Mississippi Delta
...environmental forces, the dynamics of an evolving biracial society, and the Delta's relationship to broader southern, American, and global forces. The "Mississippi Delta" is actually the delta of the Yazoo River,...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...square miles of alluvial floodplain. Map of Mississippi Delta from Charles Wilson's "Mississippi Delta." The Yazoo-Mississippi floodplain is usually called "the Mississippi Delta" or simply "the Delta" by the region's...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Delta and Bayou soil, the photographs portray a depopulated land, testifying to dramatic agricultural and social changes since the 1960s. The Civil Rights Movement, mechanization, and the consolidation of smaller...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...on all the wrong maps. The death threat was because Scott's father—who had brought his wife and children to the Delta in 1919—dreamed of being a black landowner instead of...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...we see instead a process that was directed both from within the region and without and that reconfigured the physical landscape, obliterated old commercial hierarchies, and spawned sweeping environmental changes....
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...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...night Po’ Monkey calls “Family Night,” and many people in the Delta will tell you that the weekend starts then. Guests are met at the door, either by Monkey or...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta," Southern Spaces, January 28, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/bioregional-approach-southern-history-yazoo-mississippi-delta/. As a response and challenge to these limitations, Smith constructs the food story of Mississippi by drawing on civil...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...As a research assistant for Prof. Tullos I first transcribed OCR text into XML for the digital archiving of the journal Southern Changes. In January 2004 I began with Southern...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...justice becomes a reality.1Historians repeatedly argue that the globalization of markets, labor, and investment is anything but new, giving credence to the adage plus ça change, plus c'est pareil—the more...