Best Leah Thrasher Podcasts (2024)

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The Present and Future of Southern Labor: The UAW’s Historic Win at Volkswagen 1:14:58

1h ago1:14:58

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Earlier this year, workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted to join the UAW in a landslide. The Southern Labor Studies Association held our biannual meeting in Chattanooga last week, just as UAW Local 42 began negotiating its first contract. This panel, recorded live at the conference, is moderated by labor journalist Sarah J…

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Beyond Norma Rae 51:09

6M ago51:09

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Welcome to a new season of Working History! Series co-host Dave Anderson talks with Aimee Loiselle about her book Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working ClassBy Working History

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Southern Exposure at 50: Sue Thrasher, Bob Hall, and Leah Wise 1:11:24

11M ago1:11:24

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This week’s episode features a panel recorded live at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of Southern Exposure magazine, held in March at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill’s Wilson Library. The panel, which reflects on the founding of the Institute for Southern Studies and the creation of Southern Exposure, features Sue Thrasher, a co-f…

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Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama 57:10

11M ago57:10

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Jennifer Brooks, Professor of History at Auburn University, discusses her book Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama, beginning with the book's origin story and then explaining the significance of Chinese and European immigrants in the New South and their interactions with employers, unions, African-Americans, the region's rac…

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Working in the Magic City: Moral Economy in Early Twentieth-Century Miami 57:20

1y ago57:20

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Thomas Castillo discusses his book Working in the Magic City: Moral Economy in Early Twentieth-Century Miami, beginning with the book’s origin story, and then tracing Miami's working-class history from World War I to the mid-1930s.By Working History

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Episode 15 - Dustin Solomon 51:22

1+ y ago51:22

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On this episode, we talk to Dustin Solomon, owner of Mutiny FX, an Arkansas-based visual effects company that has been creating VFX work for over 12 years on shows with companies like Netflix, Disney+, and Universal. He is a widowed father of two and a small business owner, so he spends a good deal of time with one eye open, one eye closed, and fin…

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Episode 14 - J Haleem Washington 1:00:01

1+ y ago1:00:01

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On this episode, we talk to J Haleem Washington, author, business coach, and corporate trainer. He went from working for $8.00 an hour at the Hampton Inn to earning 6 figures as a Commercial Photographer in just a few years. He accomplished all this while being a convicted felon. While working for $8.00 an hour he developed his mantra #IWon’tStarve…

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Episode 13 - Dustin Williams 42:04

1+ y ago42:04

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On this episode, we talk to Dustin Williams, Owner, and Head Coach for Precision Fitness, Northwest Arkansas' premier group and personal training studio. Dustin attended one of the most prestigious boot camp training sessions in Las Vegas and has also trained with 4X Mr. Olympia, Jay Cutler. He has been studying functional neurology through Z-Healt…

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Episode 12 - Lori Carcich 51:23

1+ y ago51:23

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On this episode, we talk to Lori Carcich, Founder and CEO of Country Smooth Spirits. She’s America’s first female founder of a whisky company. She proudly serves as a Member of the Board of Advisors for CW.COM, LLC and The UCSB PaCE Extension, Women in Leadership Executive Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Lori has been engage…

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Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power 52:56

1+ y ago52:56

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Jefferson Cowie discusses his book Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power, beginning with the book’s origin story, and then tracing the use of "freedom" to dominate others in Barbour County, Alabama, from Indian Removal in the 1830s through the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960sFind information about the book at the publish…

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Episode 11 - Daniel Hintz 36:57

1+ y ago36:57

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On this episode, we talk to Daniel Hintz. He’s the Founder and Chief Experience Officer of Velocity Group, and co-owner of Bauhaus Biergarten in Springdale. He previously served as the Executive Director of both Downtown Bentonville, Inc., and Fayetteville Downtown Partners. Daniel brings with him a broad range of experience and knowledge, and he s…

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Labor Journalism, Farmworkers, and Reynolds Tobacco with Victoria Bouloubasis 36:43

1+ y ago36:43

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Journalist Victoria Bouloubasis discusses her career reporting on agricultural and food labor in North Carolina, her approach to labor journalism, and how she uses histories in her work. Show Notes:"A North Carolina Farmworker Was Accused of Abusing His Workers. Then Big Tobacco Backed His Election," by Ben Stockton and Victoria Bouloubasis, Mother…

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Episode 10 - Jessica G 45:42

1+ y ago45:42

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On this episode, we talk to Jessica G. She’s a woman on a mission. With an established career as a successful entrepreneur, she combines her talents of brand management and persuasive speaking to be a beacon of light, creating momentum for change. Her natural ability to raise the vibration of any room is felt through her illuminating sparkle, tenac…

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Episode 9 - Leah Thrasher 1:30:56

2y ago1:30:56

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On this episode, we talk to Leah Thrasher. She's a mother, entrepreneur, investor, coach, and author. We discuss taking a business from the bottom to the top, breaking away from traditions, and why you should completely fill your sandbag. Support the show You can support the show by going to: https://pointsoffailure.buzzsprout.com…

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Episode 8 - Ana Vasquez 48:28

2+ y ago48:28

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On this episode, we talk to Ana Vazquez. She's a former teacher turned real estate agent in Northwest Arkansas. We discuss overcoming setbacks, learning to delegate, and the joys of pozole at Christmas. Support the show You can support the show by going to: https://pointsoffailure.buzzsprout.comBy Steve Cauthren

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Episode 7 - Brandon Gore 1:34:08

2+ y ago1:34:08

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On this episode, we talk to Brandon Gore. He’s a concrete craftsman, furniture designer, rammed earth builder, teacher, and father. We discuss failures in design, the importance of integrity, and being a judge on a design/build competition TV show. Find Brandon’s work online at www.goredesignco.com, and Instagram at www.instagram.com/hardgoodsco Su…

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Episode 6 - Chef Erin Rowe 1:11:55

3y ago1:11:55

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On this episode, we talk to Chef Erin Rowe. She is the author of "An Ozark Culinary History," and the Founder of Ozark Culinary Tours, guiding people around the best food scenes of Northwest Arkansas' downtowns. We discuss globetrotting, employing yourself, and the difficulty of pancakes. Support the show You can support the show by going to: https…

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Episode 5 - Hadly's Last Day 18:24

3y ago18:24

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This episode is an emotional tribute to our sweet Hadly, to whom we recently said our painful goodbyes. Part sweet angel, part little monkey. All perfect little blessing. We loved her so much.. Now she is at rest, and forever in our hearts. Support the show You can support the show by going to: https://pointsoffailure.buzzsprout.com…

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Episode 4 - Glenn Sibley 38:56

3y ago38:56

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On this episode we talk with Glenn Sibley, General Manager of the Wellington in Springdale, Arkansas. Glenn has over 30 years experience and has established himself as a leader and mentor in the bar and restaurant industry, as well as his local community. We discuss fatherhood, mutual respect, and top-down cultural failure. Support the show You can…

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Episode 3 - Heather Fallen 36:48

3y ago36:48

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On this episode, we talk to Heather Fallen, Founder of Stage 28 Talent and Casting. She’s made a name for herself in the entertainment industry working as a model, a tour manager, and as an agent booking actors to work alongside stars like Ashley Judd. We discuss communication, mentors, and having a backup plan. Support the show You can support the…

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Episode 2 - Brian Sage 56:27

3y ago56:27

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On this episode, we talk to Brian Sage, founder and CEO of Sage Digital, a software agency that specializes in ecommerce, marketing, and fintech. He’s also had a lot of trial and error experience while wearing different hats at various startups and agencies—some successful and some not so much. He’s a big advocate for affirmative action in tech and…

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Episode 1 - Dr. Jeremiah Beene 1:47:58

3+ y ago1:47:58

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On this inaugural episode, we talk to Dr. Jeremiah Beene. He was in Counter-Intelligence in the Army, and has a Ph.D. in Psychology. We discuss several points of failure, including lack of values and the reality of toxic masculinity. Support the show You can support the show by going to: https://pointsoffailure.buzzsprout.com…

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Citizen and Other: Puerto Rican Farmworkers in the United States 25:17

4+ y ago25:17

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Ismael García Colón discusses his new book, Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire, Puerto Rican migrant farmworkers, and their labor experiences in the post-World War II United States.By Working History

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Labor, Capital, and Politics in the Industrial South 27:01

4+ y ago27:01

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Michael Goldfield discusses his new book, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s, union organization in the South's leading industrial sectors, and how contests between labor and capital in the New Deal-era South continue to shape American politics today.By Working History

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Race, Class, and Communism in the Jim Crow South 35:17

4+ y ago35:17

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Mary Stanton discusses her book, Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930-1950, New Deal-era political activism, and movements for racial, economic, and social justice in the Jim Crow South.By Working History

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Politics of the Pantry 37:51

4+ y ago37:51

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Southern Sisters and Social Justice in the Jim Crow South 37:43

4+ y ago37:43

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By Working History

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Making the Woman Worker 41:20

5y ago41:20

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Eileen Boris discusses her new book MAKING THE WOMAN WORKER: PRECARIOUS LABOR AND THE FIGHT FOR GLOBAL STANDARDS, the history of the ILO's labor protections for women, domestic and home workers in the Global North and Global South, and ongoing fights to recognize precarious labor from the care economy to the gig economy.…

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Race, Slavery, and Psychiatry 53:33

5y ago53:33

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Dr. Wendy Gonaver discusses her book, "The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840-1880," the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Virginia, and the roles that race, the institution of slavery, and slave labor played in the development of psychiatric diagnosis and care through the nineteenth century and beyond.…

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Reconciling a Slaveholding Past 33:51

5y ago33:51

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Jody Allen, Assistant Professor of History at the College of William and Mary and Director of The Lemon Project: A Journey of Reconciliation, discusses William and Mary's slaveholding past and the genesis, research, and ongoing community outreach of The Lemon Project.By Working History

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Beef: Exploitation, Innovation, and How Meat Changed America 36:01

5+ y ago36:01

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Joshua Specht discusses his new book, RED MEAT REPUBLIC, and how the history of beef production tells the story of broad changes in the American economy, society and political landscape during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.By Working History

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Appalachia: A Regional Reckoning 34:30

5+ y ago34:30

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Anthony Harkins (Western Kentucky University) and Meredith McCarroll (Bowdin College) discuss their edited volume, APPALACHIAN RECKONING: A REGION RESPONDS TO HILLBILLY ELEGY, the complexities of the region known as Appalachia, and challenging popular stereotypes of the region and the people who live there.…

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"You Can't Eat Coal": Women's Social Justice Activism in Appalachia 35:07

5+ y ago35:07

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Jessica Wilkerson, Assistant Professor of History and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, discusses her book, "To Live Here You Have to Fight," and the recent history of feminist social justice activism in Appalachia.By Working History

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Novelist Wiley Cash on “The Last Ballad” and the Loray Mill Strike 30:03

5+ y ago30:03

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Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Wiley Cash discusses his novel, "The Last Ballad," writing fiction inspired by the South, and exploring the complexities of southern class, race, and gender relations against the backdrop of the 1929 Loray Mill strike.By Working History

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Reconsidering Southern Labor History 22:38

6y ago22:38

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Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt discuss their new edited volume, Reconsidering Southern Labor History, the nexus of race, class and power in the history of labor in the South, and how a new generation of southern labor scholars are changing our understanding of labor's past, present and future in the region.…

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Slavery and Memory 46:02

6y ago46:02

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Blain Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle, Professors of History at California State University—Fresno, discuss their co-authored book, Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy, competing narratives about slavery in the South, and the fraught history of race, memory and memorialization in the region.…

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Revisioning the American Past though African American and Latinx History 24:33

6y ago24:33

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Paul Ortiz, Associate Professor and Director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida, discusses his most recent book, An African American and Latinx History of the United States, the myth of American exceptionalism, and globalizing America's past.By Working History

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Shaping a New Conservatism in the South 40:12

6+ y ago40:12

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Katherine Rye Jewell, Assistant Professor of History at Fitchburg State University, discusses her book, Dollars for Dixie, and the evolution of political and economic conservatism in the twentieth-century South.By Working History

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Murder, Race and (In)Justice 32:47

6+ y ago32:47

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Karen Cox, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, discusses her new book, Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South, and what one murder case in 1930s Mississippi reveals about race relations, criminal justice, and life in the Jim Crow South.By Working History

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"Hillbilly Hellraisers" and Rethinking the Roots of Populist Politics 38:07

6+ y ago38:07

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J. Blake Perkins, assistant professor of history at Williams Baptist College, discusses his new book, Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks, regional relations with the federal government, and the evolution of grassroots politics.By Working History

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Poor Whites in the Slave South 29:33

7y ago29:33

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Keri Leigh Merritt discusses her book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South, and intersections of race, class, politics, and slavery in the pre-Civil War South.By Working History

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The High Cost of Cheap Food 33:08

7y ago33:08

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Bryant Simon, Professor of History at Temple University, discusses his new book, The Hamlet Fire: A Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives, and the tragic consequences of the ethos of "cheap" for workers, communities, and the nation.By Working History

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A New Narrative for Labor in the 1970s (Labor Day Episode 2017) 40:58

7y ago40:58

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Lane Windham, Associate Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University, discusses her book, Knocking on Labor’s Door, and why the 1970s should be seen as more than a moment of decline for the U.S. labor movement.By Working History

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Preserving Southern Labor's Past 32:07

7y ago32:07

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Traci JoLeigh Drummond, archivist for the Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University in Atlanta, discusses the preservation of materials related to southern labor history, new collections open to researchers, digital access to archival sources, and what makes a collection of records "archive worthy."…

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LGBT Discrimination and Activism in the Southern Workplace 41:58

7+ y ago41:58

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Joshua Hollands, of the Institute of the Americas at University College London, discusses his award-winning essay, “There’s a Bigot in Your Biscuit’: Workplace Discrimination at Cracker Barrel, Civil Rights, and Corporate Activism in the Southern United States,” and the past and present of LGBT discrimination and activism in the southern workplace.…

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Southern Small Farmers Standing Their Ground 40:00

7+ y ago40:00

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Professor Adrienne Petty discusses her book, Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War, the black and white farmers in the South who were part of the "small farming class," and their evolving strategies for holding onto their land through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.…

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Freedom Struggles in the Post-Civil Rights Rural South 31:12

7+ y ago31:12

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Professor Greta de Jong of the University of Nevada, Reno, discusses her book, You Can't Eat Freedom, rural organizing, social justice movements, and the connected histories of the Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty in the US South.By Working History

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From Indentured Servant to Modern-Day Guestworker 39:27

7+ y ago39:27

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Professor Cindy Hahamovitch of the University of Georgia discusses her research connecting the global histories of 19th-century indentured servants and today's guestworkers.By Working History

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The Long History of Mexican Migration to the Deep South 36:05

8y ago36:05

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Professor Julie Weise of the University of Oregon discusses her book, Corazón de Dixie, the long history of Mexican migration to states in the Deep South, and the roots of anti-immigrant politics and policies in the region today.By Working History

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Race, Identity, and Memory 34:57

8y ago34:57

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Professor Blain Roberts of California State University, Fresno, talks about intersections of race, identity, and memory in the South in a wide-ranging discussion that starts in the segregated beauty parlors of the Jim Crow era and ends with remembrances of slavery in modern-day Charleston, South Carolina.…

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