Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...change. Menendez, like many Cuban-Americans of his generation, opposes lifting the US ban on travel to Cuba because he believes exchange would provide additional funding to the "Castro regime," doing...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...of each, she has prevented these conspirators from succeeding, keeping out much of what she and other loyal residents see as destructive change. But, to take it a step further,...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...of public health management back to the United States. See Warwick Anderson, "Pacific Crossings: Imperial Logics in the United States' Public Health Programs," in Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...11, no. 1 (2005): 6-25. Drawing on more than ten years of research on community change, racial formations/politics, and immigration to southern cities and towns, we call for a deeper...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...aftermath of the war contributed to a second wave of Maya immigration to the United States. The Peace Accords brought about some important changes—demilitarization, creation of a civilian police force,...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...Bruce Raynor, president of UNITE and Workers United, for the change that occurred in the early 1980s. When he took over as director of the southern region, she noted, "women...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...nation projected to become majority-minority by 2043—change to spaces, places, and soundscapes appears inevitable.78Ennis, Ríos-Vargas, and Albert, "The Hispanic Population: 2010," United States Census Bureau, May 2011, http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-04.pdf. "An Older...
Religion and the US South
...provided justification for the wealthy to profit from economic development, but it also gave meaning to those bearing the burdens of economic change without proper recompense. Throughout such changes, religious...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...make television a potentially powerful instrument for change.4Some media historians question whether television was so powerful, whether it helped shape public opinion at all. In a recent essay on television's...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...Vital Statistics Rates in the United States, 1900-1940 (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1943), 704-823; Robert D. Grove and Alice M. Hetzel, Vital Statistics Rates in the United States,...