A Short Q&A with Matt Hild, co-editor of Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power Today’s interview is with Matthew Hild, a Lecturer at Georgia Tech. 1. Matt, tell me about the Introduction and Conclusion to RSLH. In the introduction, we set out to provide a general framework for the topics discussed in […]
A Short Q&A with the Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power Contributors Today’s interview is with Joseph M. Thompson, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Virginia. 1. Tell us a little about your essay, “Pens, Planes, and Politics: How Race and Labor Practices Shaped Postwar Atlanta”? My chapter compares the history of labor organizing at the […]
A Short Q&A with the Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power Contributors Today’s interview is with Erin L. Conlin, Assistant Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Tell us about your essay, “African American and Latino Workers in the Age of Industrial Agriculture.” It is a case study using oral histories and archival […]
A Short Q&A with the Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power Contributors Today’s interview is with T.R.C. (Bob) Hutton, Senior Lecturer of History and American Studies at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. Tell us about your essay, “The Appalachian ‘Gunmen of Capitalism.’” Historians and social scientists have, for quite some […]
Interview is with Brett J. Derbes, a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Auburn University. Brett works for the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) in Austin, Texas, as Managing Editor of the Handbook of Texas. Contributor:Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power Tell us a about your essay, “Origins of the Prison Industrial Complex: […]
Interview is with Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Lecturer and Coordinator of Public History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Contributor: Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power Was there a specific motive to write, “‘Vagrant Negroes’: The Policing of Labor and Mobility in the Upper South in the Early Republic.” ? Since the colonial era, the […]
Book Signing: Masterless Men
Date and Time of appearance TBA 2018 Decatur Book Festival