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On the Move

The Caribbean since 1989

By: Alejandra Bronfman

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On the Move

The Caribbean since 1989

By: Alejandra Bronfman

The Caribbean stands out in the popular imagination as a 'place without history', a place which has somehow eluded modernity. Haiti is envisioned as being trapped in an endless cycle of violence and instability, Cuba as a 1950s time warp, Jamaicans as ganja-smoking Rastafarians, while numerous pristine, anonymous islands are simply peaceful idylls. The notion of 'getting away from it all' lures countless visitors, offering the possibility of total disconnect for the world-weary. In On the Move Alejandra Bronfman argues that in fact the opposite is true; the Caribbean is, and has always been, deeply engaged with the wider world. From drugs and tourism to international political struggles, these islands form an integral part of world history and of the present, and are themselves in a constant state of economic and social flux in the face of global transformations.

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Zed Books Ltd.

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1848137451

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9781848137455

Measures of Equality

Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940

By: Alejandra Bronfman

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Measures of Equality

Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940

By: Alejandra Bronfman

In the years following Cuba's independence, nationalists aimed to transcend racial categories in order to create a unified polity, yet racial and cultural heterogeneity posed continual challenges to these liberal notions of citizenship. Alejandra Bronfman

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807855634

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9780807855638

Isles of Noise

Sonic Media in the Caribbean

By: Alejandra M. Bronfman

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Isles of Noise

Sonic Media in the Caribbean

By: Alejandra M. Bronfman

In this media history of the Caribbean, Alejandra Bronfman traces how technology, culture, and politics developed in a region that was "wired" earlier and more widely than many other parts of the Americas. Haiti, Cuba, and Jamaica acquired radio and broadcasting in the early stages of the global expansion of telecommunications technologies. Imperial histories helped forge these material connections through which the United States, Great Britain, and the islands created a virtual laboratory for experiments in audiopolitics and listening practices. As radio became an established medium worldwide, it burgeoned in the Caribbean because the region was a hub for intense foreign and domestic commercial and military activities. Attending to everyday life, infrastructure, and sounded histories during the waxing of an American empire and the waning of British influence in the Caribbean, Bronfman does not allow the notion of empire to stand solely for domination. By the time of the Cold War, broadcasting had become a ubiquitous phenomenon that rendered sound and voice central to political mobilization in the Caribbean nations throwing off what remained of their imperial tethers.

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236

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UNC Press Books

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1469628708

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9781469628707

Gendered Compromises

Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950

By: Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

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Gendered Compromises

Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950

By: Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

With this book, Karin Rosemblatt presents a gendered history of the politics and political compromise that emerged in Chile during the 1930s and 1940s, when reformist popular-front coalitions held power. While other scholars have focused on the economic realignments and novel political pacts that characterized Chilean politics during this era, Rosemblatt explores how gender helped shape Chile's evolving national identity. Rosemblatt examines how and why the aims of feminists, socialists, labor activists, social workers, physicians, and political leaders converged around a shared gender ideology. Tracing the complex negotiations surrounding the implementation of new labor, health, and welfare policies, she shows that professionals in health and welfare agencies sought to regulate gender and sexuality within the working class and to consolidate the male-led nuclear family as the basis of societal stability. Leftists collaborated in these efforts because they felt that strong family bonds would generate a sense of class belonging and help unify the Left, while feminists perceived male familial responsibility as beneficial for women. Diverse actors within civil society thus reworked the norms of masculinity and femininity developed by state agencies and political leaders--even as others challenged those ideals.

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0807860956

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9780807860953

On the Move

The Caribbean since 1989

By: Alejandra Bronfman

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The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950

By: Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

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The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950

By: Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

In this history of the social and human sciences in Mexico and the United States, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt reveals intricate connections among the development of science, the concept of race, and policies toward indigenous peoples. Focusing on the anthropologists, sociologists, biologists, physicians, and other experts who collaborated across borders from the Mexican Revolution through World War II, Rosemblatt traces how intellectuals on both sides of the Rio Grande forged shared networks in which they discussed indigenous peoples and other ethnic minorities. In doing so, Rosemblatt argues, they refashioned race as a scientific category and consolidated their influence within their respective national policy circles. Postrevolutionary Mexican experts aimed to transform their country into a modern secular state with a dynamic economy, and central to this endeavor was learning how to "manage" racial difference and social welfare. The same concern animated U.S. New Deal policies toward Native Americans. The scientists' border-crossing conceptions of modernity, race, evolution, and pluralism were not simple one-way impositions or appropriations, and they had significant effects. In the United States, the resulting approaches to the management of Native American affairs later shaped policies toward immigrants and black Americans, while in Mexico, officials rejected policy prescriptions they associated with U.S. intellectual imperialism and racial segregation.

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1469636417

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Measures of Equality

Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940

By: Alejandra Bronfman

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Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940

By: Alejandra Bronfman

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On the Move

On the Move

Measures of Equality

Measures of Equality

Isles of Noise

Isles of Noise

Gendered Compromises

Gendered Compromises

On the Move

On the Move

The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950

The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950

Measures of Equality

Measures of Equality

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