Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...“Liminal Legality”; James Smith,“Guatemala: Economic Migrants Replace Political Refugees” Migration Policy Institute, Migration Information Source (April 2006) http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/guatemala-economic-migrants-replace-political-refugees/. This first wave of migrants from war-torn Guatemala initially settled in Los...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...infant corpses and live human organ trafficking (141–144). Díaz, who teaches at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, calls this the "black legend" of the border. These grotesqueries are part of...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...against founders Smith, Hargrove, Mitchell, Philip Hemphill, and John Lumpkin.38John Ross and Family v. Philip W. Hemphill, William Smith, Zachariah B. Hargrove, Daniel R. Mitchell, Terrell Mayo, and John H....
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...created," Luther Campbell observed, "We DJ'ed differently down here." Groups like "the International DJs[,] The South Miami DJs, SS Express, and the Jammers" used turntables to mix records through loud,...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...https://tennesseelookout.com/2024/04/22/tennessees-statewide-school-voucher-bill-dead-but-not-forgotten/. Karen Brooks Harper, “School voucher supporters bask in primary wins, say goals are within reach,” Texas Tribune, Mar. 6, 2024, https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/06/texas-primaries-vouchers-school-choice/; Renzo Downey, “Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is...
Mississippi: State of Confession
Review The Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum mock-up from the 2 Mississippi Museums Project Fact Sheet, 2013. Mississippi says it is ready to confess some...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...10 minutes. Drain. Mix vinegar, sugar, salt, mustard, celery seeds and turmeric. Add to tomato mixture boil slowly for 15 or 20 minutes or until ready to can. Pour in...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...incorporate birth control as part of public health programs targeting the poor and racial minorities before the war. Koya’s mission was to learn how to launch effective and mass-scale, state-sponsored...
The Carolina Piedmont
...the mid-eighteenth century in an attempt to preserve the heart of their culture. The exterminating intentions of rapidly arriving "settlers" led, by the mid-1830s, to forced removal. Further south, the...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...Otius (Sr.) and the grandson of Charles Teney; since slavery followed the condition of the mother, William Jr. would have been enslaved until he was manumitted at the age of...