The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...imperial medical intervention. A syndicate-owned cotton plantation in Mapimi, Mexico, had recruited over one hundred African American sharecroppers from Alabama to become "colonists," and relocate to Mexico to provide labor...
Residues of Border Control
...Security boxes, Matamoros, Mexico, 2010. Susan Harbage Page, Department of Homeland Security box with label, Matamoros, Mexico, 2010. Personal belongings boxes labeled by the Department of Homeland Security still contain...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...civil rights movement, Julian Bond speculated that "until historians unravel the complex links between the southern freedom struggle and the mass media, their understanding of how the Movement functioned, why...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...admirable policy of not having students work for free. Luckily, it didn't take long for then-managing-editor Sarah Toton to find the needed funding to add another position. I joined Southern...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Pride Houston. There were two queer bookstores, a free monthly magazine, and several free weekly papers. Soon, I was working for one of those papers, distributing copies all over the...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...155–82. On Brazil, see Gilberto Hochman, A era do saneamento: As bases da política de saúde pública no Brasil (São Paulo: Editora Hucitec, 1998). On Mexico, see Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Marriage...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...to be remembered long after the fighting stopped."The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance" delves into the recorded past of a particularly fierce engagement between the United States and the...
When the Border Crossed Me
...afternoon I walked out of my farm field to meet five men from Mexico. They drove into my driveway in an old beat up blue Impala, got out in the...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Republic of Texas and parts of which were considered contested territory between Mexico and Texas until US annexation and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (refer back to Figure 1)—have traditionally...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...of Seventh Street and south of Manor Road adjacent to I-35 experienced between 18 and 31 percent increases in white population between 2000 and 2010.23"Change in the White Percentage of...