Race land: the ecology of segregation

The Race Land project is a global and environmental history of the Jim Crow system in the United States South, with a focus on the realities and afterlives of plantation agriculture.

• A Garden in the Cotton Fields: Fannie Lou Hamer and Cooperative Economics on the Freedom Farm (2025)

• Plantation Myths, Plantationocene Realities: Oil and Tourism in the US Gulf South and the Dutch Caribbean (2025)

• A Strongman Republic: Trumpism and the Cold War History of Race and Authoritarianism in U.S. Foreign Policy (2024)

• Hoe passen Trumps autoritaire ideeën in de Amerikaanse politieke traditie? (2024) | audio

• ‘Je deelt wat je hebt: samen voorwaarts,’ solidariteit in de Mississippi Delta (2023)

• Swamp Things: The Wetland Roots of American Authoritarianism (2023)

• Race Land: The Ecology of Segregation (2023) | video

• Plantationocene Geographies: Petro-Multinationals, Agribusiness, and the Racial Ecology of the Cold War Mississippi Delta (2023)

• Het Zuiden van Amerika: van Republikeins naar Democratisch? (2021) | audio

• The Democratic Party and the US South: Past, Present, and Future (2021) | video

• Mondiaal wit verzet: massive resistance en de Amerikaanse burgerrechtenbeweging, 1932-1969 (2020)

• Jim Crow Democracy: The U.S. South and Racialized Policy-Making in the Aftermath of World War II (2019)