Inside Poor Monkey's
...night Po’ Monkey calls “Family Night,” and many people in the Delta will tell you that the weekend starts then. Guests are met at the door, either by Monkey or...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta," Southern Spaces, January 28, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/bioregional-approach-southern-history-yazoo-mississippi-delta/. As a response and challenge to these limitations, Smith constructs the food story of Mississippi by drawing on civil...
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...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...that in the early twenty-first century we are calling the Global South. Industrial Waves, 1780–2008 Figure 1. Ratio of Employment in Manufacturing to Agriculture 1800–2000. Copyright: Peter Evans and Sarah...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...an important omission from the main substance of the book: people." Gwen Ottinger, Ellen Griffith Spears, Kate Orff, and Emma Lirette, "Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction," Southern Spaces (November 26, 2013),...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Justice Research Project," Inter-American Policy Studies Occasional Papers, no. 4 (Austin, TX: Inter-American Policy Studies Program, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs: Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...lone survivor identified Peterson, a black ex-miner crippled by tuberculosis, as the assailant, but many in Birmingham—black and white—doubted that Peterson could have committed the crime. Just months after launching...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...empire abolished slavery. It seemed to be an era of emancipation. Matthew Karp's This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy joins a chorus of scholarship...
Bodies and Souls
...The Mississippi Delta is at the epicenter of these trends, and Jonestown is located in the heart of the Delta. Between the Yazoo and Mississippi Rivers, this town of 1,600...