Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...peoples all contested Mexico's shifting borderlands.3See Pekka Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008). The Comanche region, Mexico, 1832. Map of Mexico's nineteenth-century shifting borderlands courtesy of...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...of migration. An estimated two million Mexican farmers and farm workers lost their livelihoods as cheap US agricultural products, especially corn, flooded Mexican markets.14Monica Campbell and Tyche Hendricks, “Mexico's Corn...
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...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...this phenomenon (39, 93, 114). Despite the deep interconnectedness of the United States and Mexico, as well as the major political and social questions this interdependence engenders, narratives of US-Mexico...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
Introduction Location of Lockhart, Alabama, 2012. On a warm spring day in 1904, former governor of Maryland and lumberman E. E. Jackson, along with several associates, traveled to Alabama to...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...Rivera Torres as one of the wealthiest men in Mexico with a net worth exceeding $100 million and over seventy-eight projects underway in Mexico." With help from Stanley Lane, a...
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...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...percent of the foreign born in those two neighboring states came from Mexico in that same year. So rather than think that this migration from Mexico to New Orleans is...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...a Forgotten Rebellion and its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 27-37. For Johnson the railroad penetrated the isolated region along the Texas-Mexico border...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...port in the United States and forms a vital link in the 2,600-mile inland waterway connecting the United States to Mexico via the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.8Karim...