Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...1940s, Gainey grew up poor and gay in rural South Carolina and attended Clemson University, where he studied ornamental horticulture. Using vernacular plants in classical garden design, he became a...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...on Fridays, our name would be called and we would go into the only privacy there was, the cloakroom at the back of the classroom, and there in the narrow...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...other reasons, too. A few free Black people could even conduct business at the establishments there, but almost every business owner in the town held a few people in bondage. James...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...and arrogant statement of inherited privilege. Instead, I will conclude by referring to a much more polite intervention that nevertheless re-states the dominant upper-caste and upper-class belief in the appropriate...
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...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...determined by the seating arrangement. It goes in this way: pastor, preachers, licensed minister, deacons, and the class leaders. The descriptions of the positions begin with the class leaders and...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...coast, and across the Gulf of Mexico from Mississippi to New Orleans. Blacks regarded these communities as vital sites of leisure, relief from wage labor, business opportunities, and—even if too...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...marginalized groups include not only land struggles by formerly enslaved people and by Native Americans, but also agricultural movements and the class-based mobilizations of populist agrarians. Chicano farmworker fights against...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...into Action (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2000): 261. In the pandemic's wake, a much stronger commitment to organizational learning by CDC will provide the quickest and most effective...