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Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line
(2022)Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924 recodified the state’s long-standing racial hierarchy as a more rigid Black-white binary. Then, Virginia officials asserted that no Virginia Indians could be other than legally Black, ... -
Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain: Networks, Power, and Everyday Life
(2022)On August 8, 1942, 302 people arrived by train at Vocation, Wyoming, to become the first Japanese American residents of what the U.S. government called the Relocation Center at Heart Mountain. In the following weeks and ... -
La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico
(2020-09)La Castañeda Insane Asylum is the first inside view of the workings of La Castañeda General Insane Asylum—a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican ... -
The Search for the First Americans: Science, Power, Politics
(2021)Who were the First Americans? Where did they come from? When did they get here? Are they the ancestors of modern Native Americans? These questions might seem straightforward, but scientists in competing fields have failed ...