Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...State, 1540 to 1988 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990). From the colonial era through most of the twentieth century, much of the Maya population lived in the Guatemala highlands...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...no. 2, February 2000: 176-186; Stephen Greenhouse, "Hispanic Workers Die at Higher Rate: More Likely Than Others to Do the Dangerous, Low-End Jobs," New York Times, 16 September 2001. Hugo...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...February 12, 1961: 11. Royalties statement for Mountain Music of Kentucky, 1961. In many ways, Cohen and his peers projected themselves onto Halcomb. Cohen's portrayal of Halcomb as a solitary, romantic, creative...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...12,960 (4.4%) 297, 052 Orange County 308, 244 (26.9%) 149,457 (13%) 1,145,956 Osceola County 122,146 (45.5%) 72,986 (27.2%) 268,685 Buenaventura Lakes 18,160 (69%) 11,618 (44.5%) 26,079 In comparison to past...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...1 (January 1910): 22. See also Gregory Clark, "Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? Lessons from the Cotton Mills," Journal of Economic History 47, no. 1 (March 1987): 141–173. On...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...Many customers bring their own Crown Royal, which is acceptable as long as they buy mixers. By ten o’clock, although the lounge grows smoky and raucous, a code of behavior...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...members marching in the Atlanta Gay Pride Parade, Atlanta, Georgia, 1973 Early History of Charis Books and More: 1974–1981 Photographer unknown, former owner Sherry Emory, founder Linda Bryant, and...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Suárez Findlay, Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999), 110–34. The second crossing demonstrates the linkages between colonial medicine...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...Center. And Arturo Alfonso Schomburg's Collection at the New York Public Library has evolved into the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This presentation will focus on the Schomburg...