The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...York: Oxford University Press, 2008); Charles Lane, The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, The Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2008); and...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...half-mile radius of the blast. The cause of the blast is still unknown. The plant, which is owned by Adair Inc.'s West Fertilizer Company, produced anhydrous ammonia (a liquid crop...
The Bulletin—August 9, 2012
...after failing to reach an agreement with the company on a new collective bargaining contract. Specifically, the workers are unwilling to accept the reduction of health care benefits proposed by...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...After buying rural routes from the Kerrville Bus Company in 2012, the discount travel company Megabus recently discontinued service to small towns in Texas' Southwest Area Regional Transit District, leaving...
A Mess of Poke
...not quite Euell Gibbons and Stalking the Wild Asparagus, either. Poke sallet greens were once commercially canned and marketed. The Allen Canning Company of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, paid gatherers by...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...It coated everything. The trees around us looked like they'd been sprinkled with confectioner's sugar." "So people left," Lydde said. "Bought out by the coal company. Everyone except John. He...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...when he founded his company at the height of Jim Crow restrictions in 1952. The 8,761-square-foot residence on 714 Shorter Terrace signals the hard work and commitment of businessmen and...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...of Walker's work?39 For a full list of sponsors, including Domino Foods, see "Kara Walker: Project Support," Creative Time, accessed June 30, 2014, http://creativetime.org/projects/karawalker/project-support/. Why did a company that continues...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...years ago when their employer, the Walter Energy Company, went bankrupt. The new owner, Warrior Met, refuses to negotiate restoration of pay, overtime, and holidays now that the old contract...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Greenwood Food Blockade and the Lewis Grocer Company’s campaign for a federal food stamps program in Mississippi. State and local government, as well as private corporations, wielded food power against...