Collard greens connect medieval foodways, plant migration, survival, enslavement, adaptation, and Southern food culture. 🥬
A familiar dish carries centuries of labor, movement, memory, and reinvention.
#Brewminate #FoodHistory #SouthernHistory #MedievalHistory
https://brewminate.com/collard-greens-medieval-foodways-american-south/
This is the BEST documentary I have seen on the myth of modern-day "Southern charm" - angry old white people struggling to pay for and maintain massive crumbling houses by selling a story.
They are full of resentment to anyone interested in the truth.
Producing this documentary with no narrator and letting people's words stand on their own was very powerful. I grew up with people like this and they radicalized me.
"Long was influential in getting Roosevelt the presidential nomination in 1932, but when Roosevelt strayed from his promises to the ‘forgotten man’, he raised hell. [...] Though he was frequently reminded that it was not a junior senator’s place to rock the boat, he paid no attention."
Jefferson Cowie reviews #ThomasEPatterson's #AmericanPopulist: #HueyLong of #Louisiana
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n05/jefferson-cowie/that-damn-smooth-stuff
#HueyPLong #UShistory #AmericanHistory #SouthernHistory #populism #TheKingfish #books @bookstodon
#ScholarsCircle author interviews
⦁ #DerekBlack, author of #DangerousLearning: The South's Long War On #BlackLiteracy
⦁ #AshleyFarmer, author of #RemakingBlackPower: How #BlackWomen Transformed an Era
#BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #CivilRights #BlackLiberation #UShistory #contemporaryHistory #BlackStudies #WomensStudies #SouthernHistory #books @histodons @bookstodon
We honor Black History Month. The South outlawed black literacy all the way until the Civil War. What was this war on black literacy and how did educators resist this law? [ dur: 32mins. ] Derek Black is professor of law in the Ernest F. Hollings chair in constitutional law at the University of
I'm going to say something controversial - I don't think the US government should own slaves anymore! More than 150 years after the Civil War?!
#fyp #letsmakethempay #usa🇺🇸 #eattherich #fyparty #educational #history #slavery #prison #prisonlaborisslavery #prisonindustrialcomplex #blackhistory #southernhistory
Why Slavery is Still 100% Legal in the United States
This article on the Southern Tenant Farmers Union provides helpful background information for making sense of the image:
#SouthernTenantFarmersUnion #Arkansas #LaborHistory #SouthernHistory #RuralHistory #USHistory #STFU
The Southern Tenant Farmers Union was founded on the principle of interracial organizing. It challenged the Southern landowning class and the Jim Crow white supremacist order, leaving a proud legacy for both the labor movement and the civil rights movement.
"Huey comes to power running against the big corporations. He comes to power working to smash Standard Oil [..] They try to impeach him, they almost do impeach him in his first year as Governor..."
The Life and Times of #HueyPLong
with #RobertMann, author of #KingfishU: #HueyLong and #LSU
#TheKingfish #Louisiana #UShistory #AmericanHistory #SouthernHistory #populism #USpol #books
#Kingfish / #RandyNewman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riOxEDVfkt8
REVIEW: Kym Register + Meltdown Rodeo employ Southern rock to interrogate the South's legacy of white supremacy -- and to champion its resiliency. With heavy grooves and radical politics, Register and Meltdown Rodeo resist tired stereotypes and forge a path to solidarity.
https://rainbowrodeomag.com/review-kym-register-meltdown-rodeo/
#QueerCountry #Americana #IBelieveInABettersouth #SouthernHistory #AmericanSouth #IndieRock #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusic #TransMusic
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