Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...at the crossroads of the railroad and U.S. 11, just off the highway, a place where the growing number of mexicano workers can send envios of money home. I grew...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
..."DDT," Time, June 12, 1944; "Doubts DDT Caused Bay Fish Deaths," Washington Post, August 23, 1945, 3. In Plyler and Colson's home state, local papers echoed the message, calling DDT...
Racial breakdown of the population of the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
...57.10 11,270 39.91 Early 6,212 50.28 5,947 48.14 Harris 18,584 78.43 4,614 19.47 Marion 4,347 60.85 2,434 34.07 Muscogee 93,936 50.42 81,488 43.74 Quitman 1,354 52.12 1,218 46.88 Randolph 3,034...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...newsprint, Lufkin, Texas, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, LC-USW36-836. Arthur Rothstein, Community clothesline, FSA camp, Robstown, Texas, 1942. Library of Congress Prints and...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...Amberg. Grapevine, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Grapevine, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Chestnut tree stump on the I-26 right-of-way, Sprinkle Creek,...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
Every week Miz Nell Weaver had us memorize a Bible verse, one for each letter of the alphabet. This was in the fourth grade, Centreville, Alabama, 1956. One by one,...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...is natural to any one thinking that it is pleasant to be one.... Once in talking and saying that in America the best material is used in the cheapest things...