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A History Of Hispanic Immigrants In Mississippi's Poultry Industry

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Published August 12, 2019 at 11:40 AM CDT
"Dolly," a 17-week old rose comb brown leghorn hen in Mississippi. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP)
"Dolly," a 17-week old rose comb brown leghorn hen in Mississippi. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP)

Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks to cultural anthropologist Angela Stuesse about how poultry workers went from being mostly white women in the 1950s to Hispanic immigrants today.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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