Yesterday, I was part of a Zoom seminar with the London Group of Historical Geographers and heard a discussion about Mona Domosh's new book Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South, published by the University of Georgia Press. Panelists included the author, Joan P. and Edward J. Foley Jr. 1933 Professor of Geography at Dartmouth, as well as:
Archie Davies (Queen Mary University of London)
LaToya E. Eaves (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Morgan P. Vickers (University of California, Berkeley)
The book is a compelling foray into archives and well worth a read by archivists. Domosh talked about her archival sleuthing and also discussed her concerns about being an established white woman scholar writing about "how Black employees of the cooperative extension service of the USDA practiced rural improvement in ways that sustained southern Black farmers' lives and livelihoods in the early decades of the twentieth century, resisting the white supremacy that characterized the Jim Crow South".
More significant here, perhaps, is that Domosh, well aware of the fragile existence of some archives, has signed over all royalties from the book to the Tuskegee Archives. Good on her!
I think it worth spreading the word.
Cheers,
Joan
Joan M. Schwartz, PhD, FRSC, FRCGS, FSAA, FACA
Professor Emerita, History of Photography & 19thC Visual Culture
Department of Art History and Art Conservation
( x Department of Geography and Planning)
Ontario Hall 318C
67 University Avenue
Queen's University
KINGSTON, ON K7L 3N6
Adjunct Research Professor
Department of History
Carleton University, Ottawa
Leverhulme Visiting Professor
Centre for the GeoHumanities
Royal Holloway, University of London
Fall 2022 / Spring 2023
Queen's University sits on the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee & Anishinaabe peoples