Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...African Americans were not welcome in Oregon. (I say this with no small amount of shame. I was born and grew up in Portland, Oregon.) More to the point, this...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...land use, see Karl Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001); Mart A. Stewart, "What Nature Suffers...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...of southern deindustrialization and Asian labor markets. Who makes what where, when, and why depends on a chase around the globe for cheap labor that involves overlapping waves of industrialization...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...immigration. In 1991, when the earliest footage was shot, most east Tennessee residents were not aware of the growing numbers of Latino immigrants. But some of the women on the...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...of a number of nineteenth-century railroads whose proprietors wished to emphasize that their routes were more direct than those of competing roads. Black travelers described it in a discrimination complaint...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
..."the cultural system of ideas about social and linguistic relationships, together with their loading of moral and political interests."5Judith T. Irvine, "When Talk Isn't Cheap: Language and Political Economy," American...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...topical ballads and crossover dance numbers such as "Little Liza Jane." While anglophone black string band and folk blues traditions have not thrived in south Louisiana, all evidence indicates that...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...increase from forty-four to sixty-seven the number of post offices in Accomack and Northampton counties. The advent of the railroad in 1884 further stimulated the establishment of post offices both...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...birth control. Background Earl S. Parker, Map of the "Oriental" population of California in "The Real Yellow Peril," The Independent 105 (May 7, 1921): 476. Marshall De Motte,...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...and in interior sections of California. The percentage of new legal and illegal Mexicans arriving in California dropped ten percentage points during the 1990s, from an all-time high of fifty-seven...