Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...York a few months when he saw a newspaper advertisement for workers that directed him to the office of S. S. Schwartz. There, a man "with red hair, a German"...
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
...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
...November 4, 2009 , http://www.city-data.com/forum/orlando/807347-moving-kissimmee-ks.html. The Internet user received a number of responses over a three-month period: I wouldn't put my kids into Osceola schools. If you don't speak Spanish...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...A. de Caro, "A History of Folklife Research in Louisiana," http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Virtual_Books/Guide_to_State/decaro.html. This is an online reprint of F. A. de Caro, "A History of Folklife Research in Louisiana," in Louisiana...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...the "vim and progress of modern utilitarianism," an island, as it were, cut off from "the outside world."15Howard Pyle, "A Peninsular Canaan," Harper's New Monthly Magazine 58 (May, 1879), 801-817....
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...for Research on Women at the University of Memphis, Highlander Research and Education Center, and Southern Regional Council, 2001), http://www.memphis.edu/crow/pdfs/new_latino_south.pdf; Raymond A. Mohl, "Latinization in the Heart of Dixie: Hispanics...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...distribution and have generated wealth. But the consequences of those decisions, and others, especially those connected with "selling" Memphis by offering typically southern industrial recruitment incentives, marketing cheap land and...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...organization would receive the raw footage after the PBS broadcast. Many months later, staff members approached Anne at nearby Appalshop in Kentucky to ask if she could take the raw...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Texas, June 20, 1961. Photograph by Robert Wilner (Houston Post). Courtesy of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center and the Houston Public Library. Identifier RGD0006N-1961-5656-1. Although Levine's work gives an important...