References
- American Farm Bureau Federation. 2017. H-2A program use continues to rise. Accessed July 8, 2023. https://www.fb.org/market-intel/h-2a-program-use-continues-to-rise.
- Barthes, R. 1972. Mythologies, trans. A. Lavers. New York: Hill and Wang.
- Black, G. 2012. Report on Agriculture Labor as Required by House Bill 87. January. Georgia Department of Agriculture.
- Blackmon, D. A. 2009. Slavery by another name: The re-enslavement of black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. New York: Anchor.
- Bledsoe, A., and W. J. Wright. 2019. The anti-Blackness of global capital. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 37 (1):8–26.
- Brahinsky, R., J. Sasser, and L. A. Minkoff‐Zern. 2014. Race, space, and nature: An introduction and critique. Antipode 46 (5):1135–52. doi: 10.1111/anti.12109.
- Chamerovzow, L. A., ed. [1855] 2001. Slave life in Georgia: A narrative of the life, sufferings, and escape of John Brown, a fugitive slave, now in England. London.
- Daniel, P. 1972. The shadow of slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901–1969. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.
- Davis, M. 1999. Ecology of fear. New York: Vintage.
- Du Bois, W. E. B. [1903] 2015. The souls of Black folk. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
- Du Bois, W. E. B. [1935] 1998. Black reconstruction in America 1860–1880. New York: The Free Press.
- Editorial: Colquitt County needs H-2A program. 2019. The Moultrie Observer, November 3. https://www.moultrieobserver.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-colquitt-county- needs-h-2a-program/article_ac5289d8-fcd9-11e9-907c-cbae45d62f51.html.
- Fleischer, N. L., H. M. Tiesman, J. Sumitani, T. Mize, K. K. Amarnath, A. R. Bayakly, and M. W. Murphy. 2013. Public health impact of heat-related illness among migrant farmworkers. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 44 (3):199–206. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2012.10.020.
- Flores, L. A. 2013. A town full of dead Mexicans: The Salinas Valley Bracero tragedy of 1963, the end of the Bracero program, and the evolution of California’s Chicano movement. Western Historical Quarterly 44 (2):124–43.
- Foley, B. 2014. Jean Toomer: Race, repression, and revolution. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.
- Freshour, C., and B. Williams. 2020. Abolition in the time of COVID-19. Antipode Online 9. Accessed July 8, 2023. https://antipodeonline.org/2020/04/09/abolition-in-the-time-of-covid-19/.
- Georgia Department of Corrections. 2020. Fact sheet: GCI Industries. Accessed May 25, 2021. http://www.dcor.state.ga.us/sites/default/files/GA%20Correctional%20Industries_1.pdf.
- Getz, C., S. Brown, and A. Shreck. 2008. Class politics and agricultural exceptionalism in California’s organic agriculture movement. Politics & Society 36 (4):478–507. doi: 10.1177/0032329208324709.
- Gilmore, R. W. 2017. Abolition geography and the problem of innocence. In Futures of Black radicalism, ed. G. T. Johnson and A. Lubin, 225–40. London: Verso.
- Gubernot, D. M., G. B. Anderson, and K. L. Hunting. 2014. The epidemiology of occupational heat exposure in the United States: A review of the literature and assessment of research needs in a changing climate. International Journal of Biometeorology 58 (8):1779–88. doi: 10.1007/s00484-013-0752-x.
- Hahamovitch, C. 1997. The fruits of their labor: Atlantic coast farmworkers and the making of migrant poverty, 1870–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
- Harris, C. I. 1993. Whiteness as property. Harvard Law Review 106 (8):1707–91. doi: 10.2307/1341787.
- Henderson, G. 1999. California and the fictions of capital. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
- Hofstadter, R. 1956. The myth of the happy yeoman. American Heritage 7 (3):1–6.
- Holmes, S. 2013. Fresh fruit, broken bodies: Migrant farmworkers in the United States. Vol. 27. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Homeland Security Department. 2020. Temporary changes to requirements affecting H-2A nonimmigrants due to the Covid-19 national emergency: Extension of certain flexibilities. Federal Register, 85 FR 82291: 82291-82299. W. Pechin, corner of Water & Gay-Street.
- Jefferson, T. 1785. Notes on the state of Virginia. Paris:
- Keegan, C. 2021. Unmaking the myth of agricultural exceptionalism: Racial capitalism, H-2A labor, and the “nature” of agriculture in Georgia’s farm labor system. PhD diss., University of Georgia.
- Keegan, C. 2022. Essential agriculture, sacrificial labor, and the COVID-19 pandemic in the US South. Journal of Agrarian Change 23 (3):611–21. doi: 10.1111/joac.12522.
- Kirby, J. T. 2014. Plantations. In The new encyclopedia of southern culture: Vol. 11. Agriculture and industry, ed. M. Walker and J. C. Cobb, 102–05. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
- Klinenberg, E. 2015. Heat wave: A social autopsy of disaster in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Krall, L. 2002. Thomas Jefferson’s agrarian vision and the changing nature of property. Journal of Economic Issues 36 (1):131–50. doi: 10.1080/00213624.2002.11506446.
- Kramer, K. 2018. Climate change is worsening extreme heat: Is OSHA doing enough to protect farm workers? Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy, October 11. Accessed July 8, 2023. https://www.iatp.org/blog/osha-doing-enough-protect-farm-workers.
- Kupperman, K. O. 1984. Fear of hot climates in the Anglo-American colonial experience. The William and Mary Quarterly 41 (2):213–40. doi: 10.2307/1919050.
- Lam, M., J. Krenz, P. Palmández, M. Negrete, M. Perla, H. Murphy-Robinson, and J. T. Spector. 2013. Identification of barriers to the prevention and treatment of heat-related illness in Latino farmworkers using activity-oriented, participatory rural appraisal focus group methods. BMC Public Health 13 (1):1–12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-1004.
- Linder, T. 1954. Georgia historical agricultural data. Georgia: State Department of Agriculture.
- Mann, S. A., and J. M. Dickinson. 1978. Obstacles to the development of a capitalist agriculture. The Journal of Peasant Studies 5 (4):466–81. doi: 10.1080/03066157808438058.
- Martyn, B. 1741. An account shewing the progress of the colony of Georgia in America from its first establishment. London: Parliament, House of Commons.
- Mauldin, A. 2019. OSHA fines company after farm worker dies. The Moultrie Observer, January 10. Accessed July 8, 2023. https://www.moultrieobserver.com/news/local_news/osha-fines-company-after-farm-worker-dies/article_ad7f5252-1547-11e9-83b2-07bd669099b5.html.
- McAdams, E. B. 2002. Georgia state prison farm 1899–1937. Accessed May 25, 2021. http://sites.rootsweb.com/∼gabaldw2/pen.html.
- McWilliams, C. [1939] 2000. Factories in the field: The story of migratory farm labor in California. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Mooney, P. H. 1982. Labor time, production time and capitalist development in agriculture: A reconsideration of the Mann–Dickinson thesis. Sociologia Ruralis 22 (3–4):279–92. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.1982.tb01063.x.
- Mines, R., B. Boccalandro, and S. Gabbard. 2007. The Latinization of U.S. farm labor. NACLA. Accessed July 8, 2023. https://nacla.org/article/latinization-us-farm-labor.
- Mitchell, D. 1996. The lie of the land: Migrant workers and the California landscape. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
- Mitchell, D. 2012. They saved the crops: Labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
- National Employment Law Project. 2019. Workplace fatalities rising under Trump OSHA as enforcement declines. March 14. Accessed July 8, 2023. https://www.nelp.org/news-releases/workplace-fatalities-rising-trump-osha-enforcement-declines/.
- Obituaries: Miguel Angel Guzman Chavez. 2018. The Moultrie Observer, June 25. Accessed July 8, 2023. https://obituaries.moultrieobserver.com/obituary/miguel-chavez-1064878753.
- Okie, T. 2011. Under the trees: The Georgia peach and the quest for labor in the twentieth century. Agricultural History 85 (1):72–101. doi: 10.3098/ah.2011.85.1.72.
- Park, K. 2022. The history wars and property law: Conquest and slavery as foundational to the field. Yale Law Journal 131 (4):1062–1153.
- Perea, J. F. 2011. The echoes of slavery: Recognizing the racist origins of the agricultural and domestic worker exclusion from the National Labor Relations Act. Ohio State Law Journal 72:95–138.
- Rhone, N. 2019. Report predicts “killer heat” in Georgia, elsewhere in coming decades. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 16. Accessed May 25, 2021. https://www.ajc.com/news/local/report-predicts-killer-heat-georgia-elsewhere-coming-decades/06vvPLz1BM6L5s5lyonPvI/.
- Roberts, J. 2016. Race and the origins of plantation slavery. In Oxford research encyclopedia of American history. Accessed July 8, 2023. https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/view/1 0.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-268.
- Robinson, C. J. 2000. Black Marxism: The making of the Black radical tradition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
- Rodman, S. O. C. 2016. Agricultural exceptionalism in U.S. policies and policy debates: A mixed methods analysis. PhD diss., Johns Hopkins University.
- Schell, G. 2002. Farmworker exceptionalism under the law: How the legal system contributes to farmworker poverty and powerlessness. In The human cost of food: Farmworkers’ lives, labor, and advocacy, ed. C. D. Thompson and M. F. Wiggins, 137–66. Austin: University of Texas Press.
- Scott, T., ed. 1995. Cornerstones of Georgia history: Documents that formed the state. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
- Smith, N. 2008. Uneven development: Nature, capital, and the production of space. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
- Stephens, T. 1742. The hard case of the distressed people of Georgia. London.
- Talifer, P., H. Anderson, and D. Douglass. 1741. A true and historical narrative of the colony of Georgia in America. Charles Town, SC: Printed by P. Timothy, for the authors.
- Thomas, R. J. 1986. The mythology of agricultural exceptionalism: Some comments. Defense of the Alien 9:18–21.
- Trustees. 1732. Colony of Georgia, RG 49-2-18, Georgia Archives. Royal Charter of the Colony of Georgia. Accessed July 8, 2023. https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/adhoc/id/411/.
- U.S. Department of Labor. 2019. Performance data. U.S. Department of Labor. Accessed May 25, 2021. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance.
- Walker, R. A. 2004. The conquest of bread. New York: The New Press.
- Weber, J. 2015. From South Texas to the nation: The exploitation of Mexican labor in the twentieth century. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.
- Weise, J. M. 2020. Trump’s latest immigration restriction exposes a key contradiction in policy. The Washington Post, June 23. Accessed July 8, 2023. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/23/trumps-latest-immigration-restriction-exposes-key-contradiction-policy/.
- Wells, M. J. 2000. Politics, locality, and economic restructuring: California’s central coast strawberry industry in the post–World War II period. Economic Geography 76 (1):28–49. doi: 10.2307/144539.
- Williams, D. 2020. Perdue, Loeffler seek flexibility in farmworker visas amid Coronavirus outbreak. The Moultrie Observer. March 20. Accessed July 8, 2023. https://www.moultrieobserver.com/news/local_news/perdue-loeffler-seek-flexibility-in-farmworker-visas-amid-coro-navirus-outbreak/article_eeb9e098-6aeb-11ea-ba3d-17fdfcf95fe0.html.
- Williams denies he killed Negroes: Admits peonage, but asserts same is true of most Georgia farmers. 1921. The New York Times, April 8. Accessed July 8, 2023. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/04/08/98665673.html?pageNumber=10.
- Wood, B. 1987. “Until he shall be dead, dead, dead”: The judicial treatment of slaves in eighteenth-century Georgia. The Georgia Historical Quarterly 71 (3):377–98.
- Wright, M. 2006. Disposable women and other myths of global capitalism. London and New York: Routledge.