The cover of Leonard Leslie Brookeâs Ring Oâ Roses shows nursery rhyme characters performing âRing Around the Rosie.â The book was first published in 1922 and the image is therefore in the public domain.
In a new book, Victor Rios describes how rogue cops and harried school officials push some young blacks and Latinos into deeper trouble. In a new book, Victor Rios describes how rogue cops and harried school officials push some young blacks and Latinos into deeper trouble.
Standing on the balcony of the presidential residence, Casa Rosada, Eva Peron would address the crowds below as los descamisados, or the shirtless ones. That slang term for the working class used to be an insult wielded by opposition political parties, but the die-hard Peronists reclaimed it as a symbol of labor pride [source: Fraser and Navarro].