Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...a class of free rural cultivators out of slavery with relatively ambiguous land ownership rights. This book builds and expands on this work by focusing on the legal dynamics within...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...supported the placement of Native children into "white" households throughout the existing United States. By the first decades of the nineteenth century, a small group of American Indians in the...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...writing about the importance of the working class and the role of class in racial politics. Although entitled The South, Reed's book illuminates how he and others experienced several...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...black republic might hold for the nearly four million people held in chattel bondage in the United States. The contention that "the fear of a revolt—or revolution—being mounted by the...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...city in the United States. Popular publications lauded its economic resiliency; Forbes and Time named it the top city for small business and economic growth in 2011. In 2012, Austin experienced a 6.3 percent growth in its...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...the job, not the clock. At the semester's conclusion, the class had recorded six hours of interview footage. A final class project tasked students with identifying themes from the collective...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...Newlin sees this aspect of the humor as an Addisonian attack on foppery and the corruption of the upper class. There certainly is a class element in Longstreet's attacks on...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...(nee Freeman) Tinney. Their son John (born 1859) seems to have been the classmate of Dennis Tinney at Howard. Their daughter, Emma Jane Tinney (born about 1861) married Robert Edward...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...as an undergraduate at Georgia State University. In a business writing class, we were generating mock resumes, cover letters, inter-office memos—that sort of thing. Our instructor, graduate student Brennan Collins,...
The Carolina Piedmont
...profit. A seemingly bottomless pool of displaced tenant and sharecropper families provided generations of cheap, exploitable labor upon which the new industrial class built its wealth and political power. The...