Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...of processed food that seems to grow its own trash, and Hushpuppy insists that you still have to "fix what you can." Still from Beasts of the Southern Wild, Twentieth...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...testified that Rolfs ordered him to say that "no peonage existed there" and that "I did so." Will Nanse reported that Harlan and Huggins removed workers who might attest to...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...recruitment efforts elsewhere—in Miami. A former CFO remembers that it was a television program that sparked the idea that would forever change the landscape of Mississippi poultry. He recalled: John...
A City Divided
...race riot, and residential proximity could have been understood by whites as increasing the likelihood of interactions between black males and white females—a relationship that whites feared. That said, it...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...of the Cherokees, Georgians registered for the October lotteries that would distribute their land to so-called fortunate drawers. Anticipation ran high. Georgia was the only state in the nation that...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...opportunities for the African American work force, both slave and free, which became enmeshed into a single, somewhat fluid system that operated on both sides of the river. Port cities,...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...central theme of Behind the White Picket Fence is that middle-class whites utilize many resources to maintain power while simultaneously extolling the virtues of their multiethnic environment. Deploying what Mayorga-Gallo terms a...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...From "the vanguard of the southern movement promoting proslavery ideology in the legal realm," Lumpkin and Cobb "legitimated the institution in Georgia so that the laws reflected the racial views...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...that is often referred to as a "tin." It is windowless, but has three doors. The front sports several faded, hand-painted signs. One describes the dress code by saying "not...
The Border South
...could be crossed and that enslaved people sought freedom on its other side. If enslaved people could cross the border to claim freedom, so too could free men move to...