...John D. French 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 The Robert J. Alexander Interview Collection John D. French Pioneering Latin Americanist Robert Jackson Alexander (1918 –) was a central player in U.S.–Latin American labor, political, and scholarly affairs after World War II. For...

... in the early 1980s by residents of Venezuela's largest urban housing project, the 23 de Enero in downtown Caracas. Coupling archival data and oral history interviews, the article reconstructs the protest and its context to show how residents balanced a formerly contradictory experience of electoral...

...Keely Maxwell This article shows how tourism has shaped Latin American environments by constructing touristic landscapes, causing environmental impacts, and affecting environmental problem solving. The author utilizes written records and interviews to document the environmental history of the Inca...

... “money whitens.” Findings for age and education may reflect a recent shift to multiculturalism. In addition, we find that white identification is predicted to change in response to the survey interviewer’s color, suggesting that choices about racial identification are relational. The work of historians...

...John D. French Extensive interviews and confidential police and judicial records are used to explore the life of Marcos Andreotti (1910–1984), a lifelong Communist labor leader active in the industrial ABC region of greater São Paulo. The intensified persecution faced by Andreotti in the early...

... section Myers both narrates a history of the conquest, and of Mexico more broadly, and reproduces interviews and interactions with residents along the route. At the end of each section Myers includes longer selections from her interviews. Throughout the book Myers seeks to highlight three common threads...

... study with more interviews among the guest workers who migrated to Japan beginning in the early 1990s. Japanese society considered them gaijin (foreigners) because they were culturally Brazilian. Most only spoke Portuguese. Nishida gathered only eight interviews with native Japanese. More were needed...

...Elizabeth Dore You are listening to four passages about sex and race from an interview with Juan Guillard (a pseudonym), an Afro-Cuban who lives in Campo Florido, a rural township about 20 miles from Havana. 5 That this interview sparked heated debates was by itself unsurprising. Race and sex...

... and interviews examines the way in which music has provided a strong voice for resistance to forces of modernization, globalization, and state power in contemporary Latin America. Many genres of Latin American music appear in this volume — guaracha, bomba , plena , tropicália , trova , vallenato...

... would be credited with—or blamed for—the explosion of international solidarity with the revolutionary island. A. Javier Treviño's account of Listen, Yankee thoughtfully explores its political and intellectual genesis, grounded in his unprecedented access to Mills's taped interviews. Treviño...

... through the ten thousand or so interviews he recorded with Latin Americans, Latin Americanists, and others across 60 years of travel to all of the countries of the region. At the same time, his reports to Lovestone and the political nar- rative that filled his books spoke to his shrewd ability to...

... sister), Susana (her niece), María Lujan (her grand-­niece), and Luis (her nephew- ­in-­law, married to Susana), interview with author, Santa Rosa, 26 July 2004, tape recording. Hereafter, I refer to this interview as “Porota B.” and specify the person quoted. 7. For analysis of the 1950s US...

... Cuba's missions abroad. Her book contains interviews that she carried out with returning doctors, nurses, and teachers. Especially poignant is Randall's interview with Nancy Alonso, who went to Ethiopia while the Berlin Wall still stood and returned to a Cuba in economic decline after the Soviet Union...

... Argentine political history. One was the extensive use of oral interviews of major military and civilian political figures interwoven into the text. Another was a reliance on US diplomatic reports on Argentina found at the US National Archives for insights into internal political developments given the...

... skillful use of two main types of sources. The first are 200 interviews conducted between June 2007 and January 2010 with representatives of the nonactivist middle class. Selected from three different parts of the national territory — the cities of Buenos Aires and San Miguel de Tucumán and the small town...

... twenty-first century. Mendiola García's use of oral interviews and photographs brings Puebla's streets to life, giving us a sense of the sights, smells, and quotidian rhythms of these dynamic public spaces. Those sources also shed light on aspects of the UPVA's history that written documents obscure...

... ”; Bermúdez, “Beyond Vallenato”; Bermúdez, “¿Qué es?”; Castillo Castro, “Música.” 23. Gustavo Gutiérrez Cabello, interview by author, Riohacha, 4 Feb. 2005. For Gustavo Gutiérrez Cabello's work, see Urbina Joiro, Lírica vallenata . 24. Medina Sierra, Seis cantores vallenatos , 23. 25...

... but as an important realm of experience that “should become the property of history in general.” 28 To make sense of creative diplomats and their emotions, this article examines a variety of sources, including oral history interviews, memoirs, private letters, dance ephemera, and Cuban and...

... or Brazil. Professor Dulles’s engagement with history first came through his employment with the Com­ pañía Minera de Peñoles of Monterrey, Mexico. He traveled frequently to Mex­ ico City, spending much time in the anterooms of public officials. There he met and interviewed several retired...

... ground” (pp. 13, 207). Jaskoski's conclusions are based on interviews in 2005–2006 with over 150 active and retired Ecuadorean and Peruvian officers, and more than 150 academics, journalists, researchers, active and retired civilian government officials, and others, as well as smaller numbers of...