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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (2): 330–331.
Published: 01 May 1972
... authority outward and intelligence inward.” Certain recurrent words define Duvaliers Haiti: squalor, stagnation, plunder, predation, rapacity, brutality. Under recent rulers a new, chiefly black, elite has partially superseded the traditional mulatto elite; new economic strategy must consequently...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (1): 151–152.
Published: 01 February 1998
... of a modern nation. It was an elitist view that paid little attention to the true plight of the poor and the dark-skinned majority. Although Naylor could not focus on squalor (it was not part of her assignment and would open her up to the risk of deportation), she was intent on recording the unique diversity...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (1): 167–168.
Published: 01 February 2002
... the grinding of tortillas to religious proces sions to the filth and squalor of poor urban neighborhoods. For example, we learn about the hardships faced by Pioquinto Liñán, a permanent worker on the Hacienda de Bocas in San Luis Potosí, who after purchasing the necessary corn for his family was left with only...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (4): 491–502.
Published: 01 November 1964
.... 9 A hundred years later and amid the squalor of a Mexican vecindad, Roberto Sánchez would conclude: 10 Before they committed this injustice to me I believed in the law, but after that I did not. If this is justice, then what is injustice? There is no law here, just fists and money...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (1): 22–37.
Published: 01 February 1967
... of socialism live in men.. . . ” 42 Though he failed to secure congressional approval for social reform laws, Grove’s activities in the Senate did serve to unite the underprivileged and to publicize their plight. In the midst of the battle against poverty, squalor, and misery he reacted much...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (1): 22–43.
Published: 01 February 1964
... clean spot in the midst of the squalor of the slums. The informal type of teaching carried on in these schools fitted well into the general philosophy of education prevalent at the time. 78 Like the rural schools, a strong emphasis was placed on practical living and some of the schools kept chickens...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (2): 296–313.
Published: 01 May 1977
... communally. Whatever their occupation or status, however, almost all Mexican Indians lived in poverty. As a group, they experienced continual oppression and squalor, a misfortune that dated from the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. Dysentery and other horrible diseases killed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (3): 465–495.
Published: 01 August 2024
... Jaramillo Alvarado and Reinaldo Murgueytio had surmised that Indigenous people were exploited because they were ignorant of the dominant national culture. 14 In order to escape their squalor and be fully incorporated into the nation, the indigenistas claimed, Indigenous people required education...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 February 2014
... policies, and the need to “go up the hill before the Communists descend from it” had become a tenet of middle-class common sense, a corollary to then-current theories of social marginality. 9 Ignorant, brutalized by the violence and squalor of rural social relations, undereducated, disoriented...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 February 2002
..., allegedly above the squalor and pettiness of politics. 79 But unvarying scientific criteria were, for the first and only time in Mexico, used to give shape to territorial organization. It is difficult to judge the effects of this new political geography, for the empire only effectively controlled...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (1): 63–92.
Published: 01 February 2020
..., their preference for curanderos (folk or witch healers) over conventional medicine, their superstitions, and their state of squalor all left them vulnerable in his eyes. 71 What did the typhus epidemic mean in the grand scheme of the Mexican Revolution? Cataclysmic societal upheavals are frequently...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (2): 265–295.
Published: 01 May 2021
... who lifted Guatemala out of antiquated squalor and placed it on the path toward the future. These texts inform my discussion of professional medicine, which, like the nation, needed the needy. 17 This rich archive of disability provides glimpses of power, agency, and political will, if we learn...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (4): 636–673.
Published: 01 November 1979
... The Northeast’s squalor and misery, so easily found and easily photographed, would help sell the Alliance for Progress to the American public. There was a highly visible “Communist” threat—the Peasant Leagues led by lawyer-politician Francisco Julião—and a status quo represented by also highly visible arrogant...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (2): 233–269.
Published: 01 May 1987
... just off dockside, faded away into the maze-like squalor of the slums. Only sporadic street or factory conflicts, progressively contained, remained. By the 18th, the revolt was effectively over. 9 A period of repression followed, armed by an official state of siege. Imprisonment, beatings...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (4): 669–710.
Published: 01 November 2016
... was, racially speaking, sui generis and to making invisible the broader world from which he came. The few accounts that attempted to create a backdrop for his life imputed conditions that authors considered typical of blacks, such as poverty, orphanhood, or the squalor of a conventillo (tenement). 87...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (1): 1–44.
Published: 01 February 1997
... also argued that hipoemia intertropical was distinct from febre paludosa (malaria). 68 M. V. Pereira, “Ancylostoma duodenale,” 24, 71. 69 Ibid., 27. 70 Ibid., 78, 81. 71 For good discussions on the relation between disease, squalor, destitution, and the rise...