Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...distribution and have generated wealth. But the consequences of those decisions, and others, especially those connected with "selling" Memphis by offering typically southern industrial recruitment incentives, marketing cheap land and...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...Choice Bills,” Reason, Jan. 22, 2023, https://reason.com/2023/01/22/virginia-is-considering-4-different-school-choice-bills/; Megan Pauly, “Wealthiest Virginians are benefiting most from contributions to school voucher program,” VPM News, July 11, 2022, https://www.vpm.org/news/2022-07-11/wealthiest-virginians-are-benefiting-most-from-contributions-to-school-voucher/. In Mississippi, once the...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...(New York: Forest and Stream Publishing Company, April 1899), 111, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082123633&view=1up&seq=127&skin=2021. Enterprising farmers found commercial potential in raising opossums. Their efforts joined other uncommon industries labeled as "freak farms."50For a...
Editors
...Alabama, Klibanoff joined Emory in 2010 at the close of a thirty-six-year career in newspaper journalism in Mississippi and at The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
Introduction Map of Yoshio Koya's destinations, 2011. From February to April 1950, the head of the Institute of Public Health in Tokyo, Yoshio Koya, was sent by the US-led Occupation...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
Cars lined up on US Route 11, waiting to enter. Family Drive-In, Stephens City, VA, 2008. Introduction 2008 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the drive-in theater. In 1932, Richard Hollingshead,...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...Jenkins, "The Empathy of 'S-Town' Doesn't Extend to Black People," BuzzFeed News, April 21, 2017, https://www.buzzfeed.com/wesleyjenkins/the-empathy-of-s-town-doesnt-extend-to-black-people?utm_term=.fmJA3Xxxe#.jtpwXLBBz; Maaza Mengiste, "How 'S-Town' Fails Black Listeners," Rolling Stone, April 13, 2017, https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/how-s-town-fails-black-listeners-w476524. He...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...founded a fictional group, "Friends of Salt Creek," built a website, and started exploring with my students.2For a timeline see Friends of Salt Creek, Accessed April 11, 2023, https://friendsofsaltcreek.org/; for...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Against Sanderson Farms Far From Over," Philadelphia Tribune, September 18, 1981, 11; "Little Town of Laurel Hosts Historic March," New Journal and Guide (Norfolk, Virginia), June 11, 1980, 9; Colman...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
Review Christopher J. Manganiello opens Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region with a discussion of the drought that hit the...