In their quest for greater political participation within shifting imperial fields - from Spanish (1850s - 1898) to US rule (1898- ) - Puerto Ricans struggled to shape and contain conversations about race. In so doing, they crafted, negotiated, and imposed on others multiple for…
In their quest for greater political participation within shifting imperial fields--from Spanish (1850s-1898) to US rule (1898- ) Puerto Ricans struggled to shape and contain conversations about race. In so doing, they crafted, negotiated, and imposed on others multiple forms of…
Folk songs are short stories from the souls of common people. Some, like Mexican corridos or Scottish ballads, reworked in the Appalachias, are stories of tragic or heroic episodes. Others, like the African American blues, reach from a difficult present back into slavery and for…
"In the economy of 2020, what will people do better than computers? Technology is rapidly invading fields that it once could not touch, driving cars better than humans do, packing boxes, identifying faces, scurrying around hospitals delivering medications, all faster, more relia…
Buxton: a Black utopia in the heartland
by Schwieder, Dorothy, Hraba, Joseph, Schwieder, Elmer
fromA Bur oak book
Buxton: a Black utopia in the heartland
by Schwieder, Dorothy, Hraba, Joseph, Schwieder, Elmer
fromBur oak book
"From 1900 to the early 1920s, an unusual community existed in America's heartland: Buxton, Iowa, established by the Consolidation Coal Company. The majority of Buxton's five thousand residents were African Americans - a highly unusual racial composition for a state which was ov…
This work challenges the field of British cultural studies to return to the question of social class as a primary focus of study. The chapters examine contemporary working-class life and its depiction in the media through a number of case studies on topics such as popular cinema…
This work challenges the field of British cultural studies to return to the question of social class as a primary focus of study. The chapters examine contemporary working-class life and its depiction in the media through a number of case studies on topics such as popular cinema…
"American historians tend to believe that labor activism was moribund in the years between the First World War and the New Deal. John Huibregtse challenges this perspective in his examination of the railroad unions of the time. Huibregtse demonstrates that not only were the rail…
