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...Paulina L. Alberto Becoming Brazilians: Race and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil . By Marshall C. Eakin . New Approaches to the Americas . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvii, 327 pp. Paper , $29.99...

...Stephen E. Lewis Roots of Identity: Language and Literacy in Mexico . By King Linda . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1994 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Glossary. Bibliography. Index, xii, 193 pp. Cloth , $37.50 . Copyright 1998 by Duke University...

... the identity, attitudes, and political views of Cubans on the island. Through this focus, readers can get an entry point into the social clubs, associations, and other realms through which Cubans forge relations with other segments of Puerto Rican society, particularly its upper classes, while simultaneously...

...O. Nigel Bolland Myths of Ethnicity and Nation: Immigration, Work, and Identity in the Belize Banana Industry . By Moberg Mark . Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press , 1997 . Photographs. Map. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index, xxxvi, 218 pp. Cloth , $38.00...

...Nancy Priscilla Naro Slavery and Identity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Salvador, Brazil, 1808–1888 . By Nishida Mieko . Blacks in the Diaspora . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2003 . Map. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii , 255 pp. Cloth , $39.95...

...Deborah Cohen Doña María’s Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identity . By James Daniel . Boulder : Westview Press , 2001 . Photographs. Notes. Index. xv, 316 pp. Cloth , $54.95 . Paper , $18.95 . Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 I most applaud...

... of constructions of Dominican national identity. Derby questions the perception that this opposition has its roots solely in the “Haitian occupation” of the early nineteenth century. She suggests that to understand “anti-Haitianness” we must also look to the earlier struggles over exchange, land, labor...

..., 139 pp. Paper . Unruly Order: Violence, Power, and Cultural Identity in the High Provinces of Southern Peru . Edited by Poole Deborah . Boulder : Westview Press , 1994 . Photographs. Maps. Graphs. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliographies. ix, 281 pp. Cloth . $52.50 . ...

... almost superhuman endurance” (p. 227). Sandstrom’s theoretical contributions are less compelling than his descriptive skills. In the final chapter, for example, village identity is portrayed as changing because of missionary activity and young people’s temporary wage migration. Sandstrom concludes...

...Evelio Echevarría Latin American Identity and Constructions of Difference . By Chanady Amaryll Minneapolis ; University of Minnesota Press , 1994 . Notes. Index, xlvi, 254 pp. Cloth , $44.95 . Paper , $18.95 . Identidad y pluralismo cultural en América Latina...

...Amy A. Oliver Cultural Identity and Social Liberation in Latin American Thought . By Schutte Ofelia . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1993 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . 313 pp. Cloth, $54.50 . Paper, $17.95 . Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press 1994...

...Abel Alves Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings . By Carrera Magali M. . Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture Carrera . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2003 . Plate...

...Rick A. López ¡Que vivan los tamales!: Food and the Making of Mexican Identity . By Pilcher Jeffrey M. . Diálogos Series . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1998 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index , x, 234 pp. Cloth , $37.50 . Paper...

... discovery of the embryonic filaria, Wucherer, more than any other of the Tropicalistas, forged the group’s identity, set its program of research, and made it visible in the European medical press. 9 Of German-Portuguese descent, Wucherer spent his adolescent years in Brazil and then attended medical...

...Dennis N. Valdés Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 . By Sánchez George J. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1993 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 367 pp. Cloth . $35.00 . Walls...

...Frank Bonilla Puerto Rico: Culture, Politics, and Identity . By Morris Nancy . Westport : Praeger , 1995 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index, xii, 205 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Paper , $18.95 . Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 In this tightly...

..., Collecting Mexico: Museums, Monuments, and the Creation of National Identity es una lectura altamente recomendable para todos aquellos interesados en el estudio de cánones nacionalistas en cualquier país. El último capítulo reviste tal vez mayor novedad en la medida en que Garrigan demuestra  — de...

...Adriana Brodsky While Dr. Nouwen claims that Jews, like other immigrants, “helped to create the new porteño strain of the Argentine national identity while maintaining their ethnic identity” (p. 2), the book's ability to follow through on this assertion is compromised by an unsatisfying...

...Christopher Dunn With rich documentary material from press reports, letters, internal memos, and popular songs, Ickes's book fills a major gap in the historiography of regional identity in Bahia and has much to offer to historians, anthropologists, literary critics, musicologists, and scholars...

... contemporary church relations and the changing self-image of the people of Mexquitic. Chapter 6 deals with twentieth-century politics, and the final chapter examines the struggles over land through history and its relationship to the question of identity. How the Tlaxcalan founders of Mexquitic “became...