Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...Cajuns in the New Economy of Ethnicity (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002). His mediation rested on the primacy of French as a marker of cultural authenticity. "[T]he preservation of the language,"...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...culture, language, or religious belief system worthy of preservation was applied as enslavers instituted the practice of erasing African cultures by imposing European customs and values. It was believed that...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...idiom that celebrated the artists and their music. Virtually all of the concerts sold out and were videotaped for historic preservation. They now form part of the Center's archives. The...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...manager of the Historic and Cultural Preservation Department of the Muscogee Nation, notes that the Mvskoke spelling of the river would be: "orko ofv hvcce," meaning Pawpaw ("Orko," pronounced oth-go), river, or...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...entrenchment of health disparities; the ways that race and gender shape and are shaped by health policy; and the inseparable connection between health justice and health advocacy. Public health scholarship...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...whom he fought as a military commander and displaced using the Indian Removal policy during his presidency. As Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, Ross counted among Jackson's vocal adversaries....
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...and synthetic chemicals such as DDT and parathion. USDA policy encouraged farmers to invest in machines and chemicals and bent policy to aid wealthy farmers. The crop cycle increasingly required...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...address past or present questions of voting rights, disenfranchisement, public policy, political representation, campaign technologies, redistricting, etc. Topics of interest may include (but are not limited to): Political boundaries (redistricting;...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...classes, who for the most part landed in south Florida and remained. After the Mariel Boatlift, US immigration policy of the mid-90s led to some increased immigration from the island,...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...resumed restricting social safety nets while offering few, if any, alternatives? Changing policy is one problem organizers face, burnout is another. Studies have suggested that we approach "burnout as a...