The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...inhabitants were peasants living in the coffee region.12Irene Fernández Aponte, El cambio de soberanía en Puerto Rico: El otro '98 (Madrid: Editorial Mapfre, 1992). Top, Coffee-Drying Plot near Mayaguez, Puerto...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Elemore Morgan, Jr. Interview with Sarah Jackson and Pierre Cazaubon, Rob Rombout, 2006. This video is a portrait of Elemore Morgan Jr., widely acknowledged as the foremost contemporary Louisiana landscape...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...not too far from the Savannah River and 'Indian Street' on this map, is a label for 'Bryan Street,' named after an earlier (related) Joseph Bryan, "benevolent friend of [James]...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...Indian Fishing Protests," New York Times, December 2, 1966, 69; Charles F. Wilkinson, Messages from Frank's Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way (Seattle: University of Washington...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...[the city] haunted by yellow fever upon their arrival."77Ross, Die Auswanderers Handbuch, 404. Books by Gabriel Auguste van der Straten-Ponthoz and Traugott Braume shared Ross's concerns and warnings.78Gabriel Auguste van...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...in Central Florida Speak Spanish?"50Luis Martinez-Fernandez, "Orlando Develops Hispanic Accent," Orlando Sentinel, July 26, 2005; Victor Manuel Ramos, "Latinos at the Helm of Orlando's Public Broadcasting," Orlando Sentinel, December 11,...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Mary Ellen's heightened Weathers's awareness about Black experience in the United States through conversations she had with Mary Ellen, a Black male acquaintance nicknamed Mr. Elegance, and white and Mexican...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...the "Readymade Elvis," "Dirty Elvis," "Mother Elvis," and "Third Elvis." Readymade Elvis is Comentale's most explicit comparison of Duchamp and Presley, "two brilliant artists of everyday life" (166–167). The author...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...series of measures eliminating or reducing benefits for 170,000 workers, the legislature slashed unemployment eligibility standards, cut benefit payments by more than a third, and reduced the length of eligibility...
How I Shed My Skin
...Race Traitor from 1999. In contrast to the dance floor, the gospel chorus remained color-coded. Inherited from the all-black high school, the chorus had no white members after consolidation. In...