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... This chapter discusses terror, hope, and changing identities as they are reshaped by the changing physical, economic, and political geography of the coastal Carolinas, and as they organized and reorganized electoral struggles in the early years of the civil rights movements. swamps...

... This chapter examines location and locale on the Pacific Coast. It elaborates on the concept of the aquatic space and its manifestation in the physical environment of a rain forest crisscrossed by intricate river networks and mangrove swamps and in the spatialized social relationships along...

.... swamps deference terror civil rights voting Starting with the deeply problematic concept of “culture,” this chapter explores the mechanical cotton picker, NAFTA, the changing production of the victims of the agrarian South’s labor demands, and the muscle put on voting. On this basis the legal...

... are described, focusing on swamps and the changing availability of drinkable water. Current African American control of this formerly majority-White town is described in the context of a severely declining local economy. The concluding section looks at very different Native American and African American...

... This chapter develops the concept of the “aquatic space” as an assemblage of always shifting relations in which everyday life patterns in Colombia’s Pacific Coast region are deeply entangled with a range of aquatic elements, such as intricate river networks, streams, mangrove swamps, high levels...