Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...and geographically scattered day laboring population in Atlanta.Because of the sheer number of day labor positions and the diversity of methods for procuring employment, some contingent workers called Atlanta "day...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...Enloe, "Plot Time Series: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center," last modified September 24, 2012, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/time-series/; Harry Korshinsky affidavit, DOJ Files NA, RG 60, Class 50, Box...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...faced a plethora of wage violations: not being paid on time or at all, no overtime rates, broken time clocks, and pressure to take work home. Safety violations abound: fire...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...valorized fallen Civil War soldiers who fought on opposing sides and depicted Memorial Day as an occasion for surviving "Blue and Gray" veterans to enjoy leisure time together. Memorial Day...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...within the last few months."19"Mary Warner Epidemic," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), May 8, 1923. Two days later, at the request of District Attorney Marr and a number of medical professionals, City...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...the gulf which separates it from outside modern life." Like many Americans of his day, Pyle saw the landscape as an expression of a human society and modernity as a...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...in the South," South Today, October 1969, 1. By the 1970s, as many public schools in the South were being desegregated for the first time, promoters of private schools were...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...styles have—for the most part— expired. Today the 1934 Lomax recordings provide the best early record of this diverse array of types. These styles include—but are not limited to—traditional French...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...areas have complex relationships to commercialized spaces—sometimes directly connected, at other times peripheral and symbiotic, and at others seemingly divorced. At the same time, these seven cruising narratives I feature...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...fried the day before yesterday, old bread and a slice of musty pie," whereas "the white passengers in the lunch room may get a hot drink or a fried egg...