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A Beauty that Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (2): 334–335.
Published: 01 May 1997
...David McCreery A Beauty that Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala . By Lovell George W. . Toronto : Between the Lines , 1995 . Map. Bibliography, xiii, 161 pp. Paper . $19.95 . Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 In this book, George Lovell, a historical geographer...
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Queen for a Day: Transformistas , Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (2): 382–384.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Mirta Zaida Lobato Queen for a Day: Transformistas , Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela . By Ochoa Marcia . Perverse Modernities . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 282 pp. Paper...
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Of Beasts and Beauty: Gender, Race, and Identity in Colombia
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (4): 756–758.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Marcia Ochoa Of Beasts and Beauty: Gender, Race, and Identity in Colombia . By Stanfield Michael Edward . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2013 . Photographs. Map. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 280 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University...
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La Raza Cosmética: Beauty, Identity, and Settler Colonialism in Postrevolutionary Mexico
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (4): 764–765.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Elena Jackson Albarrán La Raza Cosmética: Beauty, Identity, and Settler Colonialism in Postrevolutionary Mexico . By Natasha Varner . Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2020 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii, 185...
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Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (2): 379–380.
Published: 01 May 2009
... by historians, anthropologists, and sociologists in the fields of Latin American and Latina/o studies. Candelario’s discussion of Dominican racial formation in New York City convincingly illustrates the importance of beauty culture, and hairstyling in particular, as a marker of Dominican racial...
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“Beauty” versus “authenticity”: Ladina queens (upper photos) and their indi...
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in Subverting Authenticity: Reinas Indígenas and the Guatemalan State, 1978
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Published: 01 February 2009
Figure 3 “Beauty” versus “authenticity”: Ladina queens (upper photos) and their indigenous counterparts (lower photos). Programa General de Feria 2002 , Cobán, Alta Verapaz.
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (4): 762.
Published: 01 November 1999
...Michael J. Pisani Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora: Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana . By Prieto Norma Iglesias . Translated by Stone Michael with Winkler Gabrielle . Foreword by Selby Henry . Translations from Latin America Series . Austin : Institute...
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The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football and the Making of Modern Brazil
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (3): 556–558.
Published: 01 August 2017
... historical contribution not only by focusing on a phase that had been little studied by Brazilianists but also by questioning the nature of a much-used cliché, the beautiful game, which was crucially internalized as part of common sense and by a portion of the national intellectual community. Bocketti's...
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A Patron of Progress: Juana Catarina Romero, the Nineteenth-Century Cacica of Tehuantepec
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 393–426.
Published: 01 August 2008
..., Romero sought to regulate and discipline Tehuantepec, hoping to create a more orderly, productive, and beautiful urban space. Through her influence on Tehuano dress and local fiestas, she attempted to bring local customs into line with the ideals of Porfirian modernization and mestizo identity. Her...
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Lo bello en la naturaleza: Alejandro Malaspina; Estética, filosofía natural y blancura en el ocaso de la Ilustración (1795–1803)
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 732–733.
Published: 01 November 2023
... (cowritten with his patron, the beautiful marquesa de Matallana); the latter were part of a larger dispute with other members of the expedition. Sánchez Arteaga argues that these writings reflect Malaspina's preoccupation with the evaluation of essential beauty as the foundation of race. The evidence...
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The India Bonita Contest of 1921 and the Ethnicization of Mexican National Culture
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (2): 291–328.
Published: 01 May 2002
... Univ. Press, 2000). 91 Discourse and memory, however, are ironically contradicted by daily practices, and by portrayals in advertising, television, and beauty contests, which define the ideal Mexican as tall, thin, white, and blond. Copyright 2002 by Duke University Press 2002...
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Runway Hospitality: Air Jamaica's “Rare Tropical Birds” and the Embodied Gender and Race Politics of Tourism, 1966–1980
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (2): 285–319.
Published: 01 May 2022
... still cleaving to previous shape, age, and single-status standards. Historian Rochelle Rowe argues that Webster, despite her intentions, ultimately contributed to the project of marrying “cultural nationalism to the ideal of mixed-race female beauty.” Rowe, Imagining Caribbean Womanhood , 38. 32...
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Subverting Authenticity: Reinas Indígenas and the Guatemalan State, 1978
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (1): 41–72.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Figure 3 “Beauty” versus “authenticity”: Ladina queens (upper photos) and their indigenous counterparts (lower photos). Programa General de Feria 2002 , Cobán, Alta Verapaz. ...
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Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 723–725.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Convent of Santa Clara. Brewer-García compares two hagiographies with Úrsula de Jesús's spiritual diary, finding that the diary emphasizes Black beauty and salvation. The diary in fact states that Africans and their descendants were more likely than whites to achieve salvation and that God rewards Black...
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A Mexican Ulysses, An Autobiography
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (1): 131–132.
Published: 01 February 1965
... of his countrymen, Vasconcelos believed that the pursuit of materialistic ends is an unworthy goal which dulls the mind and starves the spirit. From his viewpoint, the true goal of existence is the quest of the human spirit for Divine beauty in nature, art, literature, music, and love. In his Mexican...
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Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico’s National Parks, 1910–1940
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (4): 769–770.
Published: 01 November 2012
... care of its natural beauty because Mexicans ought to value and take pride in the nature that belongs to them and because every landscape provided ecological services to the nation. Implementation was difficult, as Wakild explains, because race and class prejudices were in play and definitions...
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La Joven Moderna in Interwar Argentina: Gender, Nation, and Popular Culture
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (2): 371–373.
Published: 01 May 2021
... not undermine sex appeal; in representations of modern femininity good health mattered, but beauty mattered most. This chapter explores the local and international beauty contests that proliferated in the late 1920s and 1930s, sponsored by popular magazines, commercial firms, and advertising companies...
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The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930: Cityscapes Photographs Debates
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (1): 168–170.
Published: 01 February 2023
..., $70.00 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 The Metropolis in Latin America is a beautiful object to be treasured as a true Wunderkammer extracted from the Getty Research Institute's outstanding collection of historical maps and images of such cities as Buenos Aires, Havana...
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The Farm on the River of Emeralds
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (3): 561–562.
Published: 01 August 1980
... liar I ever met, and the most honest man” (p. 78); Dalmiro, an ancient white-haired machetero offering his last cow for the love of a young woman; Victor, a beautiful black man who was the worst of thieves; and Santo, a young lover who devoured hummingbird hearts. While Latin society is hopeless...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (1): 173–174.
Published: 01 February 1968
... “The City of San Sebastián of Rio de Janeiro” was discovered (1502) to the day when Rio was demoted from capital city of the Republic to capital city of the newly-created state of Guanabara (1960). This book serves as a guide to the birth, growth, changing panorama, people, scenic beauty, and problems...
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