... 5 Q con sabor latino: latin jazz, the mambo, and latin holidays in los angeles Its impulses are primitive, its rhythms are frenetic, its pace is frantic and it is called the...

... DANIELA SPENSER The Caribbean Crisis Catalyst for Soviet Projection in Latin America The discovery and forced withdrawal of nuclear missiles in Cuba in October and November 1962 were dramatic events on a world scale, humiliating for the Soviet Union and traumatic for...

...Tanya Katerí Hernández Afro-Latin@s and the Latin@ Workplace Afro-Latin@s are an enigma for the United States courts of law. In the juris- prudence of antidiscrimination law, “Black” has long been understood to be solely a reference to African Americans, and non-Latin@ Whites are...

...nelly richard Intersecting Latin America with Latin Americanism: Academic Knowledge, Theoretical Practice, and Cultural Criticism Nelly Richard was born in France in 1948. A literary and art critic, she is the director of Revista de Crı´tica Cultural in Santiago, Chile. Her main titles...

... 1 Consciousness of the Latin Language among Humanists Did theR Romans Speak Latin? 6743 Fubini / HUMANISM AND...

...Latin American Ex-Presidents Push to Reorient the War on Drugs Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy By the twenty-first century not only peasant cultivators and human rights activists but also former presidents and former ministers of defense around the Americas were...

...The Whole World Was Watching: The 1988 Plebiscite The Observer Group of the Latin American Studies Association In a historic plebiscite held October 5, 1988, Chileans were asked to vote “Yes” or “No” on an eight-year extension of Pinochet’s rule. In a climate of increasing anxiety as...

... Conclusion Race, Multiculturalism, and Genomics in Latin America Peter Wade his conclusion tackles the broad questions raised by our research, as re- Tported in the previous chapters...

...-sponsored project in the 1920s had a profound afterlife throughout the Americas. 4 Aesthetic Avant-­Gardes and Revolutionary Movements from Modern Latin America DAVID CRAVEN An overarching thesis of my chapter is that...

... INTRODUCTION Neoliberalism from Below A Perspective from Latin Amer­i­ca Revolts against Neoliberalism In Latin Amer­i­ca neoliberalism has become a term seeking to remain attached to the past. As a keyword, it serves as a...

... HHH PART THREE william faulkner and latin america n the complex dynamic of transference, projec- tion, and introjection that has allowed the U.S. ISouth to seem both Self and Other to both global northerners...

... EARL FITZ William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil: The American South in Latin American Literature’s ‘‘Other’’ Tradition he U.S. South has long been linked to Bra- zilian literature...

...Notes on Modernity and Postmodernity in Latin American Culture Jose Joaquin Brunner Starting from the vantage point of the contemporary debate about modernity, I want to discuss here some problems of Latin American culture in relation to...

...Latin American Identity and Mixed Temporalities; or, How to Be Postmodern and Indian at the Same Time Fernando Calderon Why, in Latin America, do millions of peasants and artisans coexist with factories, computers and electronic...

...Postmodernism and Neoliberalism in Latin America Martin Hopenhayn The debate about postmodernism has, at its extremes, two opposite positions: On the one hand, that of "postmodern enthusiasts," who proclaim the collapse of modernity...

...Postmodernism and Imperialism: Theory and Politics in Latin America Neil Larsen My remarks here 1 concern the following topics of critical discus• sion and debate: (1) the ideological character of postmodernism both as a...

...Modernity, Identity, and Utopia in Latin America Anibal Quijano Perhaps for many, to take up the modern/postmodern debate in re• lation to Latin America is not something whose importance is immediately evident. For others, the...

...Cultural Peripheries: Latin America and Postmodernist De-centering Nelly Richard The narratives of encounter and disencounter between Latin America and postmodernity are particularly difficult to analyze: First, because of...

...marcelo bucheli United Fruit Company in Latin America uring the first half of the twentieth century the United Fruit Company created a global network for producing, distributing, and marketing D 1 bananas. This undertaking required substantial investments...

...three market and interculturality Latin America between Europe and the United States Who are our others? This question is being reformulated in times of globaliza- tion. Moreover it is impossible to answer it in the same way in all cases; for ex- ample, it is one thing to speak of finances...