027: The Bones of Texas History

TwoStonians

Theme Song: Muddy Waters – Louisiana Blues

01:00 Maria finally visits Htown!
14:15 Sugarland mass gravesite
16:07 Convict Labor & Mass incarceration
21:55 Sugarland trying to forget the 95 bodies
26:45 Reggie Moore: HERO
33:14 Civil Rights Tourism? That’s a thing?
40:30 Profiting off racism
43:20 White exceptionalism is not for sale!
46:50 Louisiana & criminal (in)justice
53:00 Lynching Memorials
1:04:30 At least the conversation is being had?

SUGGESTED "READING":
Talitha L. LeFlouria, Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the South
Sarah Haley, No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
Michael Hardy, Texas Monthly, "Blood and Sugar"
Dread Scott, Art and Photography
The Equal Justice Initiative, The National Memorial of Peace and Justice
Ken Gonzalez-Day, Erased Lynchings