American Imperialism and the State, 1893–1921

Moore, Colin D.

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“…It should be noted that the respondents in the study area combined plant parts from different plant species. The finding is consistent with other studies done in the same region [11,27], where a mixture of plant parts was used in the treatment of human and animal diseases. Mainly, combinations are used to increase efficiency.…”

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“…The high flora diversity has led to the discovery of many medicinal plants in the country [10]. According to a study [11], 90 % of the Kenyan population have used herbal medicine at one point in their lives, while more than 70 % of the population uses homemade herbal preparations for their primary healthcare. The herbalists pass the ethnobotanical information to close family members.…”

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Since long time ago, humans have used medicinal plants. Currently, many of the contemporary drugs can be traced to plant origins. Human activities such as deforestation and farming risk the availability of medicinal plants of medical importance; therefore, there is a need to document knowledge and information on these plants. Structured questionnaires, which involved oral interviews and discussions, were used to gather information from the 35 selected herbalists. The information on every medicinal plant used in the treatment of human diseases was documented. A total of 26 medicinal plants were recorded with trees (38.5%), herbs (30.8%), shrubs (26.9%), and climbers (3.8%). The plant parts were either used singly or in combination. The mixture of leaves, roots, and barks were the most preferred combination by 77.1%, followed by barks and roots by 57.1%, and leaves and barks by 11.4%. The diseases treated were gastrointestinal ailments by 97.1%, while skin and respiratory were 80% each. Boiling was the most preferred method of preparation (58%), followed by burning to ashes (28%), boiling (12%), and raw (2%). Oral administration was the most preferred method (63%), followed by swabs (24%), and inhalation (13%). The medicinal plant's primary source was Cherangani forest (91.4%), although some herbalists had also domesticated some medicinal plants (8.6%). The study provides information on medicinal plants used by herbalists in the Marakwet community, which be used in investigating potential active compounds in the documented medicinal plants for the development of crude drugs.

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“…While there has undeniably been a transition in American domestic policy since the New Deal (Mead 1997;Soss et al 2011), there is nothing novel about attempts to reform poor people-particularly poor minorities-as a condition of receiving aid and the equal rights of citizenship (Muhammad 2011). Such logics not only motivated much of progressive era aid (Patterson 1981;Vale 2000), but also provided the backbone for the colonialist system of exploitation (Moore 2017). Mary Jackman's canonical…”

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Landlord Paternalism: Housing the Poor with a Velvet Glove

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2020

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Private landlords play an important role in America’s poverty governance, with profound effects on poor families and neighborhoods. Drawing on data from interviews with 127 landlords in Baltimore, Dallas, and Cleveland, we ask how landlords understand their role as purveyors of affordable housing. We find that landlords think about their tenants in moral terms, drawing upon cultural categories to describe and define their tenants. Landlords see renting to the urban poor as a social good insofar as it facilitates housing those in need on the condition of their moral reform. We identify two components of this strategy: exclusion and reform. Landlords pursue profit through exclusionary tactics such as screening and eviction. While recent research has focused on this component, this article explores how landlords also invest resources in “training” tenants, attempting to mold them into a profitable ideal, rather than replacing them. Using both incentives and surveillance, landlords seek to create a tenant class that conforms to mainstream notions of responsibility and self-reliance. We argue that exclusion and reform are complementary components of paternalistic poverty governance. Landlord paternalism carries special salience in today’s increasingly privatized federal housing policy, where landlords have a great deal of discretion and little oversight.

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“…. For literature on the development and motivations that shaped US imperialism in the latter half of nineteenth century, seeMcCormick (1990),Hoganson (1998), LaFeber (1998),Love (2004),Go (2011Go ( , 2014,Moore (2017), andErman (2019).5. Organic acts create governments for unincorporated territories and usually include a local constitution.…”

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Popular Constitutionalism in the US Empire: The Legal History of US Citizenship in Guam

Dardani¹

2023

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This article presents a legal history of US citizenship in Guam. I argue that members of Guam’s Congress mobilizing for US citizenship in the 1930s and in the immediate aftermath of World War II offer a powerful and instructive example of popular constitutionalism, or the interactive, extrajudicial process that generates constitutional meaning. Guamanians made constitutional claims to US naval leaders and lawmakers, arguing that colonized people living in the US empire should be US citizens despite ambiguous Supreme Court precedents in the Insular Cases, congressional inaction, and naval obstruction. Guamanians interpreted the Constitution in a way that pressured and influenced naval leaders to support and US lawmakers to ultimately enact legislation that extended citizenship to Guam. This legal history demonstrates the complexity of popular constitutionalism within the context of US empire. By claiming that they should be considered US citizens after the United States formally annexed Guam after the Spanish-American War, Guamanians drew on the Constitution to demand equality, dignity, and full inclusion in the US polity for colonized people. US naval leaders and lawmakers turned this egalitarian reading of the Constitution to their own strategic advantage, however, deploying it as a valuable piece of Cold War propaganda. This article thus provides a useful example of the ideological indeterminacy of popular constitutionalism. The Constitution can be interpreted by marginalized populations to demand equality and inclusion. But the Constitution can also be interpreted by the military and congressional leaders of a global empire to maintain systems of power, oppression, and subordination.

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American Imperialism and the State, 1893–1921

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