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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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The Commercial Rumba: Afrocuban Arts as International Popular Culture

TL;DR: Les Blancs se sont approprie et ont readapte cette musique noire en fonction de leur gout as discussed by the authors. But le Noir continua a subir le racisme, la segregation and l'injustice sociale.
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The Cuban Democratic Experience: The Auténtico Years, 1944-1952

TL;DR: An examination of a rare period of democracy and freedom of expression in Cuba's history can be found in this paper, where Ameringer argues that the administrations of Ramon Grau San Martin and Carlos Prio Socarras lost the respect of the Cuban people despite major reforms and allowed the opportunistic Batista to regain power.
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More than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa

TL;DR: More than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa as mentioned in this paper, by Susan D. Greenbaum et al. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. 383 pp.
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Cronistas and Satire in Early Twentieth Century Hispanic Newspapers

TL;DR: For example, Park observed that immigrants read more in the United States than in their lands of origin, for a variety of reasons: the press was not available back home or it was restricted, "there is more going on or they need to know" and "news is a kind of urgent information that men use in making adjustments to a new environment, in changing old habits, and in forming new opinions" (9). He further stated, "The very helplessness of the immigrant... is a measure of the novelty of the American environment and the immigrant's lack of adjustment to