The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Suárez Findlay, Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999), 110–34. The second crossing demonstrates the linkages between colonial medicine...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...only if they dream in English."1Samuel P. Huntington, "The Hispanic Challenge," Foreign Policy, March 1, 2004, accessed January 4, 2013, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2004/03/01/the_hispanic_challenge. Here, the suggestion goes, as in the case of...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Soto and Vitachuco, 1898. Image by George Gibbs. Originally published in Grace King's De Soto and his Men in the Land of Florida (The Macmilliam Company, 1898). Courtesy of the...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
Howard Dodson, Making Art at the Schomburg: Africana Archives as Sites of Art Making (Part 1 of 3), 2014. Art making has been a critical aspect of the human experience...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Zoetmulder, eds. The Panorama Phenomenon: Mesdag Panorama 1881–1981 (The Hague, Netherlands: Foundation for the Preservation of the Centenarian Panorama, 1981), 18. A darkened entrance hall, indoor lighting that brilliantly illuminated...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...'n Roll Show & Dance," Philadelphia Tribune, April 19, 1958; "Swingin' the Blues," Philadelphia Tribune, August 5, 1958; "Mitch Thomas Show Attracts Over 2000," Philadelphia Tribune, August 18, 1958; "Don't...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...1932, 5; Sept. 8, 1932, 5; Dec. 21, 1933, 6; Feb. 3, 1938, 6; Feb. 17, 1938, 6; March 3, 1938, 5; April 7, 1938, 6; Dec. 13, 1939, 9;...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...1940s, Gainey grew up poor and gay in rural South Carolina and attended Clemson University, where he studied ornamental horticulture. Using vernacular plants in classical garden design, he became a...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
Every week Miz Nell Weaver had us memorize a Bible verse, one for each letter of the alphabet. This was in the fourth grade, Centreville, Alabama, 1956. One by one,...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Katrina and Intangible Culture Hurricane Katrina caused over 1.2 million people to flee greater New Orleans, where levees failed to protect both urban and outlying areas. I have elsewhere described...