Putting Workers on the Map: Agricultural Atlases and the Willamette Valley's Hidden Labor Landscape.
Analyzing Oregon agricultural atlases from 1878 to 1958, I show that, despite these texts' projection of impartial authority, they function to extend a discourse of natural bounty in which agricultural abundance is linked to inherent characteristics of the land, hiding the role of racialized and dis...
| Publicado en: | Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 409 - 438 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Winter2020
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