Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...the South." Jacob Ormanskey was also recruited by Schwartz: "I left New York five weeks ago in company with about sixty men, fifteen of whom were Russian Jews, like myself."15Eugene...
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...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...of a number of nineteenth-century railroads whose proprietors wished to emphasize that their routes were more direct than those of competing roads. Black travelers described it in a discrimination complaint...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...of those in Accomack. Whites, if less likely to be laborers than farmers, were as likely to be tenants as owners. In 1925, 59.8 percent of the farms in Accomack...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...and place-identity of Buenaventura Lakes: I was looking at homes with the realtor and found a house at the corner of Lakeside and Anhinga that I really liked. I heard...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...topical ballads and crossover dance numbers such as "Little Liza Jane." While anglophone black string band and folk blues traditions have not thrived in south Louisiana, all evidence indicates that...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...like Houston or Atlanta and second- or third-tier cities like New Orleans, Memphis, and Miami. Dirtiness Defined For music critics and journalists, the "Dirty South" became shorthand for the growing...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...in public locations like parks or semi-public locations like restrooms, but often leads to sex elsewhere in more private spaces.3Alex Espinoza, Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime. Los...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...Urea: "Whether you'd like to pay people more, or you don't want to pay people more, the driving force is not our heart." The resulting impression of globalization that Morristown...