The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...many US officials were aware of those numbers. Nonetheless, US leaders who visited postwar Japan retained the impression that masses of people who were poorly dressed and homeless, including orphans...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...author. Nan and Maria are enlisted as WACs (Women's Army Corps).26Founded in 1942 as the women's branch of the US Army, the Women's Army Corps existed until 1978, when it...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...a Mayan Community in the Highlands of Guatemala (New York: Gordon and Breach, 1979); Carol Smith, “Class Position and Class Consciousness in an Indian Community” in Moors, Guatmala Indians and...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...his deep rich voice, one of the wild songs of his Indian fathers […] The words spoke of the Indian when he had fallen and wasted before the white man,...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...the Pacific theater from insect-borne diseases, and the US Army proclaimed it the "war's greatest contribution to the future health of the world."3"DDT Seen for Public by Spring," Atlanta Journal,...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...and similarly split districts in surrounding Davidson County, under Superintendent J. E. Moss. In round numbers, there were about ten thousand black students and twenty thousand whites in the city...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...wanted to honor an essay that had influenced the entire field of Native American literary studies, Simon Ortiz’s seminal 1981 work, “Towards a National Indian Literature.” In American Indian Literary...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011); Malinda Maynor Lowery, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity,...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...To what degree can English, a language spoken by almost every Indian in the United States and English-speaking Canada, also be considered an Indian language at this point? What does...