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Authentic Assertions, Commercial Concessions: Race, Nation, and Popular Culture in Cuban New York City and Miami, 1940-1960.

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The article was published on 2012-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 49 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Miami & Popular culture.

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From Havana to Hollywood: Marco Rizo in the Cuban Diaspora

TL;DR: Rizo left the island in 1940 and established a prominent US career as a composer, conductor, and performer, and his compositions and arrangements established the perfect background setting for the romantic comedy, I Love Lucy, whose storyline revolved around the marriage of the American actress, Lucille Ball, and the Cuban musician Desi Arnaz as mentioned in this paper.
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A Review of “Invasion of the Mind Snatchers: Television's Conquest of America in the Fifties”

TL;DR: Television: it's everywhere. as discussed by the authors argues that Americans can watch television in the backseat of their minivans, on airplanes, at home and work, in some restaurants, and even on exercise equipment.
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Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

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Racial Formation in the United States

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TL;DR: The theory of race formation in the United States has been studied extensively in the literature, e.g., in this paper, with a focus on three categories of race: ethnicity, class, and nation.
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Publics and Counterpublics

TL;DR: The idea of a public is one of the central fictions of modern life as mentioned in this paper, and it has powerful implications for how our social world takes shape, and much of modern lives involves struggles over the nature of publics and their interrelations.

From immigrant to transmigrant : Theorizing transnational migration

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use their own studies of migration from Haiti, St Vincent, Grenada and the Philippines to the United States to delineate some of the parameters of an ethnography of transnational migration and explore the reasons for and the implications of trans-national migrations.