A statement from the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, June 5, 2020: We are not quite halfway through 2020, and already it is a year marked by a global pandemic with no clear end in sight, widespread economic instability, and mass uprisings in response to the death of yet another black person at …
Written by Rebecca Lauck Cleary You might not immediately think of potatoes when you think of Florida, but it turns out the crop has deep roots there. On June 4, Carlynn Crosby successfully defended her thesis “Potato Capital: Agriculture, Labor, and the (Un)Making of Hastings,” which shed light on the labor practices of Florida potato …