Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...alphabet agencies, brought forth the American Guide Series. Its roughly 400 volumes encompassed every state as well as the territories of Alaska and Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia....
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...the homes of black families in rural Georgia and Arkansas' cotton country and in a village of sugarcane laborers in Puerto Rico. The spraying was part of a set of...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
Review Early in April 2009 the Mexican state of Veracruz identified cases of H1N1 influenza that led, by April 22, to the Mexican health secretary's declaring an influenza epidemic. The...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...“My dad is from Prague and my mom from Puerto Rico,” “I am from Jutiapa, El Progresso, Guatemala!” The lists of names and places turn into longer narratives of immigration....
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...Rico during the Second World War, the PHS official was privately reprimanded for proposing "methods of registration and identification of prostitutes which seem quite out of line" with the federal...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...the area, seem to have moved to the adjacent county of Hanover. Distance between places could be measured in units other than miles. Henrico and Hanover, sharing a border of...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
“If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth to this present time I would... It makes me weep to feel the history of...
Image Credits
...Davis / Just Out. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. "In Memory of all Puerto Ricans," panel from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Display, Organization of American States Art Museum of the...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...a instalar el cableado eléctrico en las nuevas casas de los suburbios.18Entrevistas con Alfredo (2001, 2002) La mano de obra de los trabajadores inmigrantes como Alfredo, su tío y su...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
Introduction Introduced in a 1995 song by the Atlanta-based group Goodie Mob, the idea of the "Dirty South" spread quickly throughout the rap music subculture and industry, and by the...