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Authentic Assertions, Commercial Concessions: Race, Nation, and Popular Culture in Cuban New York City and Miami, 1940-1960.
01 Jan 2012-
About: 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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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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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.
Abstract: MC 281 is the second in the required sophomore sequence for Social Relations and Policy. In this course, we will explore the interactions and experiences between and among various groups in American history. We will consider how Americans both defended and contested prevailing definitions of fitness for citizenship and inclusion in the political process and American life, and how groups sought to gain access to social and political equality. This course focuses on the history of relationships within and between different groups in the United States, and explores the complexities of those relations. Rarely centered solely on race or ethnicity, such interactions were also affected by gender, sexuality, religion, nation, and class. We will also explore the shifting definitions of race and ethnicity. Students will analyze not only the experiences of the different groups, but also the connections between them to assess the larger dynamics and their implications for public policy.
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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.
Abstract: parative advantage. The work would also be stronger if the author could provide more detail as to how profitable the Boott was and where the profits were re-invested; Gross makes it clear that profits were not plowed back into the mill. It is probable that the figures are simply not available but, if they could be presented, they would make a strong case even more convincing. In his postscript Gross draws parallels between modern entrepreneurs, who are often criticized for \"being devoted to the production of profits, not of goods\" (p. 242), and the owners of the Boott. He argues that the modern \"plunderers\" are not anomalies but are the legitimate descendants of the financiers who organized Lowell and the Boott. In short, Gross 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. How his thesis will be received and incorporated into the interpretation of Lowell is an interesting question.
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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.
Abstract: brings rigorous and first-rate intellects into my life and dares me to be a better and more versatile reader. More specifically, these works 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. 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. Moreover, consistent with a concrete philosophy of dialogue, they each ask readers to respond, despite the clutter and ill-formed meanings of our own lives. I look at my messy desk, and know I have time for that.
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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.
Abstract: In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This book tells the story of the thirty-year unfolding and undoing of that movement. Ada Ferrer examines the participation 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. In so doing, she uncovers the struggles over the boundaries of citizenship and nationality that their participation brought to the fore, and she shows that even as black participation helped sustain the movement ideologically and militarily, it simultaneously prompted accusations of race war and fed the forces of counterinsurgency. Carefully examining the tensions between racism and antiracism contained within Cuban nationalism, Ferrer paints a dynamic portrait of a movement built upon the coexistence of an ideology of racial fraternity and the persistence of presumptions of hierarchy. |Examines the tensions between racism and anti-racism in Cuba's struggle to become a nation between 1868 and 1898.
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Abstract: Prologue With Albemarle to Havana, 1762 * The English Expedition * The Spanish Colony * Sugar and Society * The Victors and the Creoles The Great Leap Forward, 1763-1825 * Enter North America * The Challenge of Haiti * Rebellion in South America * The Ever-Faithful Isle The Golden Age, 1825-68 * The World of Sugar * Coffee * The Planters * The Slave Merchants * The Slaves * The Decade of Slavery The Political Struggle, 1823-98 * Captains-General in Search of Wealth * The Politics of Abolitionism * Mainfest Destiny * Annexationism * Reformism * The War of 1868:I * The War of 1868: II * The Spanish Counter-Revolution * The Sugar Crisis of the 1880s * The End of Slavery * Jos Mart * The New America * The War of 1895 * General Weyler * Cuba and U.S. Public Opinion * The Maine * McKinley and the War * The Spanish-American War * San Juan Hill and Santiago * End of Empire From Occupation to Occupation * Cuba Prostrate * The Proconsuls, I: General Brooke * The Proconsuls, II: General Wood * The U.S. Stake in Cuba, 1899-1902 * Don Toms * The Second Intervention: Magoon The Young Republic, 1909-32 * Cuba in 1909 * Gmez and the Good Life * The Negro Project * Menocal * Sugar, 1906-20 * The Dance of the Millions * The Sugar Troubles of the 1920s * Zayas * Machado: I * Machado: II The Revolution of 1933 * Summer Welles * The Fall of Machado * The Middle-Class Government * The Sergeants Revolution * Graus Girondin Revolution * The Battle of the Hotel Nacional * The November Revolt * The Counter-Revolution The Age of Democracy, 1934-52 * Batista and the Puppet President * Batista and the Communists * The Constitution of 1940 * Batista: The Democratic President * Grau * Pro el Presidente de la Cordialidad * The Fall of Pro The Struggle, 1952-9 * Batista: II * Fidel Castro: Childhood and Youth * Moncada: the Idea * Moncada: the Fight * Indian Summer * The Civic Dialogue * Castro in Mexico * The Gramma and the Sierra * Herbert Matthews goes to the Sierra * The Attack on the Palace * War in the Sierra (March-May 1957) * The U.S. enters the Controversy * Miami and Santiago * The Naval Mutiny at Cienfuegos * The Arms Embargo * The Strike of 9 April * Batistas Big Push of May 1958 * The Collapse LIllusion Lyrique, 1959 * Springs of Victory * Castro and the Americas in 1959 * LIllusion Lyrique * First Shadows Old Cuba at Sunset * The Island * The Class Structure of Cuba * Black Cuba * The Church * Education * Sugar * Tobacco and other Industries * The Economy: Labour * The Economy: the Central Neurosis The Clash, 1959-62 * Castro in America * Agrarian reform: Politics and Crisis * The Eclipse of the Liberals * A Sword is Drawn * The End of Capitalist Cuba * The U.S. Prepares for Battle * Cuba Socialista: I * Cuba Socialista: II * Battle of Cochinos Bay * Between the Crises * The Missile Crisis: I * The Missile Crisis: II * The Missile Crisis: III Epilogue * The Utopians * The Ten Million Ton Harvest and its Implications * The New Men * The Guardians * New Friends and Old * The Pursuit of Freedom Appendices * The Cuban Oligarchy * Cuban Governors and Presidents * Who were the Cuban Indians? * Kennions Slave Concession * Estimated Cuban Slave Imports * Outfit of a Slave Ship, 1825 * Slave Ships from Havana, 1825 * Affidavit of Lieutenant Nott * Chinese Imports to Cuba, 1847-73 * The Last Slave Journey across the Atlantic, 1865 * The Attack on Moncada and Bayamo * The State of Agriculture in 1959 * Cuban and World Sugar Production, 1770-1970 * World Raw Sugar Prices, 1900-1962
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TL;DR: The history of US/Central American relations, explaining why these countries have remained so overpopulated, illiterate and violent, and why US government notions of economic and military security combine to keep in place a system of Central American dependency as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: This book explains the history of US/Central American relations, explaining why these countries have remained so overpopulated, illiterate and violent; and why US government notions of economic and military security combine to keep in place a system of Central American dependency. This second edition is updated to include new material covering the Reagan and Bush years, and the Iran/Contra affair.
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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.
Abstract: parative advantage. The work would also be stronger if the author could provide more detail as to how profitable the Boott was and where the profits were re-invested; Gross makes it clear that profits were not plowed back into the mill. It is probable that the figures are simply not available but, if they could be presented, they would make a strong case even more convincing. In his postscript Gross draws parallels between modern entrepreneurs, who are often criticized for \"being devoted to the production of profits, not of goods\" (p. 242), and the owners of the Boott. He argues that the modern \"plunderers\" are not anomalies but are the legitimate descendants of the financiers who organized Lowell and the Boott. In short, Gross 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. How his thesis will be received and incorporated into the interpretation of Lowell is an interesting question.
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