Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...a Black social and political club that operated from 1975 into the 1980s.81For more on The Houston Committee, see "Houston Committee," Upfront 1, no. 2 (April 28, 1978): 2. http://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/Houston80s/Upfront/Upfront-V1-1-2.compressed.pdf....
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...South" heard UGK's music during their heyday, their growing reputation further elevated Houston's profile.30Kelefa Sanneh, "The Strangest Sound in Hip-Hop Goes National," New York Times, sec. 2, April 17, 2005....
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...dollars annually to the city's local economy.8"2015 Military Economic Impact Study" (San Antonio, TX: Department of Government and Public Affairs, accessed July 1, 2021), https://www.sanantonio.gov/Portals/0/Files/OMA/EconImpact/2015SanAntonioMilitaryEconomicImpact.pdf?ver=2017-02-15-142835-893. Although contemporary San Antonio's diversified...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...travel to Aibonito to receive training at headquarters.52A. H. Frazur to Alcalde de San Sebastián, June 9, 1905, CA, box 4. Similarly, Francisco Sein, the doctor for the town of...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...it very good, but I held on and the train dragged me and that is why I am so scratched. — Francisco Castillo1Francisco Castillo [pseud.], interview by author, interpreted by...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...down and regenerated the region's sandy soil.6Richard Walter Massey Jr., "A History of the Lumber Industry in Alabama and West Florida 1880–1914," (PhD diss., Vanderbilt University, 1960), 28–29. On the...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...of southern deindustrialization and Asian labor markets. Who makes what where, when, and why depends on a chase around the globe for cheap labor that involves overlapping waves of industrialization...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...lower labor costs, waiving import duties, and offering special assistance.37Francisco Rivera-Batiz and Carlos Santiago, Island Paradox: Puerto Rico in the 1990s (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1996), 12. Harvey S....
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...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...Sanchez of the Norsan Group, and Dutch Knotts. This video could not have been made without the support of people and community leaders of Santa Eulalia, Guatemala, as well as...