Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...Thomas McGrath, Gary Snyder, Robert Hedin, Olga Broumas, and others. At the press I learned from Sam and Tree that if a culture is to have great poets, it needs...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...Dancy, R. H. W. Leak et al. vs. Seaboard Airline and Southern Railroad," in Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of North Carolina (Raleigh: Guy V. Barnes,...
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...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
..."the cultural system of ideas about social and linguistic relationships, together with their loading of moral and political interests."5Judith T. Irvine, "When Talk Isn't Cheap: Language and Political Economy," American...
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...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
Essay And what erudition. He can even read stone. Only he never figures out that the veins in the marble of Diocletian's baths are the burst blood vessels of slaves...
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...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Chief, Washington, D.C., 1838. Hand-colored lithograph by John T. Bowen. Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.24339. Bottom, John Ridge (ca. 1802 – June 22, 1839), 1825. Portrait...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
Introduction Born in 1811 on a riverboat in Siam, Chang and Eng, the original Siamese Twins, were brought to America in 1829 for a touring exhibition as freaks. They soon...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...The Public Debate," Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 22 (1992): 392-394. It was no accident that multinational corporations looking for favorable terms and cheap labor identified Mexico as...