Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...Those authors live in Cuba, yes, but they have recognized international careers. Ulises was tremendously successful in Mexico with a work that curiously reconstructs the trajectory of another exiled artist,...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...the coast, Theriot asserts broader spatial implications: developments in offshore drilling and wetland science around the world developed in and through the Gulf of Mexico. His account is largely descriptive,...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...he pursued with his characteristic vigor but could not realize due to a lack of institutional support and funds. Crossing the international bridge between Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas,...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...Mexico (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2006); Peter van Wyck, The Highway of the Atom (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2010). Beginning with Elaine Tyler May's Homeward Bound and Paul Boyer's...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...One of this "great majority" was Virgil Oren Adams. A native of Clovis, New Mexico, during the early 1930s Adams made several visits to the Hot Springs VD clinic. Each...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...2006 far below fifty percent. Elsewhere in the country, only three states—New Mexico, California, and Oregon—had a majority of low-income students. Given recent trends, however, public schools in the western...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...nothing to promote political and economic change. In July 2010 Menendez took the Senate floor to oppose an easing of travel restrictions, remarking that more opportunities for US citizens to...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...nine young men should not be forgotten. Moreover, as many expressed, remembering Scottsboro could promote racial healing today, still a pressing need. The commemorative events centered on the Scottsboro Boys...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...in a mode promoting social justice and change for all LGBTQ+ people. My wrist might not be ‘stiff’ in the way my dad intended, but I think my artistic mission...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...the singing schools as crude. Musicians such as Lowell Mason (1792-1872) began an ardent campaign against the singing schools and the kind of music they promoted. Mason and the "better...