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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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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: A crash course on Hollywood's Latino Imagery can be found in this article, where Rodriguez's Bedhead (1990) and El Mariachi (1993) are cited as two examples.
Abstract: Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Theory 1. Categorizing the Other: Stereotypes and Stereotyping 2. Stereotypes in Film 3. A Crash Course on Hollywood's Latino Imagery 4. Subversive Acts: Latino Actor Case Studies Part 2: The Hollywood Version: Latino Representation in Mainstream Cinema 5. Bordertown, the Assimilation Narrative, and the Chicano Social Problem Film 6. The Margin as Center: The Multicultural Dynamics of John Ford's Westerns 7. Immigrants, Aliens, and Extraterrestrials: Science Fiction's Alien "Other" as (among Other Things) New Hispanic Imagery Part 3: Latino Self-Representation Backstory: Chicano and Latino Filmmakers behind the Camera 8. El Genio del Genero: Mexican American Border Documentaries and Postmodernism 9. Ethnic Ingenuity and Mainstream Cinema: Robert Rodriguez's Bedhead (1990) and El Mariachi (1993) 10. The Mariachi Aesthetic Goes to Hollywood: An Interview with Robert Rodriguez Conclusion: The End of Stereotypes? Notes
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01 Jan 2000TL;DR: From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Popular Culture in Time as mentioned in this paper, Popular culture in time, popular culture in Time 2. The Lite Colonial: Diversions of Puerto Rican Discourse3. Broken English Memories: Languages in the Trans-Colony4. "Salvacion Casita": Space, Performance, and Community5. "Cha-Cha with a Backbeat": Songs and Stories of Latin Boogaloo6. Puerto Rocks: Rap, Roots, and Amnesia7. Pan-Latino/Trans Latino: Puerto Ricans in
Abstract: Prelude: From Bomba to Hip-HopIntroduction1. "pueblo pueblo": Popular Culture in Time2. The Lite Colonial: Diversions of Puerto Rican Discourse3. Broken English Memories: Languages in the Trans-Colony4. "Salvacion Casita": Space, Performance, and Community5. "Cha-Cha with a Backbeat": Songs and Stories of Latin Boogaloo6. Puerto Rocks: Rap, Roots, and Amnesia7. Pan-Latino/Trans-Latino: Puerto Ricans in the "New Nueva York"8. Life Off the Hyphen: Latino Literature and Nuyorican Traditions9. The Latino Imaginary: Meanings of Community and Identity10. Latino Studies: New Contexts, New ConceptsPostscript 1998: "None of the Above"
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