The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...of anemic millions all over the Caribbean, all over the tropical belt that girdles the portly belly of Mother Earth."3Ibid., 5. If Ashford's photographic record connected the jíbaro to hookworm...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...1972. Map by City Art Studio. Originally published in The Nuntius 3, no. 10 (October 1972): 23. Courtesy of the University of Houston Libraries Special Collections. Cruising: Practice and Concept...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...the Free Government Bathhouse created by the HSR in 1878, increasing numbers did so at private enterprises.15Haywood, Analyses of the Waters, 5. Hot Springs was "fast becoming a fashionable resort."16J.L....
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...population, demographic, and housing information: General Demographic Characteristics," 2000, accessed October 13, 2002, http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/28/28123.html. Driven by the industry's recruitment of foreign-born labor, by the early 2000s immigration had made Scott...
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...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Business," Memphis Business Journal, October 15, 2004, 1, 50. The presence of Federal Express also influenced Northwest Airlines' decision to establish a Memphis hub for passenger flights. For more than...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...1845, National Archives. Profiting financially from the expulsion of Cherokees, Floyd County citizens sanctioned Georgia's policies. A few days before the treaty deadline, post commanders estimated the number of Cherokees...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...of our time."10John Kirtley, "Facing a Harsh Truth When Fighting for a Bipartisan Cause," RedefinED, May 20, 2011, https://www.redefinedonline.org/2011/05/facing-a-harsh-truth-when-fighting-for-a-bipartisan-cause/; Katie Nielsen, "How School Choice Helps Advance Martin Luther King's Legacy,"...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...represented by Margaret Sanger’s activism. In the 1920s and 1930s, however, medical professionals, eugenicists, and other birth control advocates—including Sanger—sought to establish birth control as a legitimate medical issue. Clarence...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...NAFTA Food Chain: Women, Food & Globalization, ed. Deborah Barndt (Toronto: Sumach Press, 1999), 141-160; Fran Ansley and Susan Williams, “Southern Women and Southern Borders on the Move: Tennessee Workers...