Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...Mexico (1965) that describes Confederate flight as "an attempt to snatch some sort of victory out of defeat"2Andrew Rolle, The Lost Cause: The Confederate Exodus to Mexico (Norman: University of...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...of migration. An estimated two million Mexican farmers and farm workers lost their livelihoods as cheap US agricultural products, especially corn, flooded Mexican markets.14Monica Campbell and Tyche Hendricks, “Mexico's Corn...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...had adjusted to the dim light inside, I could not believe what I saw. There in Margilan, the silk capital of Uzbekistan, was a room full of cast-iron looms from...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...this phenomenon (39, 93, 114). Despite the deep interconnectedness of the United States and Mexico, as well as the major political and social questions this interdependence engenders, narratives of US-Mexico...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...agent of the company, a negro, met us and took us by train to Milner, Alabama. From there this negro, who was a foreman for Smith and Company, took us...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...Rivera Torres as one of the wealthiest men in Mexico with a net worth exceeding $100 million and over seventy-eight projects underway in Mexico." With help from Stanley Lane, a...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...Citizenship in the American Democracy (New York: Doubleday, 1908), 223. Its facilities included a grand main waiting room, several ladies' waiting rooms, a gentlemen's reading room, a gentlemen's smoking room,...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...percent of the foreign born in those two neighboring states came from Mexico in that same year. So rather than think that this migration from Mexico to New Orleans is...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...infrastructure in this northwestern Missouri border county, from schools to churches, rural mail delivery routes, roads, and railroads. He argued that the development pattern of the county in the nineteenth...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...International, the busiest passenger airport in the world.7Jane Roberts, "Catch the Taxiway," Memphis Commercial Appeal, June 26, 2006, A1. Michael Gallis and Associates, FedEx and Northwest Airlines Routes, 2008. Less...