Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...that white workers increasingly found new opportunities elsewhere, chicken plants faced an ever mounting need for cheap labor. Mississipi's method, pamphlet, n.d. Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...and similarly split districts in surrounding Davidson County, under Superintendent J. E. Moss. In round numbers, there were about ten thousand black students and twenty thousand whites in the city...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...reality that inspired Behn's fiction."1See Giovanna Covi, "Oroonoko's Genderization and Creolization: Joan Anim-Addo's Imoinda," in Revisiting and Reinterpreting Aphra Behn: Proceedings of the Aphra Behn Europe Seminar ESSE Conference (Entrevaux, France: Bilingua...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...given cooperation" and subpoenaed all of the reporters at all newspapers in Danville. Washington Post, August 6, 1963. Recently, the Lexington Herald Leader in Kentucky has issued an apology for...
Religion and the US South
...were from the Iberian Peninsula, with those from central Europe coming in larger numbers after 1840. They embraced the religious freedom that the nation offered, as well as its economic...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...Industrial Canal before being stopped by trees. © Brian Gauvin. In the five years since August 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc along the entire Gulf Coast and the...
Palomares Bajo
...suggesting the US government may renege on future obligations. Combining contemporary images from Spain with a critique of key English-language primary and secondary sources, "Palomares Bajo" examines the southern European/American...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...in May 1970, and first published in the Ladder 11/12 (August/September 1970). Charis's owners, as we will see, welcomed this type of involvement. Over time the store itself, founded as...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...tip of metropolitan Atlanta. Passing time waiting for work. Canton, Georgia. Photo by Terry Easton, August 2003. If Francisco Castillo is unable to find his uncle in Chamblee, he may...