Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...felt too weak to continue to work, or attempted escape, bosses and guards whipped them like oxen or beat them into submission. When a young boy named Joe ran into...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...use of child labor, led to a boycott of Uzbek cotton by some European nations beginning in 2009. Founded two thousand years ago, Margilan is one of the oldest cities...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...female travelers. The Raleigh station had no ladies' waiting room for Black women, who were "not allowed to go into the general ladies' waiting room." They, too, had to occupy...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...dominance of the tourism industry. Although I do not go into detail here, one of the important distinctive features of the migration of Puerto Ricans to Florida is the class...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...of its rambling complexity. There are a number of reasons why this project is important. To begin with, the musical traditions of southern Louisiana, outside of New Orleans, remain only...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...provision of better educational opportunities for their children, the adoption of up-to-date styles of architecture, the installation of indoor plumbing, and the purchase of automobiles, pianos, and other amenities. In...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...but also because of its two-hundred-year history of place-specific decisions, activities, and transformations. The city's geographic location on the bluffs of the Mississippi River near the rich cotton-producing region of...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...straw man set up by the Authority's opponents to stand, Manganiello too easily dismisses TVA's influence on resource development outside its service area. He similarly downplays the importance of other...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...to give us no lip. They’re not going to talk back to us. They’re not going to do nothing. They’re basically going to come in and work, do their jobs....
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...owned each business or that queer community was the only clientele. This nuance also matters when thinking about the relationship of cruising to commercial space, whether or not that commercial...