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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.read more
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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
Jules R. Benjamin,Ada Ferrer +1 more
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 Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba
TL;DR: Guerra's book The Myth of Jose Marti: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba as mentioned in this paper explores how Marti's image was adapted by disparate segments of Cuban society over the first quarter century of Cuban independence.
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Celebrity, "Crossover," and Cubanidad: Celia Cruz as "La Reina de Salsa," 1971-2003
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that Celia both manufactured and resisted her popularity with a mainstream audience, demonstrating that "crossing over" does not necessitate a shift from the margin to mainstream but may also represent a shift between one sort of margin to another.
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Laughs, Luck...and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time
TL;DR: The man Lucille Ball called "the brains" of "I Love Lucy" gives us an inside view of television history as it was being made as discussed by the authors. But it is difficult to find a copy of this book.
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The Cuban-American Political Machine: Reflections on Its Origins and Perpetuation
TL;DR: The response of Cuban exiles in that city to attempts by the native Anglo population and its leaders to deal with newcomers and, as it were, "show them their place" in America's ethnic hierarchy.