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Book Synopsis Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico by : Robert Buffington
Download or read book Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico written by Robert Buffington and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico explores elite notions of crime and criminality from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. In Mexico these notions represented contested areas of the social terrain, places where generalized ideas about criminality transcended the individual criminal act to intersect with larger issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality. It was at this intersection that modern Mexican society bared its soul. Attitudes toward race amalgamation and indios, lower-class lifestyles and läperos, women and sexual deviance, all influenced perceptions of criminality and ultimately determined the fundamental issue of citizenship: who belonged and who did not. The liberal discourse of toleration and human rights, the positivist discourse of order and progress, the revolutionary discourse of social justice and integration sought in turn to disguise the exclusions of modern Mexican society behind a veil of criminality?to proscribe as criminal those activities that criminologists, penologists, and anthropologists clearly linked to marginalized social groups. This book attempts to lift that veil and to gaze, like Josä Guadalupe Posada, at the grinning calavera that it shields.
Download or read book Crafting Mexico written by Rick A. López and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Mexico’s revolution of 1910–1920, intellectuals sought to forge a unified cultural nation out of the country’s diverse populace. Their efforts resulted in an “ethnicized” interpretation of Mexicanness that intentionally incorporated elements of folk and indigenous culture. In this rich history, Rick A. López explains how thinkers and artists, including the anthropologist Manuel Gamio, the composer Carlos Chávez, the educator Moisés Sáenz, the painter Diego Rivera, and many less-known figures, formulated and promoted a notion of nationhood in which previously denigrated vernacular arts—dance, music, and handicrafts such as textiles, basketry, ceramics, wooden toys, and ritual masks—came to be seen as symbolic of Mexico’s modernity and national distinctiveness. López examines how the nationalist project intersected with transnational intellectual and artistic currents, as well as how it was adapted in rural communities. He provides an in-depth account of artisanal practices in the village of Olinalá, located in the mountainous southern state of Guerrero. Since the 1920s, Olinalá has been renowned for its lacquered boxes and gourds, which have been considered to be among the “most Mexican” of the nation’s arts. Crafting Mexico illuminates the role of cultural politics and visual production in Mexico’s transformation from a regionally and culturally fragmented country into a modern nation-state with an inclusive and compelling national identity.
Download or read book Race and Nation written by Paul Spickard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and Nation is the first book to rigorously compare the various racial and ethnic systems that have developed around the world. The contributors have honed their research and expertise to produce definitive questions in the field, and these.
Book Synopsis Tarascan Pottery Production in Michoacán, Mexico by : Eduardo Williams
Download or read book Tarascan Pottery Production in Michoacán, Mexico written by Eduardo Williams and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a contemporary pottery tradition in Mesoamerica, but also looks back to the earliest examples of cultural development in this area. By means of ethnographic analogy and ceramic ecology, this study seeks to shed light on a modern indigenous community and on the theory, method and practice of ethnoarchaeology.
Book Synopsis History, Imperialism, Critique by : Asher Ghaffar
Download or read book History, Imperialism, Critique written by Asher Ghaffar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines anti-imperialist thought in European philosophy. It features an international group of both emerging and established scholars who directly respond to Timothy Brennan’s far-reaching call to rethink intellectual histories, literary histories, and the reading habits of postcolonialism, in relation to the anti-imperialist tradition of critique. Each contributor rethinks postcolonial and world literature, Continental thought, and intellectual history in relation to anti-imperialist histories and traditions of critique, through geographically diverse analysis. This book provides a forum for the next generation of scholars to draw on and engage with the marginal yet influential work of the first generation of dissidents within postcolonial studies. It will appeal to researchers and students in the field of postcolonial studies, world literature, geography, and Continental thought.
Book Synopsis Deference and Defiance in Monterrey by : Michael Snodgrass
Download or read book Deference and Defiance in Monterrey written by Michael Snodgrass and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how workers both perceived, responded to and helped shape the outcome of Mexico's revolution.
Book Synopsis Disenchanting Citizenship by : Luis F. B. Plascencia
Download or read book Disenchanting Citizenship written by Luis F. B. Plascencia and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to contemporary debates in the United States on migration and migrant policy is the idea of citizenship, and—as apparent in the continued debate over Arizona’s immigration law SB 1070—this issue remains a focal point of contention, with a key concern being whether there should be a path to citizenship for “undocumented” migrants. In Disenchanting Citizenship, Luis F. B. Plascencia examines two interrelated issues: U.S. citizenship and the Mexican migrants’ position in the United States. The book explores the meaning of U.S. citizenship through the experience of a unique group of Mexican migrants who were granted Temporary Status under the “legalization” provisions of the 1986 IRCA, attained Lawful Permanent Residency, and later became U.S. citizens. Plascencia integrates an extensive and multifaceted collection of interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, ethno-historical research, and public policy analysis in examining efforts that promote the acquisition of citizenship, the teaching of citizenship classes, and naturalization ceremonies. Ultimately, he unearths citizenship’s root as a Janus-faced construct that encompasses a simultaneous process of inclusion and exclusion. This notion of citizenship is mapped on to the migrant experience, arguing that the acquisition of citizenship can lead to disenchantment with the very status desired. In the end, Plascencia expands our understanding of the dynamics of U.S. citizenship as a form of membership and belonging.
Book Synopsis Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico by : Michael Werner
Download or read book Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico written by Michael Werner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Fatherland written by Robert Harris and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1993 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would have happened if Hitler had won World War II?
Book Synopsis The Lettered Indian by : Brooke Larson
Download or read book The Lettered Indian written by Brooke Larson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing into dialogue the fields of social history, Andean ethnography, and postcolonial theory, The Lettered Indian maps the moral dilemmas and political stakes involved in the protracted struggle over Indian literacy and schooling in the Bolivian Andes. Brooke Larson traces Bolivia’s major state efforts to educate its unruly Indigenous masses at key junctures in the twentieth century. While much scholarship has focused on “the Indian boarding school” and other Western schemes of racial assimilation, Larson interweaves state-centered and imperial episodes of Indigenous education reform with vivid ethnographies of Aymara peasant protagonists and their extraordinary pro-school initiatives. Exploring the field of vernacular literacy practices and peasant political activism, she examines the transformation of the rural “alphabet school” from an instrument of the civilizing state into a tool of Aymara cultural power, collective representation, and rebel activism. From the metaphorical threshold of the rural school, Larson rethinks the politics of race and indigeneity, nation and empire, in postcolonial Bolivia and beyond.
Author :Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia. International Conference Publisher :LIT Verlag Münster ISBN 13 :9783825898878 Total Pages :578 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (988 download)
Book Synopsis Eighteenth-century Russia by : Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia. International Conference
Download or read book Eighteenth-century Russia written by Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia. International Conference and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together forty papers from the Study Group's very successful international conference held in Wittenberg in 2004. The contributors include scholars from Russia, Britain, Germany, Italy and the US: papers are written in English and in Russian. Topics range widely over the life of the Empire and its emerging modern society, institutions and discourses. The volume brings together new research on literature and its social context, on cultural models and reception, on social groups and individuals, on history, law and economy: it offers an exciting interdisciplinary insight into Imperial Russia in the 'long' eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts by : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Download or read book Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Central American Writers of West Indian Origin by : Ian Smart
Download or read book Central American Writers of West Indian Origin written by Ian Smart and published by Washington, D.C. : Three Continents. This book was released on 1984 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length analysis of the emerging literature written in Spanish by contemporary Central Americans whose grandparents came from the largely English-speaking islands of the Caribbean.
Book Synopsis Music of Latin America and the Caribbean by : Mark Brill
Download or read book Music of Latin America and the Caribbean written by Mark Brill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music of Latin America and the Caribbean, Second Edition is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduate students, which covers all major facets of Latin American music, finding a balance between important themes and illustrative examples. This book is about enjoying the music itself and provides a lively, challenging discussion complemented by stimulating musical examples couched in an appropriate cultural and historical context—the music is a specific response to the era from which it emerges, evolving from common roots to a wide variety of musical traditions. Music of Latin America and the Caribbean aims to develop an understanding of Latin American civilization and its relation to other cultures. NEW to this edition A new chapter overviewing all seven Central American countries An expansion of the chapter on the English- and French-speaking Caribbean An added chapter on transnational genres An end-of-book glossary featuring bolded terms within the text A companion website with over 50 streamed or linked audio tracks keyed to Listening Examples found in the text, in addition to other student and instructors’ resources Bibliographic suggestions at the end of each chapter, highlighting resources for further reading, listening, and viewing Organized along thematic, historical, and geographical lines, Music of Latin America and the Caribbean implores students to appreciate the unique and varied contributions of other cultures while realizing the ways non-Western cultures have influenced Western musical heritage. With focused discussions on genres and styles, musical instruments, important rituals, and the composers and performers responsible for its evolution, the author employs a broad view of Latin American music: every country in Latin America and the Caribbean shares a common history, and thus, a similar musical tradition.
Download or read book Mestizo Modernism written by Tace Hedrick and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on four key artists who represent Latin-American modernism: Cesar Vallejo; Gabriela Mistral; Diego Rivera; and Frida Kahlo, Tace Hendrick examines what being 'modern' and 'American' meant for them and illuminates the cultural contexts within which they worked.
Book Synopsis The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic, from the Captains General to General Trujillo by : Valentina Peguero
Download or read book The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic, from the Captains General to General Trujillo written by Valentina Peguero and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the interaction of the military & the civilian population, showing the many ways in which the military ethos has permeated Dominican culture.
Book Synopsis Ignorance is the Enemy, the Autobiography of Michael J. Organek by : Michael J. Organek
Download or read book Ignorance is the Enemy, the Autobiography of Michael J. Organek written by Michael J. Organek and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: