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Published: 01 September 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387107-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8710-7
Published: 28 August 2001
DOI: 10.1215/9780822381419-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8141-9
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 15 November 2013
DOI: 10.1215/9780822395836-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9583-6
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 23 April 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021391-032
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2139-1
Published: 17 November 2014
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375920-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7592-0
Series: e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Published: 08 July 2009
DOI: 10.1215/9780822392156-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9215-6
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 29 August 2022
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2297-8
... lo mexicano mexicanidad national character Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 29 August 2022
DOI: 10.1215/9781478022978-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2297-8
... character. The final reading by Alma Guillermoprieto poses a critical question: In this age of globalization of capital and media, can the notion of “ lo mexicano ” finally be threatened with extinction? lo mexicano mexicanidad national character Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ...
Published: 08 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027225-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2722-5
... in his essay, “Of National Characters,” is widely considered to have inaugurated an Enlightenment discourse of race. That note happens also to be the first mention of Williams in print. This chapter reads the scattered records we have about Williams against Hume's note, both of which take on lives...
Published: 17 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027348-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2734-8
... into contact with the refugees. These effects solidified Ngaran perceptions of self and community, perceptions that centered on an oppositional understanding of the national character of Tanzanians and Rwandans. Rwandan refugee crisis violence host ...
Published: 22 May 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822395706-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9570-6
... This chapter concentrates on a series of letters as solutions to problems of origins by emphasizing the context that produced one fictional letter, supposedly written by Macunaíma, the black Native Brazilian protagonist of the modernist novel Macunaíma: The Hero Without Any Character...
Published: 17 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027584-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2758-4
... The introduction gives a panoramic overview of long-standing and prevailing historiographical perspectives on the character and content of the nineteenth-century wars for independence in Cuba, setting in relief the conventions of the existing scholarship as a way to distinguish the departure...
Published: 17 November 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2734-8
... solidified Ngaran perceptions of self and community, perceptions that centered on an oppositional understanding of the national character of Tanzanians and Rwandans. Rwandan refugee crisis violence host ...
Series: Console-ing Passions
Published: 03 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374466-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7446-6
... as the center of a taken-for-granted nationalism, reality TV has put minority characters in the spotlight. The chapter examines how celebrity reality television has exploded postsocialist national racial regimes. In particular, it has disclosed the unspoken role assigned to the Roma to mark the whiteness...
Published: 01 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375791-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7579-1
... This chapter discusses the performative character of France’s liberation from German occupation. It analyzes writings by Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus expressive of their hopes for transforming the French state into a socialist workers’ democracy after the war...
Published: 29 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059004-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5900-4
... of the private/domestic/familial sphere as defining the condition of possibility for and the character of state sovereignty and as itself beyond political contestation; and the characterization of alternative formulations of collective life as racial tendencies, for which the inability to sustain a properly...
Published: 22 May 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822395706-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9570-6
... that the experience of serving as a living laboratory for the alienation of everyday habits as culture has been remarkably transformative and should be considered as one particular site of shifting racial politics in a nation in which a variety of related projects are occurring at the same time. Thus a recognition...
Published: 07 April 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372929-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7292-9
... to nationalist (and racist), character of these programs, this chapter demonstrates that the opposite is actually the case. By showing the colonial legacies of these policies as well as their nationalist rationale, it demonstrates that civic integration policies are arguably the most concrete and insidious form...
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By Lalaie Ameeriar
Published: 10 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373407-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7340-7
... in the context of state-making and national identity. The practices of settlement services agencies contradict Canadian models of multiculturalism by teaching a Canadian mode of bodily comportment to new immigrants, thus reinscribing colonial notions of the uncivilized and wild Other in need of domestication...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 02 September 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375326-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7532-6
... The widespread backlash against crooners in the early 1930s resulted in revised norms of middle-class white masculinity being applied to popular voices for the first time on a national scale. This chapter contextualizes these attacks within a more conservative turn in Depression-era America...