"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...they want to live the "American Dream", they need to be American. Americans speak English. If we keep catering to these people they will have no reason to learn English....
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
..."Anemia Dispensary Service," a sub-bureau of the Department of Health, Charities, and Corrections, with Gutiérrez Igaravídez retained as its director. During the next two years, the dispensary service increased the...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Texas, June 20, 1961. Photograph by Robert Wilner (Houston Post). Courtesy of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center and the Houston Public Library. Identifier RGD0006N-1961-5656-1. Although Levine's work gives an important...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Wine Drinking ceremony. The services last until midnight and then recess. Usually the church members go to one of the camp house kitchens for coffee and to visit. Services are...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...these American looms ended up there. Conquered by the Mongols in the eighth century and by Russia in the nineteenth, Uzbekistan became part of the Soviet Union in 1924 and...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Lewis secured Pepsi Cola, which sponsored Teenage Frolics as part of the "special markets" campaign to increase sales of the beverage among African Americans.37On Pepsi marketing to black customers, see...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...city's neighborhoods, with concentrations in Wheatville and Clarksville,30Clarksville, the first colony of free African Americans in Texas, remained unincorporated by the City of Austin and almost entirely African American well...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...American Community Survey, 2003. In public education, the Memphis city schools report a high school graduation rate of 48.5 percent, one of the worst in the United States. Ranked fortieth...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...1950s," American Quarterly 56, no. 3 (September 2004). He is Past President of the American Studies Association (2001-2002), and is one of the co-editors of the book series, American Crossroads:...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...how the plantation household—and the racialized kinship structures that underpin it—increasingly came to shape human life for American Indians, African Americans, and Euro-Americans after the emergence of the United States....