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A Tale of Two Cities
In the second half of the twentieth century Dominicans became New York City's largest, and poorest, new immigrant group. They toiled in garment factories and small groceries, and as taxi drivers, janitors, hospital workers, and nannies. By 1990, one of every ten Dominicans lived in New York. A Tale of Two Cities tells the fascinating story of this emblematic migration from Latin America to the United States. Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof chronicles not only how New York itself was forever transformed by Dominican settlement but also how Dominicans' lives in New York profoundly affected life in the Dominican Republic. A Tale of Two Cities is unique in offering a simultaneous, richly detailed social ...
Immigrant Life in the US
Immigrant Life in the U.S. brings together scholars from across the disciplines to examine diverse examples of immigration to the paradigmatic 'nation of immigrants'. The volume covers a wide range of time periods, ethnic and national groups, and places of immigration. Contemporary Chinese children brought to the U.S. through adoption, Mexican laborers hired to work in the mid-west in the 1930s, Indian computer programmers hired to work in California, and more, are examined in a series of chapters that show the great diversity of issues facing immigrants in the past and in the present. This book emphasizes the complex tapestry that is the everyday experience of life as an immigrant and turns a critical eye on the place of globalization in the everyday life of immigrants. The contrasts it draws between past and present demonstrate the continued salience of national and ethnic identities while also describing how migrants can live almost simultaneously in two countries. This book will be of essential interest to advanced students and researchers of Sociology, History, Ethnic Studies and American Studies.
Fernando Alonso
Written records of Alonso’s work are scarce, yet Toba Singer’s quest to spotlight his seminal role in the development of the modern ballet canon yields key material: pre-blockade tapes from Lincoln Center, Spanish-language sources from the Museum of Dance in Havana, and interviews with the ballet master himself alongside a broad range of friends, relatives, and collaborators from throughout his long career, including his ex-wife, Alicia, a famous ballerina in her own right.
Practicing Ethnography in a Globalizing World
In this book distinguished anthropologist June Nash demonstrates how ethnography can illuminate a wide array of global problems. She describes encounters with an urban U.S. community undergoing de-industrialization, with Mandalay rice cultivators accommodating to post-World War II independence through animistic pratices, with Mayans mobilizing for autonomy, and with Andean peasants and miners confronting the International Monetary Fund. Havin worked in a great variety of cultural settings around the world, Nash challenges us to expand our anthropological horizons and to think about local problems in a global manner.
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Courting Democracy in Mexico
This book documents Mexico's gradual transition to democracy, written from a perspective which pits opposition activists' post-electoral conflicts against their usage of regime-constructed electoral courts at the centre of the democratization process. It addresses the puzzle of why, during key moments of Mexico's 27-year democratic transition, opposition parties failed to use autonomous electoral courts established to mitigate the country's often violent post-electoral disputes, despite formal guarantees of court independence from the Party of the Institutional Revolution (PRI), Mexico's ruling party for 71 years (preceeding the watershed 2000 presidential elections). Drawing on hundreds of author interviews throughout Mexico over a three-year period and extensive archival research, the author explores choices by the rightist National Action Party (PAN) and the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) between post-electoral conflict resolution via electoral courts and via traditional routes - mobilization and bargaining with the PRI-state.
Dialogando com o Direito
Dialogando com o direito é um compêndio de temas relevantes que per- meiam a órbita jurídica. Docentes e discentes reuniram seus saberes, discutiram, dialogaram e propuseram como resultado final esta brilhante obra. Pensar criticamente no Direito é propor um novo olhar, suscitar questiona- mentos e conectar teorias com a realidade social. Ao exercitar essa realidade nos so- los universitários, permite-se que alunos e professores vivenciem a ciência jurídica, ampliando seus conhecimentos. Dentre essas atividades provenientes do exercício acadêmico, o Encontro de Iniciação à Pesquisa Jurídica permite congregar conhecimento, debates, aprendiza- dos, todos são peç...
Etnografía del patrimonio biocultural de las regiones y territorios indígenas de México III
Se exploran los conceptos de diversidad y patrimonio biocultural, situándolos en el contexto legal y de derechos humanos en México como país pluricultural. En cada capítulo, se abordan aspectos del vínculo indisoluble de los pueblos indígenas con su entorno, con enfoques analíticos distintos, como la etnoecología, el diálogo de saberes, la ecología política, entre otros.
Bastión de brujos y sueños
Nunca fue mi interés hacer un libro teórico. Más allá del material, diálogos e inquietudes acumulados por años de trabajo de campo, el detonador que ofreció un hilo desde dónde empezar a tejer, fue un conjunto de sueños que desde 2015 se abatió sobre los pobladores de Zapote Bravo, en los calurosos lomeríos de la Huasteca veracruzana, desencadenando una serie de eventos rituales, búsquedas y conflictos que terminaron por cimbrar la añeja jerarquía chamánica, lo que implicó un necesario acompañamiento teórico para explorar sus causas. Poco antes de que la pandemia la alcanzara, esta comunidad ya enfrentaba una inusual crisis que alteró su dinámica ritual y socavó el lider...
El monumental
Ambientada entre 1950 y 1970, se trata de una narración en tercera persona que cuenta hechos biográfico-históricos y «ucrónicos» de un personaje poliédrico que pasa de liderar una «revolución musical-cultural» latinoamericana a tener serios problemas cuando devela al mundo sus pretensiones políticas. Con voz romántica y elegiaca, el narrador nos lleva por un viaje de quince años entre República Dominicana, Argentina, Chile, México, EE.UU. y Europa, mostrándonos la ascensión y «martirio» de un «héroe» poco convencional; peleado con sus propios ideales, ligado a sus compromisos artísticos y entrampado en el dilema —más ético que filosófico— del «Ser» y el «Deber Ser». La envergadura legendaria del protagonista transgrede en una época de profundos cambios sociales, donde las vanguardias, el pop art y la expansión mediática endiosaban y demonizaban rostros. La espiral de eventos se va desarrollando mientras una América Latina en ebullición se muestra más rebelde que nunca y el clímax del mismo aparece en medio del oscurantismo que supuso la nefanda era de «Los doce años» del presidente dominicano Joaquín Balaguer.
