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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
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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
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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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Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
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