Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...remain active in Mississippi.8Gloria Oladipo, “Mississippi Quits Child Food Program amid Republican ‘Welfare State’ Attack,” The Guardian, January 13, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/13/mississippi-child-school-food-program-welfare-state. Autonomy and/as Collard Greens: On Emancipatory Food Power The...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...Arlene Dávila and Augistín Laó-Montes, eds., Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001). Ana Ramos-Zayas examines how Puerto Rican enclaves in Chicago became racialized...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...because it was unusual to me. I'd never seen any place like it in Florida. In 2004 I started a new photographic project called Primitive Florida. I felt that I...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
..."Politicians to Eat 'Possum. The Supper at Newnan to Be a Unique Affair," The Morning News News (Savannah, GA), Dec. 28, 1897, 2, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063034/1897-12-28/ed-1/seq-2/. Located about forty miles southwest of...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...Eastern Shore," New York Evening Post, April 25, 1885 (quotation); Howard Douglas Dozier, A History of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920), 124-125;...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...new forms. We wanted to advance scholarship that used digital media as essential components. We also wanted to differentiate the purpose of this new publication from "Southern Studies" in general,...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...mills of the New South, male supervisors oversee the Margilan weave room, Uzbekistan, 2006. New South industrialization became the model for subsequent development as investment extended beyond the borders of...
Religion and the US South
...of new Presbyterian and Baptist congregations, as well as a new presence of Quakers, Lutherans, German Reformed Methodists, and pietistic Protestant sects. All of these new religious influences appealed to...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...John Frank and Rob Christensen, "Dome: In other news, NC Senate gives final approval to tax bill," Raleigh News and Observer, July 3, 2013, http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/07/03/3009073/dome-in-other-news-nc-senate-gives.html; John Frank, "Impact of Proposed...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...New Orleans, LA, November 20–24, 2002); Leon Fink, The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003); Jamie Winders,...