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How the Shopping Cart Explains Global Consumerism
Andrew Warnes
The invention and popularization of the shopping cart from the 1940s onward provided the final link in the chain for the new system of industrialized food flow, first in the United States and then around the world.
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King and the Other America
Sylvie Laurent
Martin Luther King Jr. was profoundly shaped by the idea that racial equality was embedded in the broader class struggle, leading to the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968, as much an interracial mass mobilization demanding redistribution as the culmination of King’s comprehension of the entanglement of class and race.
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An American Language
Rosina Lozano
This political history of the Spanish language in the United States examines how Spanish speakers and those opposed to its use clashed over its presence, and how the inclusion (or non-inclusion) of Spanish in various forums speaks to differing views of where the language belongs within state and national political discourse.
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The Global Edge
Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony
Miami has rapidly transformed into a global city over the last quarter of a century, and this case study looks at the cultural, economic, and political transformations of the city, as well as the social tensions and other consequences brough about by this development.
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