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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 728–730.
Published: 01 November 2023
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (1): 73–107.
Published: 01 February 2016
... by arguing that Mayas were not yet civilized enough for equality and freedom, Q'eqchi’ Maya patriarchs and their ladino allies argued for abolishing mandamientos by drawing upon the metanarrative charting the end of slavery and feudalism and the rise of capitalism. While scholars have illustrated...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (1): 3–32.
Published: 01 February 2013
... in Zacatecas through the colonial period. Using Spanish sources, this article highlights the importance of their contributions to the production of silver and to the settlement of the city and its four Indian towns. It argues for a broader understanding of the labor involved in silver production to include...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 643–672.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Tony Wood Abstract Between 1932 and 1935, the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) argued that the majority-Black population of Oriente, the island's easternmost province, should be granted the right to national self-determination. While this policy has often been dismissed as a passing aberration, I argue...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 391–422.
Published: 01 August 2010
... as an inevitable effect of the end of empire, and instead argues that violence became a means to engage in the political process that brought down empire. At the same time, it argues that the role of violence in bringing down the old regime and creating new institutions and habits of rule and protest was at least...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (2): 257–284.
Published: 01 May 2020
... argue that the Communist Party successfully reintroduced critical discussions of racial discrimination on the island during the 1939 Club Atenas colloquium and the 1940 constitutional assembly. Public engagement with race and discrimination had previously been silenced due to the island's famous...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (2): 285–321.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the existence of two distinct sets of social nomenclature in Mexico: a local one rooted in Jamiltepec and characterized by a plurality of elusive classifications, and a national one founded on a basic distinction between the categories indigenous and mestizo . I argue that the transition between the local...
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View articletitled, Domesticating Social Taxonomies: Local and National Identifications as Seen Through Susan Drucker's Anthropological Fieldwork in Jamiltepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1957–1963
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (4): 655–687.
Published: 01 November 2020
... interviews, the essay demonstrates how the invocation of mestizaje , masculinity, and respectability shaped the production, reception, and content of the magazine—particularly its sexual imagery. The article argues that while Macho Tips appropriated, eroticized, and commodified national values of race...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 101–132.
Published: 01 February 2021
... of some of Brazil's most important figures, and for nearly a century it has attained a mythic status in folklore and political history. Seeking to both explain and intervene in this legend, I argue that the myth of the Prestes Column emerged from and remained tethered to the stigmatized image...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 611–642.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Pedro Jimenez Cantisano Abstract This article considers the rights-based opposition that helped fuel Rio de Janeiro's 1904 Vaccine Revolt. I argue that the revolt was embedded in sociolegal conflicts about the policing of homes. In the early twentieth century, empowered by new laws, public health...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 103–133.
Published: 01 February 2015
... with Sabina, highlighting their contributions to the world of psychedelic psychiatry and exploring the nature of their exchanges. Beyond examining the contours of the therapeutic method Roquet developed in part due to Sabina's teachings, the essay argues that their work together offers us a fascinating...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (4): 627–659.
Published: 01 November 2010
... outdated social and moral hierarchies embedded in Cuban legal structures, others argued that “family” issues had no place in a constitution. The Constituent Assembly’s debates about birth status illuminate how issues concerning sexual propriety and family were intertwined with antidiscrimination efforts...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (3): 377–409.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Celso Thomas Castilho Abstract This article highlights the centrality of theatrical and carnival performances to the making of the Brazilian abolitionist movement. Based on the case study of Recife, it argues that these cultural manifestations were integral to broadly politicizing the problem...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 February 2014
... of mutual forgetting reveals much about the subtle but persistent disjuncture between leftist ideology and grassroots political practice that characterized mid-twentieth-century Brazil. Analysts have long bemoaned and explored this disjuncture in the context of Brazil’s labor politics; this article argues...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (1): 77–105.
Published: 01 February 2014
... to define the relationship between the rulers and the ruled in a way that naturalized the former’s place in power. I argue that while music programs asserted the unity, horizontality, and inclusiveness of the nation by glorifying popular music, they also deepened the terms of exclusion they professed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (2): 259–296.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of their communal property rights, proclaiming “land to the original owners.” Revisionist scholars in the 1980s and 1990s, critical of the revolution, argued that the nationalist party eroded communal property rights. This article demonstrates that comunario political action after the revolution not only succeeded...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (2): 237–269.
Published: 01 May 2014
...-building projects. The ruler of Venezuela during this moment, Juan Vicente Gómez (1908–1935), had to weigh these benefits of fiscal reform against the usefulness of distributing lucrative tax farming contracts as patronage to his top collaborators. This article argues that the attempt to “import” modern...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (2): 271–302.
Published: 01 May 2014
... produced between these elemental and modern carceral forms and argue that the penal colony was an open-door panopticon, where punishment and routines were aligned with environmental factors that extended beyond the prison walls and thereby complicated progressive criminology. Prisoner labor in the town...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (2): 193–222.
Published: 01 May 2017
... the conditions imposed on their lives. This article argues that they fundamentally shaped Potosí's labor system. I analyze, then, the interaction between coerced and free labor— mitayos and mingas —and emphasize their interconnection with k'ajchas (self-employed workers) and the rudimentary ore mills known...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (1): 35–75.
Published: 01 February 2014
... at the intersection of the everyday and the political, as well as a consideration of humor as a way of exploring social identities. I argue first that Mafalda ’s ironic and conceptual humor worked with the contradictions of the middle class as it faced social modernization, cultural and political radicalization...
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