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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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To Be Mayor of New York: Ethnic Politics in the City.

TL;DR: McNickle as discussed by the authors traces the effect of the arrival of large numbers of Jewish and Italian immigrants on the Irish-dominated political machine and examines mayoral campaigns between 1945, the end of the LaGuardia era and 1989, during which the Irish receded and Jews and later African-Americans emerged as the most important ethnic groups in local politics.
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Cuban Fire: The Story of Salsa and Latin Jazz

TL;DR: O'Farrill, Oscar Iopez, Joe Cuba, Rembert Egues, Don Barreto, Chocolate Armenteros as discussed by the authors discussed the evolution of Charangas, the modernization of the son, and big bands, Combos and Descargas.
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Speaking for themselves: Neomexicano cultural identity and the Spanish-language press, 1880-1920

TL;DR: In undergoing this life, many people always try to do and get the best. as discussed by the authors But many people sometimes feel confused to get those things, feeling the limited of experience and sources to be better is one of the lacks to own.