...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 some...

...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...

... 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...

... book is structured on more than 100 interviews conducted in Brazil and Japan over a span of 20 years beginning in 1998. The vast majority (96) of these interviews were conducted in Brazil. Only eight respondents gave testimonials in Japan. Nishida prefers the term “life stories,” collected without...

... 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: first...

...Elizabeth Dore Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Sound recordings capture part of the excitement of oral history. By listening to the narrators' and the interviewers' voices, we hear their passions and their fears. And their deceits. We hear the mystery of their silences. Oral...

...Kristin Dutcher Mann Song and Social Change in Latin America . Edited by Shaw Lauren . Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2013 . Notes. Bibliographies. Index. vi, 249 pp. Cloth , $70.00 . Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Lauren Shaw's edited collection of essays and interviews...

... 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 readily concedes that...

... 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...

...), 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 housewife, see Stephanie Coontz...

... South. Randall has assembled wonderful details about 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...

... 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 unavailability of (or...

... early 1970s. Street Democracy is a significant contribution to the increasingly rich historiography of post-1968 Mexico. Mendiola García uses oral interviews, municipal records, secret police reports, and newspapers to reveal how the UPVA's members rejected the PRI-affiliated charro unions and their...

... 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...

... 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 Mexican state documents, many never before analyzed. The first section investigates the...

..., 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 follow-up interviews...

... Shining Path members. People discuss the pain of seeing on a daily basis those who they remember murdering — in one case, beheading — their parents or siblings. One former Shining Path member breaks down in an interview and discusses his guilt and the contempt he suffers every day. “Ricardo” deals with...