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Murder, Race and (In)Justice

Karen Cox, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, discusses her new book, Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South, and what one murder case in 1930s Mississippi reveals about race relations, criminal justice, and life in the Jim Crow South.

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  Fall for Liberation with Maria Harmon

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  Organizing Faculty in Florida with Paul Ortiz

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  The Present and Future of Southern Labor: The UAW’s Historic Win at Volksw…

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  Beyond Norma Rae

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  Southern Exposure at 50: Sue Thrasher, Bob Hall, and Leah Wise

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  Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama

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  Working in the Magic City: Moral Economy in Early Twentieth-Century Miami

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  Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

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  Labor Journalism, Farmworkers, and Reynolds Tobacco with Victoria Boulouba…

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  Citizen and Other: Puerto Rican Farmworkers in the United States

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  Labor, Capital, and Politics in the Industrial South

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  Race, Class, and Communism in the Jim Crow South

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  Politics of the Pantry

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  Southern Sisters and Social Justice in the Jim Crow South

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  Making the Woman Worker

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  Race, Slavery, and Psychiatry