Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...y una forma distintiva de vestido, costumbres y prácticas religiosas. Sin embargo, durante las décadas de los setenta y ochenta numerosas fuerzas amenazaron las bases sociales de las comunidades indígenas...
Deep Ellum Blues
...L. McDonald, Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion, 1870-1925 (Dallas: The Dallas Historical Society, 1978), v. Almost nothing, neither geography nor government, constrained the growth of the city, and it...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...Basic Books, 1992); Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (New York: Double Day, 2008). Foreign Contract...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...of southern deindustrialization and Asian labor markets. Who makes what where, when, and why depends on a chase around the globe for cheap labor that involves overlapping waves of industrialization...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...of a number of nineteenth-century railroads whose proprietors wished to emphasize that their routes were more direct than those of competing roads. Black travelers described it in a discrimination complaint...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...pulsiones son las que habitan mi teatro. Ojalá tengan que ver con las de otras personas. Gunnels: Dime más sobre eso que llamas 'pasión y entrañeza.' Capitolio at night, Havana,...
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...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...Eastern Shore was established about 2,000 to 4,000 years ago when sea level rise slowed after the end of the last Ice Age. The pace of sea level rise began...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
Introduction Recording of "Coronation" #63 sung by Hoboken Sacred Harp Singers, led by Silas Lee, Florida Folk Festival. Courtesy of Florida Folklife Collection, State Library of Florida, May 4, 1958. Music...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...York: Praeger, 1986), 35. To reduce the number of surplus laborers, government agencies helped employers recruit Puerto Ricans for low-paid jobs in New York City. The last period of migration,...