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... and Sexual Exploitation in Eugene D. Genovese’s Plantation South Diane Miller Sommerville Like most eager graduate students on the job market, I vastly overprepared for my AHA interviews, which, thankfully, now seem like a lifetime ago. One...

...Kerri K. Greenidge Abstract This article argues that during the first two decades of the twentieth century, William Monroe Trotter’s Boston Guardian challenged “post-truth” politics at the heart of America’s exploitative racial project both at home and abroad. Trotter’s reinvigorated Black radical...

... the masters’ expectations for care in illness and old age with the slaves’ and former slaves’ expectations for compensation for their work and dedication. Following these uneven relationships of interdependence and exploitation as they developed over time, the article suggests a reassessment of the role...

...Cathal Smith Abstract Commodity frontiers are transnational zones of ecological exploitation that have provided agricultural products and raw materials for international markets since the early modern era. As such, commodity frontiers have played a crucial role in the expansion and development...

... and 1978. The article begins by discussing the theory undergirding the carceral warfare project, a reactionary idea known as “the issue exploitation thesis.” Starting in 1970, seasoned cold warriors renovated their long-standing arguments against communism for application against imprisoned Black...

... and privatization. These distinct but interrelated processes spoke to the US military’s complicity in the exploitation of workers in the pursuit of cost savings. Further, they ultimately led to the US military’s embrace of containerization. Though the negative impact for workers was abundantly clear even...

... a revolutionary message against imperial and oligarchic domination while drawing rural populations into more exploitative social relations. The same social and economic reforms meant to benefit thousands of campesinos through access to land facilitated an unprecedented scenario of rural and agrarian capitalism...

... that photography has been central to both the expropriation and exploitation of labor and to the artistic critique of these practices. We argue that photography documents and artistically refigures the various things—nature, work, and caring communities—that capitalism needs to continue generating surpluses...

... by enabling workers’ agency and challenges to regimes that exploit and expropriate their labor. Recently, US institutions and ex-braceros have recirculated Nadel’s images as they grapple with the program’s legacy. 71 Nadel’s documentary ethos reverberates in the work of photographers like Philip...

..., exploited, or protected. Photography was a mode of representation that enabled viewers to envision a place where commerce, industry, and art would come together in a nation-building project. For Foster, the irony of Temagami’s emerging mythology as a wilderness retreat would have been apparent, a tension...

...’ worldview and traditional knowledge or the connection between the exploitation of feminine bodies and extractivism. Their direct engagement and collaboration with Indigenous communities that resist extractivism visibilizes their agency and active contribution to radical transformation and ecological change...

... of “creative capitalism,” “creative cities,” and the “creative economy,” as well as the stark realities of precariousness and self-exploitation that animate labor today. Not only is the derivative the emblematic technology of a financial system based on the quasi-scientific management of risk, it also names...

... oriented around the family. Yet Reitman's use of actual unemployed people to articulate these family values partakes in a filming practice that forces these workers to perform a kind of emotional labor that the film itself identifies as exploitative and alienating. © 2014 by MARHO: The Radical Historians...

... traditional social order and to ensnare poor Southerners into an exploitive capitalist system. Others have argued that the attack on the range was merely a rationalization of an inefficient land-use system inherited from pre–Civil War society. This article argues that Southerners understood and debated both...

... of the Global North another means to exploit the Global South; and they have sometimes created opportunities for a climate change subaltern to leverage power against those nations who have dominated climate change policy. MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2010 interventions Swapping...

.... For their decisions to publish these photographs, newspaper editors nationwide faced harsh charges of exploitation and spectacle from readers who implied that the photographs stripped the subjects of their dignity. Beginning September 13, most newspapers openly and apologetically self-censored photographs...

...Ted Steinberg Is it possible for one of the most dynamic and exploitative social systems in the history of the world to stave off global warming, massive habitat destruction, and the vast changes in the earth's nitrogen cycle? This essay will examine the origins of green liberalism —the idea...

...Theresa Runstedtler This article examines the various debates surrounding the exploits of African American boxers in France during the early 1900s as a window into the transnational struggle over the terms of race and modernity. Because of the pervasive racial segregation in U.S. boxing, black...

... the enemy's individual character,” because it is “easier to change one's views than one's face.” This essay charts portrait photography's exploitation as evidentiary support for nineteenth-century physiognomic theory and examines a resurgent interest in this outmoded “pseudoscience” in 1920s Germany. My...

... that of the dominant classes to the subordinate ones often engaged in acts of resistance. While written sources echoed the potent sonic expressions of challenge and discontent that originated in a vibrant oral political culture, at the same time they exploited the ephemerality of sound in contrast to the written word...