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Author : Ana Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez
Publisher : Center for Migration Studies of New York
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cuba
ISBN : 1577030443
Author : Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271073675
Since the arrival of the Spanish conquerors at the beginning of the colonial period, Cuba has been hugely influenced by international migration. Between 1791 and 1810, for instance, many French people migrated to Cuba in the wake of the purchase of Louisiana by the United States and turmoil in Saint-Domingue. Between 1847 and 1874, Cuba was the main recipient of Chinese indentured laborers in Latin America. During the nineteenth century as a whole, more Spanish people migrated to Cuba than anywhere else in the Americas, and hundreds of thousands of slaves were taken to the island. The first decades of the twentieth century saw large numbers of immigrants and temporary workers from various societies arrive in Cuba. And since the revolution of 1959, a continuous outflow of Cubans toward many countries has taken place—with lasting consequences. In this book, the most comprehensive study of international migration in Cuba ever undertaken, Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez aims to elucidate the forces that have shaped international migration and the involvement of the migrants in transnational social fields since the beginning of the colonial period. Drawing on Fernand Braudel’s concept of longue durée, transnational studies, perspectives on power, and other theoretical frameworks, the author places her analysis in a much wider historical and theoretical perspective than has previously been applied to the study of international migration in Cuba, making this a work of substantial interest to social scientists as well as historians.
Author : Margarita Cervantes-Rodriguez,Alejandro Portes
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271035390
"Examines the impact of international migration on the society and culture of Cuba since the colonial period"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Peter Eisenstadt
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 1960 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 081560808X
The Encyclopedia of New York State is one of the most complete works on the Empire State to be published in a half-century. In nearly 2,000 pages and 4,000 signed entries, this single volume captures the impressive complexity of New York State as a historic crossroads of people and ideas, as a cradle of abolitionism and feminism, and as an apex of modern urban, suburban, and rural life. The Encyclopedia is packed with fascinating details from fields ranging from sociology and geography to history. Did you know that Manhattan's Lower East Side was once the most populated neighborhood in the world, but Hamilton County in the Adirondacks is the least densely populated county east of the Mississippi; New York is the only state to border both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; the Erie Canal opened New York City to rich farmland upstate . . . and to the west. Entries by experts chronicle New York's varied areas, politics, and persuasions with a cornucopia of subjects from environmentalism to higher education to railroads, weaving the state's diverse regions and peoples into one idea of New York State. Lavishly illustrated with 500 photographs and figures, 120 maps, and 140 tables, the Encyclopedia is key to understanding the state's past, present, and future. It is a crucial reference for students, teachers, historians, and business people, for New Yorkers of all persuasions, and for anyone interested in finding out more about New York State.
Author : Thomas E. Sheridan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0816532893
From the earliest days of their empire in the New World, the Spanish sought to gain control of the native peoples and lands of what is now Sonora. While missionaries were successful in pacifying many Indians, the Seris--independent groups of hunter-gatherers who lived on the desert shores and islands of the Gulf of California--steadfastly defied Spanish efforts to subjugate them. Empire of Sand is a documentary history of Spanish attempts to convert, control, and ultimately annihilate the Seris. These papers of religious, military, and government officials attest to the Seris' resilience in the face of numerous Spanish attempts to conquer them and remove them from their lands. The documents include early observations of the Seris by Jesuit missionaries, descriptions of the collapse of the Seri mission system in 1748, accounts of the invasion of Tibur n Island in 1750 and the Sonora Expedition of 1767-71, and reports of late eighteenth-century Seri hostilities. Thomas E. Sheridan's introduction puts the documents in perspective, while his notes objectively clarify their significance. By skillfully weaving the documents into a coherent narrative of Spanish-Seri interaction, he has produced a compelling account of empire and resistance that speaks to anthropologists, historians, and all readers who take heart in stories of resistance to oppression.
Author : R. Rojas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230611078
Well-known essayist and Cuban historian Rafael Rojas presents a collection of his best work, one which focuses on - and offers alternatives to - the central myths that have organized Cuban culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Rojas explores the most important themes of Cuban intellectual history, including the legacy of José Martí, the cultural effect of the war in 1898, the construction of a national canon of Cuban literature, the works of classical intellectuals of the republican period, the literary magazine Orígenes, the ideological impact of the Cuban Revolution, and the possibilities of a democratic transition in the island at the beginning of the twenty-firstcentury.
Author : María Teresa Vélez
Publisher : Studies in Latin America & Car
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015048582749
A history of Felipe Garcia Villamil, Afro-Cuban artist and practitioner of sacred drumming, whose music has survived both political and personal upheaval. Through his experiences, it examines the interaction between social, political, economic and cultural forces and the individual's actions.
Author : Alejandro de la Fuente
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0807898767
After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republic in 1902. The nationalist coalition that fought for Cuba's freedom, a movement in which blacks and mulattoes were well represented, had envisioned an egalitarian and inclusive country--a nation for all, as Jose Marti described it. But did the Cuban republic, and later the Cuban revolution, live up to these expectations? Tracing the formation and reformulation of nationalist ideologies, government policies, and different forms of social and political mobilization in republican and postrevolutionary Cuba, Alejandro de la Fuente explores the opportunities and limitations that Afro-Cubans experienced in such areas as job access, education, and political representation. Challenging assumptions of both underlying racism and racial democracy, he contends that racism and antiracism coexisted within Cuban nationalism and, in turn, Cuban society. This coexistence has persisted to this day, despite significant efforts by the revolutionary government to improve the lot of the poor and build a nation that was truly for all.
Author : A. Hernandez-Reguant
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230618329
This collection examines Cuban cultural production during the Special Period of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Bloc. Contributors address the cultural forms; and the associated ethics and practices of labour, leisure, and bureaucratic organization that arose in the transformation of the socialist cultural infrastructure.
Author : Esther Katheryn Whitfield
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816650361
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, during an economic crisis termed its “special period in times of peace,” Cuba began to court the capitalist world for the first time since its 1959 revolution. With the U.S. dollar instated as domestic currency, the island seemed suddenly accessible to foreign consumers, and their interest in its culture boomed. Cuban Currency is the first book to address the effects on Cuban literature of the country’s spectacular opening to foreign markets that marked the end of the twentieth century. Based on interviews and archival research in Havana, Esther Whitfield argues that writers have both challenged and profited from new transnational markets for their work, with far-reaching literary and ideological implications. Whitfield examines money and cross-cultural economic relations as they are inscribed in Cuban fiction. Exploring the work of Zo Valds, Pedro Juan Gutirrez, Antonio Jos Ponte and others, she draws out writers’ engagements with the troublesome commodification of Cuban identity. Confronting the tourist and publishing industries’ roles in the transformation of the Cuban revolution into commercial capital, Whitfield identifies a body of fiction peculiarly attuned to the material and political challenges of the “special period.” Esther Whitfield is assistant professor of comparative literature at Brown University.
Author : Nessa Wolfson,Joan Manes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110857320
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Author : Sandra McKay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521660874
This book provides a social and educational perspective on contemporary English language learners, especially those large, fast-growing Hispanic and Asian groups whose presence is felt strongly in the schools. It is addressed to preservice and in-service teachers of English, whether in language arts, bilingual education, or English as a second language classrooms. Section One, An Historical and Contemporary Overview on English Language Learners in the US describes the makeup of previous generations of English language learners in the United States provides current demographics on English language learners; it also examines the process whereby immigrants come to adopt English. Section Two, New Immigrants in the US, provides teachers with information on the immigration background, language characteristics, and language use patterns of the most numerous groups of present-day English language learners. The third section, English Language Learners and Investment, explores three types of investment necessary for successful language learning--individual investment, legal and policy investment, and educational investment.
Author : Harold Augenbraum,Margarite Fernández Olmos
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0395765285
"The Latino Reader" presents the full history of this important American literary tradition, from its mid-sixteenth-century beginnings to the present day. The wide-ranging selections include works of history, memoir, letters, and essays, as well as fiction, poetry, and drama.
Author : Ofelia García,Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110885811
This book will be of special interest to the general reader concerned with the issue of language in the United States, as well as the language specialist and sociolinguist. It has been written to inform those wishing to learn more about the role that languages other than English have had, and continue to have, in the life of the most important United States city, New York. At the same time this volume makes an important contribution to the scholarly literature on urban multilingualism and the sociology of language. The book contains chapters on languages of ethnolinguistic groups who arrived early in New York and which have been somewhat silenced (Irish, German, Yiddish), the languages of groups who made early contributions and continue to be heard in the city (Italian, Greek , Spanish, Hebrew), and languages which are acquiring an important voice in the city today (Chinese, Indian languages, English creoles, Haitian Creole).
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3117010