...of the “welfare queen.” As one investigation put it, In the popular imagination, the stereotype of the “welfare queen” is thoroughly raced—she’s an indolent black woman, living off the largesse...
...workers face the prospect of losing all that they had gained through years of working at sea. Phoebe, a former gaming supervisor in her cruise ship’s casino, had resorted to...
...capability on the part of private actors. Las Vegas’s City Center, a privately-owned shopping-center, hotel and casino complex, is not the first development of its kind, but its pretensions to...
...1060–70; Randy W. Widdis, With Scarcely a Ripple: Anglo-Canadian Migration into the United States and Western Canada, 1880–1920 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill–Queen’s University Press, 1998). The close relationship between the...
...Acker, 2003). Karugire, Samwiri Rubaraza (1980). A Political History of Uganda (Exeter, New Hampshire: Heinemann Educational Books). Kasozi A.B.K (1995). The Social Origins of Violence in Uganda, 1964-1985 (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s...
...a government they believed colluded with these “money takers” while hardworking taxpayers like them struggled just to get by. Echoing longstanding, racially coded conservative tropes such as the “welfare queen,”...
...replied at once: ‘When they are told it was given by Paora Tuhnere to a big Sea Chief sent out to us by our “Great Mother” the Queen they will...
...Quimbaya collection held in Madrid,16An ensemble of more than 120 funerary objects in gold from the Quimbaya culture, the collection was gifted by Colombian President Holguín to the Queen of...
...facing Germany since World War II. In Britain, Queen Elizabeth evoked a wartime ethos when she addressed the nation, quoting the lyrics of the 1939 song “We’ll Meet Again” made...
