Imagining Miami

Author : Earl T. Harper,Doug Specht
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000453508

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Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene by Earl T. Harper,Doug Specht Pdf

Bringing together scholars from English literature, geography, politics, the arts, environmental humanities and sociology, Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene contributes to the emerging debate between bodies of thought first incepted by scholars such as Mouffe, Whyte, Kaplan, Hunt, Swyngedouw and Malm about how apocalyptic events, narratives and imaginaries interact with societal and individual agency historically and in the current political moment. Exploring their own empirical and philosophical contexts, the authors examine the forms of political acting found in apocalyptic imaginaries and reflect on what this means for contemporary society. By framing their arguments around either pre-apocalyptic, peri-apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic narratives and events, a timeline emerges throughout the volume which shows the different opportunities for political agency the anthropocenic subject can enact at the various stages of apocalyptic moments. Featuring a number of creative interventions exclusively produced for the work from artists and fiction writers who engage with the themes of apocalypse, decline, catastrophe and disaster, this innovative book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the politics of climate change, the environmental humanities, literary criticism and eco-criticism.

Author : Sheila L. Croucher
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813917042

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Imagining Miami by Sheila L. Croucher Pdf

Miami has long captured the world's attention in provocative ways. During the 1980s, a series of violent racial disturbances focused national and international attention there as analysts and observers scrambled to explain the demise of the "Magic City." What has emerged is a popular image of Miami as an urban area in which three distinct ethnic groups- Hispanics, Blacks, and Anglos- are pitted against one another in a battle for limited political, economic, and social resources. Sheila L. Croucher uses Miami as a laboratory in which to explore the social and political construction of ethnic identities and ethnic group conflict. Incorporating interviews with community leaders, politicians, journalists, and business people, as well as periodical and popular literature on Miami, this book examines how social constructs emerge and become accepted, as well as how these definitions reflect the pull of vested interests locally, nationally, and even internationally.

Author : Devyn Spence Benson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469626734

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Antiracism in Cuba by Devyn Spence Benson Pdf

Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate social equality. Drawing on Cuban and U.S. archival materials and face-to-face interviews, Benson examines 1960s government programs and campaigns against discrimination, showing how such programs frequently negated their efforts by reproducing racist images and idioms in revolutionary propaganda, cartoons, and school materials. Building on nineteenth-century discourses that imagined Cuba as a raceless space, revolutionary leaders embraced a narrow definition of blackness, often seeming to suggest that Afro-Cubans had to discard their blackness to join the revolution. This was and remains a false dichotomy for many Cubans of color, Benson demonstrates. While some Afro-Cubans agreed with the revolution's sentiments about racial transcendence--"not blacks, not whites, only Cubans--others found ways to use state rhetoric to demand additional reforms. Still others, finding a revolution that disavowed blackness unsettling and paternalistic, fought to insert black history and African culture into revolutionary nationalisms. Despite such efforts by Afro-Cubans and radical government-sponsored integration programs, racism has persisted throughout the revolution in subtle but lasting ways.

Author : S. Oboler,A. Dzidzienyo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403982636

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Neither Enemies nor Friends by S. Oboler,A. Dzidzienyo Pdf

In this collection, leading scholars focus on the contemporary meanings and diverse experiences of blackness in specific countries of the hemisphere, including the United States. The anthology introduces new perspectives on comparative forms of racialization in the Americas and presents its implications both for Latin American societies, and for Latinos' relations with African Americans in the U.S.

Author : Roger Waldinger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520230930

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Strangers at the Gates by Roger Waldinger Pdf

These essays look at U.S. immigration and the nexus between urban realities and immigrant destinies. They argue that immigration today is fundamentaly urban and that immigrants are flocking to places where low-skilled workers are in trouble.

Author : Hideaki Kami
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108423427

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Diplomacy Meets Migration by Hideaki Kami Pdf

Between revolution and counterrevolution -- The legacy of violence -- A time for dialogue? -- The crisis of 1980 -- Acting as a "superhero"? -- The two contrary currents -- Making foreign policy domestic?

Author : Michael A. Bellesiles
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814712962

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Lethal Imagination by Michael A. Bellesiles Pdf

Examining the role of violence in America's past, this collection of essays explores its history and development from slave patrols in the colonial South to gun ownership in the 20th century. The contributors focus not only on individual acts such as domestic violence, murder, duelling, frontier vigilantism and rape, but also on group and state-led acts such as lynchings, slave uprisings, the establishment of rifle clubs, legal sanctions of heterosexual aggression, and invasive medical experiments on women's bodies.

Author : Marguerite S. Shaffer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0812240812

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Public Culture by Marguerite S. Shaffer Pdf

From medicine shows to the Internet, from the Los Angeles Plaza to the Las Vegas Strip, from the commemoration of the Oklahoma City bombing to television programming after 9/11, scholars examine issues of democracy, diversity, identity, community, citizenship, and belonging through the lens of American popular culture.

Author : Moses Shumow,Robert E. Gutsche
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498501996

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News, Neoliberalism, and Miami's Fragmented Urban Space by Moses Shumow,Robert E. Gutsche Pdf

News, Neoliberalism, and Miami’s Fragmented Urban Space examines cultural and social forces responsible for inequalities that have emerged in the rampant development of Miami as a “world city.” This book argues that neoliberal movements rely on the power of journalistic discourses to authorize and legitimize harmful social acts such as gentrification. Moses Shumow and Robert E. Gutsche Jr. provide original analyses of intersections among memory, race, capitalism, and journalistic power, particularly at a time of immense political and environmental change. The authors examine changes in neighborhoods and in public-private developments that are bound to widen an already-great divide between classes and races in South Florida.

Author : James Lyons
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1444319043

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Miami Vice by James Lyons Pdf

Miami Vice captures the glitter and glamour embodied by Crockett and Tubbs and offers students an anatomy of a ground-breaking work in the police procedural genre. Explores Miami Vice’s combination of disparate influences (MTV, film noir, soap opera, ‘high concept’ action films) as well as the social, cultural and industrial moments when it burst onto the network Introduces readers to major components of televisual analysis--style, storytelling, the television show as commodity and ideological critique-- that illustrate the show’s unique features Provides a model for students’ own assessment of other shows, and confirms precisely how--and on what terms--Miami Vice redefined the police drama and an era

Author : Sheila L. Croucher
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0813917050

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Imagining Miami by Sheila L. Croucher Pdf

Miami has long captured the world's attention in provocative ways. During the 1980s, a series of violent racial disturbances focused national and international attention there as analysts and observers scrambled to explain the demise of the "Magic City." What has emerged is a popular image of Miami as an urban area in which three distinct ethnic groups- Hispanics, Blacks, and Anglos- are pitted against one another in a battle for limited political, economic, and social resources. Sheila L. Croucher uses Miami as a laboratory in which to explore the social and political construction of ethnic identities and ethnic group conflict. Incorporating interviews with community leaders, politicians, journalists, and business people, as well as periodical and popular literature on Miami, this book examines how social constructs emerge and become accepted, as well as how these definitions reflect the pull of vested interests locally, nationally, and even internationally.

Author : Alejandro L. Madrid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195326376

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Nor-tec Rifa! by Alejandro L. Madrid Pdf

Marketed as a kind of 'ethnic' electronic dance music, Nor-tec samples sounds of traditional music from the north of Mexico transforming these sounds through computer technology used in European and American techno music and electronica. This is an account of this music and the city that fostered its birth.

Author : Paul Alexander Dunoguez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3507510

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Interethnic Coalitions in Miami, 1980-1994 by Paul Alexander Dunoguez Pdf

Author : Taeku Lee,Subramanian Karthick Ramakrishnan,Ricardo Ramírez
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813925455

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Transforming Politics, Transforming America by Taeku Lee,Subramanian Karthick Ramakrishnan,Ricardo Ramírez Pdf

Over the past four decades, the foreign-born population in the United States has nearly tripled, from about 10 million in 1965 to more than 30 million today. This wave of new Americans comes in disproportionately large numbers from Latin America and Asia, a pattern that is likely to continue in this century. In Transforming Politics, Transforming America, editors Taeku Lee, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, and Ricardo Ramírez bring together the newest work of prominent scholars in the field of immigrant political incorporation to provide the first comprehensive look at the political behavior of immigrants.Focusing on the period from 1965 to the year 2020, this volume tackles the fundamental yet relatively neglected questions, What is the meaning of citizenship, and what is its political relevance? How are immigrants changing our notions of racial and ethnic categorization? How is immigration transforming our understanding of mobilization, participation, and political assimilation? With an emphasis on research that brings innovative theory, quantitative methods, and systematic data to bear on such questions, this volume presents a provocative evidence-based examination of the consequences that these demographic changes might have for the contemporary politics of the United States as well as for the concerns, categories, and conceptual frameworks we use to study race relations and ethnic politics. Contributors Bruce Cain (University of California, Berkeley) * Grace Cho (University of Michigan) * Jack Citrin (University of California, Berkeley) * Louis DeSipio (University of California, Irvine) * Brendan Doherty (University of California, Berkeley) * Lisa García Bedolla (University of California, Irvine) * Zoltan Hajnal (University of California, San Diego) * Jennifer Holdaway (Social Science Research Council) * Jane Junn (Rutgers University) * Philip Kasinitz (City University of New York) * Taeku Lee (University of California, Berkeley) * John Mollenkopf (City University of New York) * Tatishe Mavovosi Nteta (University of California, Berkeley) * Kathryn Pearson (University of Minnesota) * Kenneth Prewitt (Columbia University) * S. Karthick Ramakrishnan (University of California, Riverside) * Ricardo Ramírez (University of Southern California) * Mary Waters (Harvard University) * Cara Wong (University of Michigan) * Janelle Wong (University of Southern California)

Author : Sheila L. Croucher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742516792

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Globalization and Belonging by Sheila L. Croucher Pdf

This is a book that will get us all thinking about the implications of identities in rapidly evolving international and country-by-country politics.