Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...see A. E. Parkins, The South, Its Economic-Geographic Development (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1938). The Jackson Plant, Lockhart, Alabama. American Lumberman 1907, Part 1, January–June 1907, Forest History...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...in this party who still cling to the old communist values, I would guess, of egalitarianism, of labor rights. You know, after all, this party did promise a worker's paradise....
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...seats for himself and his papers and yells gruffly for your tickets almost before the train has started," wrote Du Bois, describing race relations in a typical Jim Crow car:...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...and Structure in Panethnic Identity Formation: The Case of Latino/a Entrepreneurs," in How the United States Racializes Latinos, 200–213. "Hispanic" and "Latino" panethnic labels have been critiqued for homogenizing a...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...which culminated in the American Patchwork documentary Cajun Country: Lache pas la patate.36Ancelet, "Lomax in Louisiana." Cajun Country aired on PBS in 1990, bringing the intervention Lomax began in 1934 full...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...timber carts passed frequently on the roads, and prop-laden cars filled the rail sidings of Parksley, Bloxom, Hallwood, and other upper Accomack depots. In 1891 Chincoteague Island alone handled 34,690...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...produces mixed results. Paradoxically, each new wave of development strategies tends to reproduce old patterns of inequality, generating wealth and power for a few and maintaining the structure of poverty...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...in "beautiful parks, for whites and blacks, separate parks" (105). He also highlights the states' rights rhetoric of landowners who accused the Army Corps of Engineers of socialism in their effort...
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...
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...