Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...the Jackson Company forests. The company claimed to base their Alabama operations on principles of forestry conservation and pronounced a commitment to bringing economic development to southern Alabama. Yet when...
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...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...to whites. Black novelist Charles Chesnutt noted in an article written in 1901, "If there is any choice of location" when it came to positioning such rooms, "the Negro always...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Bailey K. Ashford immortalized his first hookworm patients in a photograph. The caption reads: "Photograph of a number of natives of Puerto Rico, showing pernicious anemia due to Ankylostoma duodenale."...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...of the least violent acts many of these white men enacted in any given week. Black men, women, and children, as well as many Native people, had long been held...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...Duany notes, there is the presence of "a large number of well-educated professionals and managers, most of whom define themselves as white in the census."31Jorge Duany, "The Orlando Ricans: Overlapping...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...those in the songs from this recording session can be found in E. A. McIlhenny's book, Befo' de War Spirituals (1933). McIlhenny was and remains the best-known scion of the...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...substantial construction also enables them to be easily and cheaply moved when threatened by the gradual encroachment of the sea, which upon many sections of the coast, effects in the...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Grogan and Tony Proscio, Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival (New York: Basic Books, 2000). Local development initiatives for producing and marketing agricultural products, enhancing distribution infrastructure, recruiting...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
Review Christopher J. Manganiello opens Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region with a discussion of the drought that hit the...