Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...that in the early twenty-first century we are calling the Global South. Industrial Waves, 1780–2008 Figure 1. Ratio of Employment in Manufacturing to Agriculture 1800–2000. Copyright: Peter Evans and Sarah...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...the Mississippi Delta and an abundance of hardwood forests and natural resources, along with a tradition of entrepreneurialism and a history of labor-intensive human productivity, supplied the means to drive...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...1962), 5–6; Clive Webb, ed., Massive Resistance: Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 8–9. The different factors influencing all policy issues, including race, in...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...an important omission from the main substance of the book: people." Gwen Ottinger, Ellen Griffith Spears, Kate Orff, and Emma Lirette, "Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction," Southern Spaces (November 26, 2013),...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...lone survivor identified Peterson, a black ex-miner crippled by tuberculosis, as the assailant, but many in Birmingham—black and white—doubted that Peterson could have committed the crime. Just months after launching...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...empire abolished slavery. It seemed to be an era of emancipation. Matthew Karp's This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy joins a chorus of scholarship...
Bodies and Souls
...The Mississippi Delta is at the epicenter of these trends, and Jonestown is located in the heart of the Delta. Between the Yazoo and Mississippi Rivers, this town of 1,600...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...Elvis Presley. Courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. The book is organized around chapters devoted to individual genres, and often a single recording artist. Comentale begins by chronicling the Mississippi Delta's industrialization...
Residues of Border Control
...Population” Migration Policy Institute Data Hub (Migration Policy Institute, 2011). These figures explain why the South has been identified as one of the “new” immigration destinations, areas that, unlike California,...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Tax Increases" (report for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, August 12, 2014), http://www.texaspolicy.com/center/local-governance/blog/austin-homeowners-see-continued-property-tax-increases. Austin is also one of the fastest growing US cities, with 3 percent population growth and a...