Search Results for American Federation of State

...Katrina Phillips In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, federal Indian policy in the United States sought to assimilate American Indians into Euro-American society. Markers of indigenous culture, namely, songs, dances, and ceremonies, were largely targeted by assimilationists because...

...David A. Chang This essay cautiously compares the dispossession of Native lands in the United States with the enclosure of the English commons, in light of the transfer of political sovereignty that occurred in the case it explores. The federal policy of dividing American Indian nations' tribal...

...Daniel S. Chard From approximately April 1970 to March 1974, the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted surveillance on the American radical science activist organization Science for the People (SftP). In this essay, the author reflects on his experiences teaching...

...Joseph E. Hower Abstract Drawing on union convention proceedings, reports, newspapers, speeches, and internal memoranda, this article uses the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) as a case study to explore organized labor’s response to the HIV/AIDS crisis. One...

.... THE "RECOGNITION" OF Al IERICAN INDIAN TRIBES Many American Indian tribes are "recognized" by the federal govem- ment, that is, considered to be in a government-to-government rela- tionship with the United States." Even so, by the mid-1970s, questions had been raised over whether some identifiable...

... of separation between church and state. In contrast to the political rhetoric, however, funding ties between the federal government and religious agencies are neither a novelty in the history of American public policy nor do they commonly run afoul of First Amendment limitations. Though usually associated...

... by the intrusion of a liberal state apparatus that linked local authorities more directly with federal agencies. African-American challenges to planter dominance now carried the additional weight of defying federal power, which created the ability to bring in federal, not state, troops. While...

.... 2. On the latter, see Margot Canaday, “Building a Straight State: Sexuality and Social Citizenship under the 1944 G.I. Bill,” Journal of American History 90 (2003): 935–57. On the former, see Lauren Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays...

.... is a PhD candidate in Latin American history at the Graduate Center City University of New York. His dissertation focuses on electrification and federal irrigation as processes of state formation in postrevolutionary Mexico. He was a Fulbright–García Robles grantee in 2015, during which time he conducted...

..., and advocate of African American emigration to Africa, called for $40 billion in reparations for slavery. Beginning in the 1940s, the Nation of Islam urged reparations for slavery and called on the federal government to cede several south- ern states to become...

... of institutionalized brainwashing, behavior modification, and torture within the prison regime. The result was a national directive to experiment with these techniques, originally used against American POWs in Korea, on the black Muslim prison popu- lation. As a result, since the early 1960s, federal prisons have...

... to Officers and Delegates of the American Federation of Labor, 22 November 1915, Correspondence Collection (CC)-Gompers Microfilm Collection (GMC), at the Wisconsin State Historical Society. New Majority (NM), 10 September 1921,6. 12. Barrett, Jungle, 192; William Z. Foster, Pages from a Worker’s...

... of indigenous opposition to the US mili- tary in Guam as “terrorism” and, as another, pending federal legislation that would render Native Hawaiians legally equivalent to American Indians so that the United States might circumvent its violations of international law.7 Slavery and colonialism...

... spaces, or as (he would have it, in a moment of rhetorical excess) Foucauldian instruments of state ”micro-power.” We still need a social history of the New Deal’s cultural projects-one cognizant of the indigenous strains of American radical and reformist ideologies-before we can fully assess...

... lives on in a grueling triathalon, violent video games, and websites devoted to sado-masochistic fantasies. ”Freedom” would seem the last thing to come to mind when thinking about Alca- traz. That the most notorious penitentiary in the United States could stand for American liberties...

..., the question now remains as to who comprised that west German audience and the extent to which it represented political sentiment in the old Federal states. In his article, “Anti-Americanism in West Germany,” Andrei S. Markovits has traced the emergence and transformation of a cultural...

... fired from the BIA? Jennings: I was fired for insubordination. I was very discouraged because there wasn't very much of a commitment to the Native American students that were involved in the program. We had drawn college students from all over the United States, and they were placed...

... to fifty North American Indian tribes. The irony of this, to those who know the history, is that the original Fort Lewis was a United States Army post established to protect white settlers from Indian attacks. When the post was abandoned in 1891, it was transformed into a federal Indian boarding...

... and championed after 2001 had begun shaping how the US military operated long before he arrived in Congress. Charting these companies’ role as federal contractors, this article argues that we should understand the relationship between the state and oil-field services corporations not as an adversarial...

... of the end of the most virulent phase of American anti-communist sentiment and witch-hunting. Pitted against the United States Army in nationally televised hearings, McCarthy was exposed as a bully and a fraud. After the hearings, McCarthy’s send te colleagues censured him. McCarthy’s demise did...