Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...breeches it. But we have indeed invested billions of dollars in stopping the flow. Going home to Durango, Mexico from The Guestworker, 2007. We have to understand what is happening...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...port cities. Instead, it was a sluggish disease endemic in the island's mountainous interior. Whereas in Cuba most yellow fever victims were nonimmune Spanish immigrants, in Puerto Rico most hookworm...
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...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...During the Depression few people were willing to spring for the price of tickets, and drive-ins slowly appeared on the outskirts of other urban areas, such as Galveston, Texas, Los...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...Mexican border. The Health Tex jobs probably went to maquiladoras in Veracruz or Oaxaca-where the super-low wages of women make for big money for big business. 296 people in and...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...Guatemala. And while men still make up the majority of Maya migrants, a growing number of women and children have joined husbands, fathers, and brothers in Georgia, resulting in a...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...As rising tension elevated the potential for violence, numbers increasingly favored the Georgians. Fewer than nine thousand Cherokees lived on land sought by nearly 220,000 Georgians and awarded to 54,500...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...battle, followed by stops where the first fighting occurred, proceeding to the site where the clash was most intense, and concluding with the locations of the final and most famous...