Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Oscar Johnston, head of the immense cotton plantation empire owned by the British corporation Delta Pine and Land; William Mitch, organizer for the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO); Charles F....
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...during the presidency of Donald Trump, who consistently endorsed racist policies and spewed racist rhetoric.2Karen Grigsby Bates, "Is Trump Really That Racist?" NPR, October 21, 2020, https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/925385389/is-trump-really-that-racist. While the public...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...scarcity, shape popular support for different water projects and policies. Throughout Southern Water, Southern Power, he explores the limits of different attempts to overcome water insecurity as the solutions preferred during...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...marginalization that most Maya experience in Guatemala. Economic globalization and neo-liberal policies have further threatened the livelihood of many small farmers and workers in Guatemala, and have contributed to large-scale...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...a march of nearly 2000 workers, almost all African American, for the organization of a National Labor Union (Jones 72; Allen 166-167). Meanwhile, the reactionary policies of the counter-revolution continued...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...Black studies scholar Clyde Woods used the apropos phrase "neo-Bourbon/neoliberal agenda" to refer to the political, social, legal, and economic policies that created and maintained this landscape that prioritized tourism...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...current educational policies and practices at every level on children in extreme poverty. These children exist in significant numbers in school districts in every region and state in the country....
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...city’s geography of development from suburban to urban. The city council adopted Smart Growth policies, which encouraged higher density, environmental protections, and other New Urbanist ideals. These changes, Tretter argues,...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...been damaged by environmental disaster, falling crop prices, worsening poverty and disease, New Deal agricultural policies, and the mechanization of cotton production. Now landowners had decided to hire day laborers...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...very real fear that the cast- and audience-patrons feel intimately as we anticipated the first of what would be many racist, nationalist, and anti-LGBTQ+ policies that the Trump/Pence administration would...