DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...newspaper clipping, ca. 1947. Scan by Flickr user Ted Kerwin. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. In the mid-1940s, Dottie Colson and her blacksmith husband Henry, along with daughters Hazel...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...mills of the New South, male supervisors oversee the Margilan weave room, Uzbekistan, 2006. New South industrialization became the model for subsequent development as investment extended beyond the borders of...
Sunset Colonies: Photographs by Diego Alejandro Waisman
...Diego Alejandro Waisman. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2024.) Reprinted with permission of University Press of Florida. In another, the new building remains to the far right edge, rising up...
Looking Back to Move Forward
...Noir' (The Black Code)." National Park Service, (2024, October 2). https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/transcription-of-the-code-noir-the-black-code.htm It was law, but it was also permission. It authorized a way of being that extended beyond itself, embedding...
How the Court Killed the Voting Rights Act
...the Partisan Transformation of the American South (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012); Seth C. McKee, “Party Affiliation in the Southern Electorate,” Political Research Quarterly, 2024, Vol. 77(1) 432–446. Race...
The Nature of Rights
...glacial moulins or crevasses, and the “starless” or subterranean rivers along the Italy-Slovenia border.[1] The new book evokes similar wonder for the natural world, while even more pointedly identifying the...
Genres of Southern Literature
...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...New Orleans, LA, November 20–24, 2002); Leon Fink, The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003); Jamie Winders,...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...corn, soybeans, and cotton thrive. The Mississippi River and all its branches flow over the boundaries of its own banks, flooding the soil and adding new sediment, giving it new...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...that some sought escape via "life in a big city . . . Someplace like San Francisco. Or New York. Or New Orleans."13Delery-Edwards, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson, 10. However,...