Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States; The Temple and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman; From Broadway to Cleveland: A History of the Hanna Theatre

History of African Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots by Thomas J. Davis chronicles the remarkable past of African Americans from the earliest arrival of their ancestors to the election of President Barack Obama. This work was produced to recognize every triumph and tragedy that separates African Americans as a group from others in America. By distinguishing the rich and unique history of African Americans, History of African Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots provides an account of inspiration, courage, and progress. Each chapter details a significant piece of African American history, and the book includes numerous concise portraits of prominent African Americans and their contributions to progressing social life in the United States.

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Introduction

Our Most Troubling Madness ◽

10.1525/california/9780520291089.003.0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

T. M. Luhrmann

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Social Conditions ◽

Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽

Ethnic Density ◽

Cultural Interpretation ◽

Lower Socioeconomic ◽

The Social ◽

The Family ◽

History Of

The introduction lays out what we know about the social context of schizophrenia from the epidemiological literature: that risk of schizophrenia is particularly high for immigrants from predominantly dark-skinned countries to Europe; that risk increases with lower socioeconomic status at birth and even at parent’s birth; that risk increases with urban dwelling and seems to increase the longer time is spent in cities; that risk increases as ethnic density in the neighborhood declines. The chapter presents a history of the way schizophrenia has been understood in the United States, and the diagnostic complexities of serious psychotic disorder. It then discusses what ethnographers have observed so far about the social conditions which may shape the experience of psychosis: the local cultural interpretation of mental illness; the role and presence of the family; the structure of work; and the basic social environment. This becomes the ground for our case studies.

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Introduction

Southern White Ministers and the Civil Rights Movement ◽

10.14325/mississippi/9781496817525.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 3-10

Author(s):

Elaine Allen Lechtreck

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

African American ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Civil Rights Movement ◽

The United States ◽

Social Gospel ◽

Southern States ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

Martin Luther King

The introduction includes Bible verses cited by ministers to defend segregation and verses to oppose segregation. There are slices of the history of the United States, the Civil Rights Movement, and African American history. The southern states, where white ministers confronted segregation, are identified. The term “minister” is explained as well as the variety of labels given these ministers ranging from “Liberal,” Progressive,” “Neo-Orthodox,” “Evangelical Liberal,” “open conservative,” ‘Last Hurrah of the Social Gospel Movement” to “Trouble Maker,” “Traitor, “ “Atheist,” “Communist,” “N_____ Lover.” Rachel Henderlite, the only woman minister mentioned in the book, is identified. Synopses of the book’s seven chapters are included. Comments by historians David Chappell, Charles Reagan Wilson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernest Campbell, and Thomas Pettigrew are cited.

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A Brief History of Central America

10.1093/oso/9780197624913.003.0011 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 173-180

Author(s):

Rachel Gibson

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Central America ◽

The United States ◽

Central Americans ◽

Family Stories ◽

The Social ◽

Current Events ◽

History Of

The history of Central America directly impacts current events, and exploring the social, political, and economic reasons why Guatemalans and other Central Americans emigrate to the United States deepens our connections to family stories and legacies. This chapter offers a brief overview of the region....

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Beyond quarantine: a history of leprosy in Puerto Rico, 1898-1930s

História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos ◽

10.1590/s0104-59702003000400011 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 10 (suppl 1) ◽

pp. 225-245 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Julie H. Levison

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

United States ◽

Puerto Rico ◽

Social History ◽

The United States ◽

Primary Sources ◽

Political Events ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

The Individual

From biblical times to the modern period, leprosy has been a disease associated with stigma. This mark of disgrace, physically present in the sufferers' sores and disfigured limbs, and embodied in the identity of a 'leper', has cast leprosy into the shadows of society. This paper draws on primary sources, written in Spanish, to reconstruct the social history of leprosy in Puerto Rico when the United States annexed this island in 1898. The public health policies that developed over the period of 1898 to the 1930s were unique to Puerto Rico because of the interplay between political events, scientific developments and popular concerns. Puerto Rico was influenced by the United States' priorities for public health, and the leprosy control policies that developed were superimposed on vestiges of the colonial Spanish public health system. During the United States' initial occupation, extreme segregation sacrificed the individual rights and liberties of these patients for the benefit of society. The lives of these leprosy sufferers were irrevocably changed as a result.

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