No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...people of color, and women. The extreme inequality in these states reflects a white southern legacy of a government/elite/corporate alliance that promoted slavery and the plantation system; post-slavery agricultural peonage;...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...coffee plantations. Fueled by the coffee boom, highland migration soared and for the first time the central mountainous region displaced the coast as the most densely populated area of Puerto...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...of acres of Central Appalachian forests and streams through MTR. Low-sulfur coal was needed to meet the more stringent emission requirements, and the Central Appalachian coalfields would find the extraction...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...admirable policy of not having students work for free. Luckily, it didn't take long for then-managing-editor Sarah Toton to find the needed funding to add another position. I joined Southern...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...about the status of freed African Americans in postbellum Virginia. This moment coincided with the emergence of a mental health reform movement across the US. Dr. Kirkbride was assisted in...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
"TWUA" cheerleaders featured in Gloria Steinem's PBS series Woman Alive!, 1973–1974. In the spring of 1974, a dozen white and African American women and their daughters gathered outside the office...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Pride Houston. There were two queer bookstores, a free monthly magazine, and several free weekly papers. Soon, I was working for one of those papers, distributing copies all over the...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...Ohio River many of these African people could not produce their freedom papers—or let's say that they were undocumented—and thus, they were rounded up as illegals in the North, were...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...ferries, etc. delineated correctly and faithfully." The maps were atlases of opportunity for speculators and entrepreneurs. Enterprising Georgians promoted themselves as land appraisers, guides, innkeepers, attorneys, and merchandizers in the...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...honor to be called 'Negroes'." From the use of "colored" and "Negro" to "African American," "Black," and "Bi-racial," the problem of naming and being named has reflected the struggles of...