GEO 142 Lecture 7: Work Demonstration
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From the u. s. south to the global south: practicing development at home. Mapping an emerging empire: the american empire to retoil military things, an economic empire, with corporations with political power. American companies are interested in the south because it is considered undeveloped. Free people, produce more food, clothing material for housing. Infant death rate is greater than it should be. Unsteady links and interventions and other countries. First decades of 20th century, teaching women. 1914 smith lever: get educated at universities. Each state had its own hierarchy: segregated. Usda consumption, switch in economics, teaching women to be producers: home production. 1920: mississippi how to be a better consumer. Want to be the new modern women. Equal emphasis on money being spent: gardening, sanitation and help. Transported to teach african americans to use wireless cooker to multitask: cooking and working in the fields. Wilson writes stories about great need of home improvement.
