Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...peoples all contested Mexico's shifting borderlands.3See Pekka Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008). The Comanche region, Mexico, 1832. Map of Mexico's nineteenth-century shifting borderlands courtesy of...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...describe how crimes are prosecuted on reservations. And it involves a complicated narrative about how Oklahoma tribal jurisdiction has a unique status in relationship to other Indian reservations across the...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...mountains of east Tennessee, Morristown explores the lived experiences of workers from Tennessee and Mexico who speak about their lives, work, disappointments, and hopes. These conversations are combined with scenes...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...DOJ officials in 1906, immigrant workers linked the New York labor agents to the Jackson Company and described their trip to Georgia and Alabama as a forced crossing into a...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...this phenomenon (39, 93, 114). Despite the deep interconnectedness of the United States and Mexico, as well as the major political and social questions this interdependence engenders, narratives of US-Mexico...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...fifteen or sixteen years old, but most were in their late teens or early twenties. There were several mother-daughter pairs in the mill, and a number of the women working...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...many US officials were aware of those numbers. Nonetheless, US leaders who visited postwar Japan retained the impression that masses of people who were poorly dressed and homeless, including orphans...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...pickup sites were racially segregated, a good number of them were racially mixed, especially in the late 1990s and beyond. Pickup sites in the Buford Highway corridor and the northern...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...the ongoing mutability of landscape, it is part industrial site with a plywood manufacturing company, part elementary school site, and is bisected by a highway.47The statement that there was a...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...as white, female as well as male. The program reaped immediate dividends: according to state officials, only one year after implementing Wenger's "maintenance" plans, the number of venereal health-seekers leaving...