Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
Essay Allison O. Adams, Lucy (Rhode Island red) and Ethel (Buff Orpington) enjoy a bath of dust and sunshine in Adams’s backyard, Decatur, Georgia, November 2009. For the first two...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...12,960 (4.4%) 297, 052 Orange County 308, 244 (26.9%) 149,457 (13%) 1,145,956 Osceola County 122,146 (45.5%) 72,986 (27.2%) 268,685 Buenaventura Lakes 18,160 (69%) 11,618 (44.5%) 26,079 In comparison to past...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Against Sanderson Farms Far From Over," Philadelphia Tribune, September 18, 1981, 11; "Little Town of Laurel Hosts Historic March," New Journal and Guide (Norfolk, Virginia), June 11, 1980, 9; Colman...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...Vital Statistics Rates in the United States, 1900-1940 (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1943), 704-823; Robert D. Grove and Alice M. Hetzel, Vital Statistics Rates in the United States,...
Encountering COVID
...piling up food and toilet paper. After our agricultural season ended, a lot of our farmworkers migrated to California, particularly Salinas, San Joaquin, Santa Maria. Then we started hearing about...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...NAFTA Food Chain: Women, Food & Globalization, ed. Deborah Barndt (Toronto: Sumach Press, 1999), 141-160; Fran Ansley and Susan Williams, “Southern Women and Southern Borders on the Move: Tennessee Workers...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...(New York: Harper and Row, 1979), 196–218; Jen Jack Gieseking, "Queering the Meaning of 'Neighbourhood': Reinterpreting the Lesbian-Queer Experience of Park Slope, Brooklyn, 1983–2008," in Queer Presences and Absences, eds....
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Business," Memphis Business Journal, October 15, 2004, 1, 50. The presence of Federal Express also influenced Northwest Airlines' decision to establish a Memphis hub for passenger flights. For more than...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...history in the twentieth century1 See Bruce J. Schulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994); and,...
Residues of Border Control
...the United States, or suggest journeys truncated by border enforcement violence.1All photographs: Susan Harbage Page, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Copyright © 2009 and 2010. All rights reserved. Susan Harbage Page, Path...