Rick W. A. Smith

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@Anthrofuentes Thanks, Agustin ❤️

so excited for this article!!!!!

Excited to share our new paper from the Texas Rural Health and Heritage project - “The plantation system and the roots of the southern rural mortality penalty in the northern Blackland Prairies of Texas.” @robingnelson @AWRgenes sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Lunch planning with the co-organizers of the forthcoming AJBA special issue, Queer Feminism in Biological Anthropology. #AABA2024

@robingnelson Can confirm 😂

@robingnelson Wednesday’s bout to be wacky as hell.

The American Association of Biological Anthropologists affirms our support of trans lives. Please see the full text of our statement on our website: bioanth.org/about/position…

This site is such a hellscape now. I miss the good old days. Like when that professor had a burner account and pretended to die from Covid. That was when Twitter was pure.

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@ChrisStantis @robingnelson @AWRgenes Really beautiful pic, Chris. I remember talking about your TX Czech roots in DC last year. Eventually I’d like to write another paper just about them & contrast the experiences of Eastern Europeans in TX vs. the NE in the late 19th and early 20th century. Night and day.

@rickwasmith @robingnelson @AWRgenes Congrats on your paper! Speaking of rural Texan Czech, this is my great grandmother with her five daughters. All would work as sharecroppers, but often lose their job to men.

My new preprint with @robingnelson and @AWRgenes from our Texas Rural Health Project: “The Plantation System and the Roots of the Southern Rural Mortality Penalty.” osf.io/preprints/soca…

@ktcapuchin Thanks, Katie!

We find that the plantation system accounts for nearly all the variation in mortality that exists across the rural/urban divide in the Blackland Prairies of Texas, elucidating the historical processes underlying the emergence of rural health disparities in the region.

We collected & analyzed vital records data from post-emancipation period Texas, when emerging forms of plantation labor such as tenant farming, convict leasing, & migrant labor were developed to sustain the plantation economy after the abolishment of chattel slavery.