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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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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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Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race

TL;DR: In this article, the history of relationships within and between different groups in the United States, and the complexities of those relations are explored, including gender, sexuality, religion, nation, and class.
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Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America.@@@Fashioning the Feminine: Girls, Popular Culture and Schooling.

TL;DR: Gross as mentioned in this paper argues that the modern plunderers are not anomalies but are the legitimate descendants of the financiers who organized Lowell and the Boott and turns a study of a defunct textile corporation into a condemnation of economic practices and theories that are widely accepted today and are inherent in the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century

TL;DR: In this article, the authors implicitly ask communication theorists and critics to read important poets and novelists, not just in the sense of reading more, but by reading more alertly, and they call us to glimpse connections across terrains of knowing, to build our own lessons from them, to confirm others' concrete presence even as we must stand up to them, and to recognize deeper and more organic links.
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Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898

TL;DR: Ferrer as discussed by the authors examines the role of black and mulatto Cubans in nationalist insurgency from 1868, when a slaveholder began the revolution by freeing his slaves, until the intervention of racially segregated American forces in 1898.
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Merengue : Dominican Music and Dominican Identity

TL;DR: The history of Merengue can be traced back to 1854-1961, and the contemporary era from 1961-1995 can be found in this article, with a focus on the transnational community.
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Is everywhere nowhere? nomads, nations, and the immigrant paradigm of United States history.

TL;DR: The migrants I have studied from Italy and Sicily were mobile people for whom migration was more often a way of life than a moment of transition from one national identity to another.
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Puerto Ricans: Born in the U.S.A.

TL;DR: The Menudo Phenomenon: An Unwritten History as discussed by the authors is an unwritten history of the menudo phenomenon in the South Bronx neighborhood of New York City, which dates back to the early 1800s.
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Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo

Ned Sublette
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the Cowboy Codes: Straight & Pure & All Boy When We were Young: Nostalgia & the Cowboy Hero Arms & the Man: The Friendly Gun Give Me My Boots & Saddles: Camp Cowboy Tall in the Saddle: Romance on the Range White Hats & White Heroes: Who Is That Other Guy? Virgin Land: Landscape, Nature, & Masculinity Corporate Cowboys & the Shaping of a Nation Postscript - The Frontiersman (1938) List of Films Mentioned References Index.