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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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....
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...increase from forty-four to sixty-seven the number of post offices in Accomack and Northampton counties. The advent of the railroad in 1884 further stimulated the establishment of post offices both...
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
...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...