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...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...percent of the foreign born in those two neighboring states came from Mexico in that same year. So rather than think that this migration from Mexico to New Orleans is...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...and name the intestinal parasite that causes the disease was won by Stiles. Working with a hookworm specimen provided by Ashford, in 1902 Stiles found that the parasite belonged to...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...in history. Exploring seemingly ordinary sites is a way to gain a new awareness of history, even if the sites are often encountered during our everyday routines. Landscape historian John...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...Rivera Torres as one of the wealthiest men in Mexico with a net worth exceeding $100 million and over seventy-eight projects underway in Mexico." With help from Stanley Lane, a...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...New Mexico, Arizona, and California). In a 1917 letter protesting forced smallpox vaccination, or re-vaccination, Miguel Barrera, a Mexican businessman working in Texas, challenged border medical officials' decisions. "When a...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...tourism and hospitality industry generated an estimated 15.2 billion dollars in 2017. Top, Figure 1: Map showing political divisions of Mexico 1824. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons license CC...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Society in Colonial Mexico (1660–1720) (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994); María Elena Martínez, Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...a Forgotten Rebellion and its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 27-37. For Johnson the railroad penetrated the isolated region along the Texas-Mexico border...