Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999); Matthew Frye Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...Nevertheless, it is possible to broadly trace the major waves of industrialization and deindustrialization in the United Kingdom and Europe, the United States, and the Far East. As shown in...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...For an example of pumpkins packed in barrels of sweet potatoes, see PE, September 25, 1897. Map of Eastern United States Featuring Cities Linked to Eastern Shore Through Trade. The...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
..."the cultural system of ideas about social and linguistic relationships, together with their loading of moral and political interests."5Judith T. Irvine, "When Talk Isn't Cheap: Language and Political Economy," American...
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...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...port in the United States and forms a vital link in the 2,600-mile inland waterway connecting the United States to Mexico via the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.8Karim...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...was soon evident even to casual observers. The movement of industrial capital from the United States to the maquilas and the movement of low-wage workers from Mexico to the United...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...the United States, they also maintained important links with family and community members back in Guatemala. They communicated with parents, wives, children, and siblings through phone and audio- and video-taped...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...of public health management back to the United States. See Warwick Anderson, "Pacific Crossings: Imperial Logics in the United States' Public Health Programs," in Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...Coast.2The debates over “race suicide” in the United States from the 1890s to the 1930s were deeply linked to the supposed fecundity of Asian immigrants, especially the Japanese. See, Laura...