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The Mexican has a country
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Margarita Aragon
Published: 01 February 2021
...This chapter examines U.S. and Mexican discourses of race and nation in the aftermath of the lynching of Antonio Rodriguez, a Mexican national, in Rock Springs, Texas. As writers and demonstrators in Mexico denounced the murder, they highlighted the fact that lynching was a practice Americans...
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Insurrection as a post-millennial, clandestine, network of cells
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Michael Loadenthal
Published: 30 August 2017
... of a militant social movement that is still in its formative stage. This is done through an investigation of the wider movement’ three most identifiable components: the Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire (CCF), and emergent networks in Mexico such as the Práxedis G. Guerrero...
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Published: 18 July 2023
... administrators of charity foundlings healthcare hospitals loans Mexico negotiations orphans orphanages Spain theatre Valladolid wet nurses women begging Calvin John children confraternities Council of Trent Covarrubias deserving vs undeserving poor expulsion festivals food foreign poor...
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Imagining slaves and sovereigns
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Margarita Aragon
Published: 01 February 2021
... will begin to examine here, in African Americans’ anti-lynching activism and the Mexican anarchist movement in the borderlands. I will pay particular attention to how the history of slavery in the Americas shaped constructions of gender, race and historical struggle. London Jack manhood Mexico Dixon...
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Texas: the big adventure
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Henry A. McGhie
Published: 12 December 2017
... months in Texas and Mexico, when he had a number of extraordinary adventures. Dresser narrowly escaped being killed a number of times and his business situation was often precarious. In San Antonio he lived with Adolphus Heermann, a well-known ornithologist. In between his difficulties, Dresser built...
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University–community outreach: case study of the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs
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Norman Walzer and Christopher D. Merrett
Published: 01 December 2014
...This chapter suggests the need for strategizing environmental engagement within our institutions of higher education and provides an example of such measurement in Chiapas, Mexico. The inclusion of organizational and financial
goals, as well as, provision of an organizational structure...
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Money
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Ian Scott and Henry Thompson
Published: 01 September 2016
... American exceptionalism American Century Luce Henry Stone money deregulation Gekko Mexico California In Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps , the banks have taken over Gekko’s job. I was shocked when I went back to this in 2010. In Wall Street , Gekko had been...
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Vaccine production, national security anxieties and the unstable state in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico
Ana María Carrillo
Published: 16 April 2017
... This chapter deals with the development and production of vaccines in Mexico from the last third of the nineteenth century to 1989, when the erosion of this sector began. Along with discussing Mexican’s physicians’ reception of discoveries in microbiology and immunology, it points out...
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Perdita Durango (1997): the body, sex and Mexico
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Peter Buse and others
Published: 31 March 2007
... nor beauty. In the film, the two leads embody a traditional form of wish fulfilment for the spectator, sexual potency and mastery of the world around them. Perdita can be considered as a ferocious parody of timeworn American ideologies about the pleasures of Mexico. It may not say...