March 2013 Cover

March 2013

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‘Everything Is Gone’: Family-Planning Clinics Disappear From Rural Texas

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Testing the Limits: A Texas Mother’s Radical Revolt Against Standardized Tests

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Eye On Texas: Nostalgia

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Poem: Eugene “Gene” Novogrodsky’s “Writer Stares”

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Universities Criticized For Over-Emphasizing Race, Gender and Class Issues In History

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Essay: Ties That Bind

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Abusing Their Religion: Lawrence Wright’s Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & The Prison of Belief

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Gourds on Film: All The Labor Documents Austin Band’s Rise and Thrall

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Left, Behind: The Hidden Progressive Christian Community of Texas

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Direct Quote: Fishing For a Living On the Texas Coast

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Tyrant’s Foe: Lourdes Flores Helps Colonia Residents Help Themselves

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In Landmark Criminal Case, Citgo Could Get Off Easy

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