Genealogies of Race, Gender, and Place

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ID3775253
AuthorsMona Domosh (Dartmouth College, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume107
Issue3
Pages765-778
Publication date2017-05-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnals of the American Association of Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2469-4452 • E-ISSN: 2469-4460
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/24694452.2017.1282269
OpenAlexW2596802265
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited55

Through a case study of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's interventions into the lives of sharecroppers and tenant farmers in early twentieth-century Alabama, I show how gendered and racialized norms of family and family life were used to keep African American farmers tied to the land, thus uncovering a relatively unexamined geography of containment. At stake for the U.S. government, local and regional leaders, and cotton plantation owners were the extremely large profits generated by dominance of the global cotton market, profits made possible only from the labor of indebted African American sharecroppers and tenant farmers. I document, in other words, how a new technology of racial governance, of keeping people in place, was developed and articulated to maintain U.S. economic power. By doing so, I highlight the importance of understanding the interrelated historical geographies of race, gender, and place in the United States, thus demonstrating the contemporary significance of a critical historical geography

Capitalism · Corporate governance · Dominance (genetics) · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Inequality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Race (biology) · Sociology · American History and Culture · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Race, History, and American Society

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