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Dangerous Dependence or Productive Masculinity?: Gendered Representations of Puerto Ricans in the US Press, 1940–50
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 173–198.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of respectability could privilege Puerto Ricans vis-à-vis Mexican American agricultural migrants in rural Michigan. Eileen J. Findlay is professor of history at American University. Her most recent publication on the history of Puerto Rico and its diaspora is We Are Left without a Father Here: Masculinity...
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You Can't Go to Town in a Bathtub: Automobile Movement and the Reorganization of Rural American Space, 1900–1930
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Radical History Review (1979) 1979 (21): 151–168.
Published: 01 October 1979
... increasingly
families traveling together rather than single male "tramps." Some of
these families had lost their land in the 1920s farm depression; others
had been industrial workers who were new to agricultural work.
Migrant families were predominantly white and native-born, and they
moved west...
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Cotton and Class in California
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Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (65): 148–151.
Published: 01 May 1996
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important in propelling the new migrants out of the fields than in
changing conditions there” (161). In the San Joaquin Valley, the
effect of New Deal policies was to shift the site of class conflict from
the fields to federal relief offices and legislative halls. New Deal
involvement in agriculture...
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Capturing Capitalism’s Work: Competing Photo-Narratives of the Bracero Program
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Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (132): 126–143.
Published: 01 October 2018
... Latin love for natural things.” 42 Welding migrants’ emotive displays to racialized ideas about Mexicans’ fitness for agricultural work, the photo-essay assures spectators that labor produced satisfied bracero subjects. In doing so, these images prevent viewers from seeing the taxing, physically...
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 1–11.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Puerto Ricans and treatment
of earlier European immigrants, and shows how gendered notions of respectability
privileged Puerto Ricans over Mexican American agricultural migrants to Michigan.
In the last feature article, “In Solidarity: Palestine in the Puerto Rican Political
Imaginary,” Sara...
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“Bad Future Things” and Liberatory Moments: Capitalism, Gender and the State in Botswana
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Radical History Review (2000) 2000 (76): 136–168.
Published: 01 January 2000
...~Girls and women continued
to have significant access to education as young men started to be drawn
and coerced into migrant labor with the discovery of diamonds in South
Africa in 1867 and gold in 1886.
Agricultural production and goat and cattle herding were organized
within patrilineal...
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One or Two Things I Know about Us: “Okies” in American Culture
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (59): 4–35.
Published: 01 May 1994
... of them settled in California, while most of the others moved
to Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. The best known
period of this trek westward is the period of the Dust Bow-the
1930s-when the majority of the migrants first camped, and then
settled mainly in the agricultural valleys...
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Ireland’s Commodity Frontiers: Rural Economy and Society in Global Perspective
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (143): 149–164.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Revolution ; MacRaild, Irish Migrants , 42–74 ; Kenny, American Irish . 29. See Fitzpatrick, “Emigration” ; and Kenny, “Irish Emigration.” 28. Dal Lago, American Slavery , 76–80, 105–6, 111–13 ; Regan and Smith, “Agricultural Modernisation,” 6–8 ; Kirchberger and Bennett...
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Of Oxford Bags and Twirling Canes: The State, Popular Responses, and Zulu Antimalaria Assistants in the Early-Twentieth-Century Zululand Malaria Campaigns
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Radical History Review (2001) 2001 (80): 76–100.
Published: 01 May 2001
...-
mercializing white agriculture and the actions of an increasingly interventionist state
combined with a public health crisis. At the local level, the Zulu, who were strug-
gling to lessen the impact of intensified South African state intervention in the rural
areas during...
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Musical Form and Social History: Research Perspectives on Black South African Music
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Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (46-47): 309–319.
Published: 01 May 1990
..., at Hugh Tracefs suggestion, con-
ducted research into Venda music in the 1950s. His writings, al-
though not neglecting the formal aspect, emphasize the social basis
of the various musical styles. He demonstrates, for example, how
the various agricultural phases of the year are accompanied...
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Where Blackness Resides: Afro-Bolivians and the Spatializing and Racializing of the African Diaspora
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (103): 105–116.
Published: 01 January 2009
... and nonblack Bolivians and in the marked scarcity of those constructions. Bolivians of African descent have been concentrated in this rural agricultural region for centuries. The area's historical and physical characteristics have long encouraged the notion that the Yungas is somehow the “closest thing...
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Urban Spaces and Working-Class Expressions across the Black Atlantic: Tracing the Routes of Ska
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Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (87): 183–206.
Published: 01 October 2003
... and tourist music trade, then by playing for
Eric Dean’s Jazz Orchestra in Kingston parks and concert halls.20
In the mid-1950s, however, American R&B began to flood Jamaica. It found
its way there in a number of ways, including purchases by labor migrants...
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The Jarring Irish: Postwar Immigration to the Heart of Empire
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (104): 103–125.
Published: 01 May 2009
...John Corbally In 1948, as citizens of Birmingham and London attempted to recover from the destructive effects of World War Two, they were perhaps unaware that another barrage was about to be unleashed upon them, this time in the shape of migrants rather than bombs. As commonwealth and Irish...
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History on the Periphery: Bernard Bailyn's Anglo-American Synthesis
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Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (48): 143–152.
Published: 01 October 1990
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These settlers generally ended in Pennsylvania and the Chesapeake region.
From Scotland and the north of Englad came farm families, prosperous
enough to pay their way to America but faced with displacement before the
modernization of agriculture. These migrants made for the frontiers of New
York...
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The Time of “Freedom”: San Marcos Coffee Workers and the Radicalization of the Guatemalan National Revolution, 1944–1954
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (58): 35–78.
Published: 01 January 1994
... agricultural wage from fifteen to eighty centavos, and to
enact the Agrarian Reform Law. This history defies the prevailing
image of peasant quiescence prior to the agrarian reform of 1952,
and contradicts the consensus that the revolution was in essence a
calm and stately affair until its final...
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Our Own Kind: Family and Community Networks
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Radical History Review (1978) 1978 (17): 99–120.
Published: 01 May 1978
... settlements
led to increasing subdivision of the land. Land
changed hands frequently and ownership, rental,
sharecropping, and wage labor were all comon.(4)
The small size of land plots in the south
limited the size of the agricultural work group to an
individual...
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Buthelezi, Inkatha, and the Problem of Ethnic Nationalism in South Africa
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Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (46-47): 397–406.
Published: 01 May 1990
... (the two go together due to the migrant labor system) although
there is substantial urban membership and most of its active mobilization
seems to involve urban men. Inkatha is overwhelmingly (95 percent) com-
prised of Zulu-speakers, nearly all of whom live in Natal/KwaZulu or as
migrant workers...
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Modern Puerto Rico: A First Reading List
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 13–25.
Published: 01 May 2017
... fluctuation. Rising migration
reflected economic conditions on both the island and the mainland. Many migrants
to the United States settled permanently in northeastern cities, while others traveled
as seasonal laborers to agricultural areas throughout the US mainland. Both groups
maintained...
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Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (135): 14–42.
Published: 01 October 2019
... and practice. It argues that the UNHCR Convention created a distinction between refugees and migrants that met challenges from sanctuary activists responding to the depredations of the US-backed “dirty wars” in Central America during the 1980s. The sanctuary movement contested this distinction, as did...
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Remembering Cesar
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (58): 142–150.
Published: 01 January 1994
... parents lost during the Great Depression. The family
then became migrant farmworkers, a way of life which is still one of
the harshest in the country. Of the over 2.25 million farmworkers
today, only one in five has some form of medical insurance, even
though agricultural labor remains America’s...
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