Zoomtown” effect: real estate booms fueled by remote workers buying secon