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...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...violence in America. Map showing Salisbury, North Carolina, 2012. So many local or case studies of Jim Crow-era lynchings have been published during the past twenty years, that they now...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...But, no educational policy at any level today acknowledges America's large population of children in extreme poverty and the extraordinary challenges they face in education. It is time for a...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...possibly marching to auction, from William S. Dorr, Slave market of America, published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836. Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-19705. The...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...excellent Petrochemical America, depicts the grim outcomes of the collision between oil and gas extraction and Louisiana people.4Gwen Ottinger, "Peopling Petrochemical America: A Review," Southern Spaces, November 26, 2013, https://southernspaces.org/2013/petrochemical-america-petrochemical-addiction#ottinger....
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...post-Civil Rights, neoliberal America, could undermine the whole project. Finally, scholars are beginning to get over that reluctance. New work by Jennifer Thomson, Paul Sabin and Keith Woodhouse, for example,...
Encountering COVID
...fruits and vegetables that America eats. This area around Yuma is called "America's Salad Bowl." Our organization provides services to our population, including immigration, housing, parenting, chronic disease prevention, and...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...increasing rates of Latin American immigration to the Atlanta metropolitan area Part 3: Transnational migrant circuits between Atlanta and localities in Mexico and Central America Part 4: Situating Chamblee and Doraville as...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...across time and space.4For more on Haitian Marian devotion, see Terry Rey, Our Lady of Class Struggle: The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Haiti (Trenton: Africa World Press, 1999)....
At Sun Ra's Grave
...a brash of empty veins. Now only broadcast towers lance the night, their amber pulse the city's only torches, and below, where the terminal station blazed 10,000 lights in welcome,...