Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...wild landscapes have remained virtually untouched." Ironically, the photograph the PBS program chose to use on its opening page shows a site that is far from a "natural" area devoid...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the growing of rice. Trapping and hunting supplemented agricultural production, with communal identity reinforced through typical rural rituals such as house raisings, weekly house dances, horse racing, and traditional music....
Love and Death in Mississippi
...complete. While she was gone, we kids would take turns showering in our house's one shower, make our sack lunches (usually peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and some version of...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...dirt track racers defying death in stripped-down vehicles with high performance engines, the glitz and product promotion of modern day NASCAR, and the window-tinted, stretch-limo world of rap culture. Country...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...the ideological value of the continued relegation of black people to things and, inextricably, carceral value for southern racial capital through the use of such objects for labor" (87). Rituals...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...as they watched white guardians try to assert mastery over the African and African American women, men, and children they enslaved. These US-educated youth then returned to their tribal nations—and...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
The Dispossession What happened in rural America during the quarter century after 1950 has been eclipsed by the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and growing...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...women, especially in self-defense organizations that sometimes succeeded in mounting jailhouse defenses to prevent lynchings. When black people defended a jailhouse, white men often preferred not to risk a confrontation....
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...white interpreters at the site used the less emotionally charged term servants instead of slaves to describe the plantation laborers. In the last few years, historians at Arlington House have...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...that would politicize the plight of landless farmers and prod the government to help them. It was not a strike because the people there had already had their labor rejected...