Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...miedo entre los inmigrantes mayas y otros latinos en el estado. Los agentes de bienes raíces, los concesionarios de autos y los minoristas de los barrios de inmigrantes han reportado...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...and federal deputies, and revealed the extent of peonage labor.3Ibid. The Peonage Files of the USDepartment of Justice reveal widespread systematic abuse of immigrant, African American, and white workers throughout...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...stretch on repetitive tasks, and are obedient and easy to control."12Sabyasachi Mitra, "Chinese Textile Workers Face a Lose-Lose Situation as China Joins the WTO," China Report 39, no. 1 (2003):...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...University of Southern California. He is the author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945 (Oxford University Press, 1993), co-editor of Los Angeles and...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...stations years to open up to African American hiring and African American actors and anchors. But the television coverage of events in Virginia was decidedly different from the print media...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...of a number of nineteenth-century railroads whose proprietors wished to emphasize that their routes were more direct than those of competing roads. Black travelers described it in a discrimination complaint...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...her condo in Long Beach, California. I had spent the past few weeks perusing her papers at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles mostly on a...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...topical ballads and crossover dance numbers such as "Little Liza Jane." While anglophone black string band and folk blues traditions have not thrived in south Louisiana, all evidence indicates that...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...first names of immigrants and their family members. They arrived in north Georgia with their four children in 1999 after having lived for ten years in Los Angeles. Better job...