Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...compete for the "Golden Chicken" trophy.4Chris Allen Baker, "Battle for Golden Chicken Enters Its 80th Year," Scott County Times, October 21, 2009, accessed November 6, 2013, http://www.sctonline.net/news/article_2e8efddf-5c83-5935-9ea3-eac434b9b7cf.html. Typical for poultry-producing...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...early 1980s, day laborers had little political power. By 2005, even though day laborers had found the attention of attorneys, legislators, activists, and workplace justice advocates, effective solutions for their...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
..."At Sun Ra's Grave," and "Walt Whitman in Alabama." About Jake Adam York Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father and his mother, a history teacher, Jake...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
Anniversary
Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...significance to the viewer, while the cumulative power of thousands of these markings communicated the enormous scale of what had occurred. In addition to wind and water damage, infrastructure destruction,...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
Introduction Peggy Winn had every reason to believe freedom meant stability for her family, stability in a new place. Under slavery, she had lived in the southern section of Albemarle...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...interest of exchanging ideas and advancing trade.4Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, "2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," US Department of State, accessed December 16, 2011, http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/index.htm. Rather...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...lines found elsewhere in their repertoire as well as in the broader spiritual tradition. The lines "Ole Satan mad and I am glad" and "Satan thought he had me fast,"...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...loss. They repeatedly noted Cherokees had been divested of fields, homes, ferries, mills, livestock, money—everything they had built or cultivated. Dispossessions had begun soon after the extension of Georgia laws...