Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Business," Memphis Business Journal, October 15, 2004, 1, 50. The presence of Federal Express also influenced Northwest Airlines' decision to establish a Memphis hub for passenger flights. For more than...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...“Mound Bayou,” Mississippi Encyclopedia, July 11, 2017, https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/mound-bayou/. At its height, Mound Bayou, the “Jewel of the Delta,” housed successful Black businesses, a public school system, and a community-run hospital.2Rosen,...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...Rapidly industrializing regions, whether the New South in 1900, Ciudad Juarez in 1995, or China's Pearl River Delta in Guangdong Province in 2005, have taken full advantage of what has...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...black families and middle class black families. Mary Pattillo-McCoy, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 20. So while middle-class...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...to the WAVY statement is in Classen, Watching Jim Crow, 49. Classen considers the WAVY statement a thinly veiled "studied neutrality." Because we do not know whether WAVY broadcast anything...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...track of the nut. The resulting legacy was, according to Pyle, an impoverished white class, "woefully ignorant," and an unproductive upper class, "indolently unprogressive." Pyle saw only one way to...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...racism and racial oppression. Though Woody Guthrie is used as a foil to demonstrate vernacular music's relationship to class, Comentale misses an opportunity to demonstrate just how class contributed to...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...late seventies, which reflected a growing national discussion about the "black underclass"68Michael B. Katz, "The Urban 'Underclass' as a Metaphor of Social Transformation," in The "Underclass" Debate, Views from History,...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...feminism unnecessary, and gay sexuality nonexistent. None of that was true, of course, but white, middle-class kids often skated over the consequences. On some vague level, we sensed that we...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Justin Driver, "Supremacies and the Southern Manifesto," Texas Law Review 92 (2014): 1082, https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/journal_articles/4043/. These white men included die-hards, such as those found in the middle-class Citizens' Councils who usually...