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...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...the Jackson Company forests. The company claimed to base their Alabama operations on principles of forestry conservation and pronounced a commitment to bringing economic development to southern Alabama. Yet when...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...dollars annually to the city's local economy.8"2015 Military Economic Impact Study" (San Antonio, TX: Department of Government and Public Affairs, accessed July 1, 2021), https://www.sanantonio.gov/Portals/0/Files/OMA/EconImpact/2015SanAntonioMilitaryEconomicImpact.pdf?ver=2017-02-15-142835-893. Although contemporary San Antonio's diversified...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...23 May 2008, http://www.sgvtribune.com/ci_9322048; and Jay Allen Sanford, "Drive-In Theaters in San Diego: Complete Illustrated History 1947 thru 2008," San Diego Weekly Reader, 1 August 2008, online version, http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/01/drive-in-theaters-in-san-diego-complete-illustrate/. When...
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
Janet Powell, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005. Located north of Oak Ridge and about thirty miles northwest of Knoxville, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm was built in the 2000s as...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...to whites. Black novelist Charles Chesnutt noted in an article written in 1901, "If there is any choice of location" when it came to positioning such rooms, "the Negro always...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...The Many Meanings of Race in Life Histories of New York Puerto Rican Return Migrants in San Juan," Centro Journal 24, no. 1 (2012): 38. Many Puerto Ricans negotiated this...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...marched in with his Oglethorpe County infantry company, increasing the number of soldiers to 155 men. With removal just two days away, the privates in Means's company must have been...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...peso devaluation meant many more US factory jobs moved to Mexico where everything from services to utilities to wages had become much cheaper for international investors. Meanwhile, the wages companies...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Bailey K. Ashford immortalized his first hookworm patients in a photograph. The caption reads: "Photograph of a number of natives of Puerto Rico, showing pernicious anemia due to Ankylostoma duodenale."...