American Crossings: Border Politics in the Western Hemisphere, edited by Maiah Jaskoski, Arturo C. Sotomayor & Harold A. Trinkunas, 2015; reviewed by Olivier Thomas Kramsch The Remittance Landscape: Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA ...
Christien Klaufus, Book Review Editor
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“Integrating ‘Traditional’ and ‘Scientific’ Medicine in contemporary Cuba” [PDF]
Dissertation for the MSc in Globalisation & Latin American Development submitted September 2008.
Cochetti, Chiara Stella
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Another Four Women: AfroCubana Entrepreneurs as Womanist Praxis
ABSTRACT This article is focused on four Black women entrepreneurs in Cuba's lucrative bed and breakfast home‐based tourism economy, asking: (1) what intersectional factors facilitated their entrepreneurial enterprises, (2) how they conceptualize success, and (3) how their narratives illuminate patterns involving gendered race in the country's ...
L. Kaifa Roland
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Disciplining Desire: Rethinking Racial Capitalism Through Black Queer Resistance
ABSTRACT In Black communities, heteronormativity installs the belief that Black people are inherently straight, erasing Black Queer histories. Despite its significance, homophobia remains underexamined in racial capitalism discourse, which neglects the interplay of race, gender, sexuality, and capital.
Seon Yuzyk
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Dancing the Orishas: Exporting a Constructed Form of Popular Culture from Havana to Arcata [PDF]
“Dancing the Orishas: Exporting a Constructed Form of Popular Culture from Havana to Arcata” The staged sacred and social dances of the Afro-Cuban community were chosen to represent the new “revolutionary identity” of Cuba. Maya J.
Akinjiola, Oluyinka
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ALL THAT GLITTERS: THE MANY OBJECTS OF ROME'S MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATIONS
ABSTRACT This review article examines the various methodologies practiced by Rome's Museum of Civilizations (Museo delle Civiltà) to discuss the contemporary curatorial approaches of traditional ethnographic museums. It adopts a historical and comparative perspective to situate the diverse collections within ongoing debates about art restitution.
Arielle Xena Alterwaite
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Orishas, turistas y practicantes. La comercialización del patrimonio religioso en Cuba: Un ejemplo de estrategia de revitalización identita-ria y económica [PDF]
When the market for Afro-Cuban religions was wrapped in the form of Cultural Heritage, what before was a cause for exclusion is was exalted as part of national identity, becoming an ally of political power.
Pérez Amores, Grecy
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Geographies of slavery in the Les Malouines/Las Malvinas/Falklands Islands: The Maroon connection
Short Abstract This paper demonstrates how the Les Malouines/Las Malvinas/Falklands Islands, a margins of the Spanish Empire meant for penance, was also a place where resistance linked with marronage broke an assemblage of colonial military powers. It also highlights that the historical geographies of slavery in Argentina are intrinsically assembled ...
Ana Laura Zavala Guillen
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Spirit Owners, Ethno‐Racial Critique, and Indigenous Land Struggle in Brazil
ABSTRACT This article ethnographically explores how the land conflict between Indigenous protesters and agribusiness complexes in Brazil offers insights for critically reevaluating matters of property and belonging—namely, ethno‐racial critiques of who belongs where and what belongs to whom.
LaShandra Sullivan
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Race, legislative speech, and symbolic representation in Congress
Abstract We know little about the extent to which racial minorities are symbolically represented by members of Congress. This stands in contrast to a wealth of research analyzing the extent to which minorities are substantively and descriptively represented. This article provides the most comprehensive analysis of symbolic representation to date. Using
Arjun Vishwanath
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