Proving Patriotismo

Author : Adam McGlynn,Jessica Lavariega Monforti
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793638489

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Proving Patriotismo by Adam McGlynn,Jessica Lavariega Monforti Pdf

In Proving Patriotismo, the authors examine Latino military recruitment and question whether military service is perceived and functions as a vehicle by which Latinos in the United States can be accepted as first-class citizens and improve their economic station? This work provides the first empirical analysis of the poverty draft by asking over 1,800 Latino high school students in South Texas about their experiences with military recruitment. The authors then employ additional original interview data with high school faculty and administration to assess how the military seeks to attract Latino students. Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces are also surveyed to understand their military experience and assess whether their service improved their acceptance as American and improved their post-service quality of life. The work concludes with an examination of national survey data where Latinos provide their views of the U.S. military and Latino military service. The result of this work is a complex picture where the intersection of poverty, ethnicity and patriotism demonstrates why the U.S. military targets a growing Latino population for recruitment and why Latinos in the United States seeking to improve their economic station and their acceptance as American are open to these overtures.

Author : Sofya Aptekar
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262373654

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Green Card Soldier by Sofya Aptekar Pdf

An in-depth and troubling look at a little-known group of immigrants—non-citizen soldiers who enlist in the US military. While the popular image of the US military is one of citizen soldiers protecting their country, the reality is that nearly 5 percent of all first-time military recruits are noncitizens. Their reasons for enlisting are myriad, but many are motivated by the hope of gaining citizenship in return for their service. In Green Card Soldier, Sofya Aptekar talks to more than seventy noncitizen soldiers from twenty-three countries, including some who were displaced by conflict after the US military entered their homeland. She identifies a disturbing pattern: the US military’s intervention in foreign countries drives migration, which in turn supplies the military with a cheap and desperate labor pool—thereby perpetuating the cycle. As Aptekar discovers, serving in the US military is no guarantee against deportation, and yet the promise of citizenship and the threat of deportation are the carrot and stick used to discipline noncitizen soldiers. Viewed at various times as security threats and members of a model minority, immigrant soldiers sometimes face intense discrimination from their native-born colleagues and superiors. Their stories—stitched through with colonial legacies, white supremacy, exploitation, and patriarchy—show how the tensions between deservingness and suspicion shape their enlistment, service, and identities. Giving voice to this little-heard group of immigrants, Green Card Soldier shines a cold light on the complex workings of US empire, globalized militarism, and citizenship.

Author : Luisa Elena Delgado,Pura Fernández,Jo Labanyi
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826503794

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Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History by Luisa Elena Delgado,Pura Fernández,Jo Labanyi Pdf

Rather than being properties of the individual self, emotions are socially produced and deployed in specific cultural contexts, as this collection documents with unusual richness. All the essays show emotions to be a form of thought and knowledge, and a major component of social life—including in the nineteenth century, which attempted to relegate them to a feminine intimate sphere. The collection ranges across topics such as eighteenth-century sensibility, nineteenth-century concerns with the transmission of emotions, early twentieth-century cinematic affect, and the contemporary mobilization of political emotions including those regarding nonstate national identities. The complexities and effects of emotions are explored in a variety of forms—political rhetoric, literature, personal letters, medical writing, cinema, graphic art, soap opera, journalism, popular music, digital media—with attention paid to broader European and transatlantic implications.

Author : Robert Lindsey
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781504038355

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The Falcon and the Snowman by Robert Lindsey Pdf

This fascinating account of how two young Americans turned traitor during the Cold War is an “absolutely smashing real-life spy story” (The New York Times Book Review). At the height of the Cold War, some of the nation’s most precious secrets passed through a CIA contractor in Southern California. Only a handful of employees were cleared to handle the intelligence that came through the Black Vault. One of them was Christopher John Boyce, a hard-partying genius with a sky-high IQ, a passion for falconry, and little love for his country. Security at the Vault was so lax, Boyce couldn’t help but be tempted. And when he gave in, the fate of the free world would hang in the balance. With the help of his best friend, Andrew Daulton Lee, a drug dealer with connections south of the border, Boyce began stealing classified documents and selling them to the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. It was an audacious act of treason, committed by two spoiled young men who were nearly always drunk, stoned, or both—and were about to find themselves caught in the middle of a fight between the CIA and the KGB. This Edgar Award–winning book was the inspiration for the critically acclaimed film starring Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn—a true story as thrilling as any dreamed up by Ian Fleming or John le Carré. Before Edward Snowden, there were Boyce and Lee, two of the most unlikely spies in the history of the Cold War.

Author : Oswaldo Estrada
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438471891

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Troubled Memories by Oswaldo Estrada Pdf

Analyzes literary and cultural representations of iconic Mexican women to explore how these reimaginings can undermine or perpetuate gender norms in contemporary Mexico. In Troubled Memories, Oswaldo Estrada traces the literary and cultural representations of several iconic Mexican women produced in the midst of neoliberalism, gender debates, and the widespread commodification of cultural memory. He examines recent fictionalizations of Malinche, Hernán Cortés’s indigenous translator during the Conquest of Mexico; Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the famous Baroque intellectual of New Spain; Leona Vicario, a supporter of the Mexican War of Independence; the soldaderas of the Mexican Revolution; and Frida Kahlo, the tormented painter of the twentieth century. Long associated with gendered archetypes and symbols, these women have achieved mythical status in Mexican culture and continue to play a complex role in Mexican literature. Focusing on contemporary novels, plays, and chronicles in connection to films, television series, and corridos of the Mexican Revolution, Estrada interrogates how and why authors repeatedly recreate the lives of these historical women from contemporary perspectives, often generating hybrid narratives that fuse history, memory, and fiction. In so doing, he reveals the innovative and sometimes troublesome ways in which authors can challenge or perpetuate gendered conventions of writing women’s lives. “A leading scholar on gender and literature, Oswaldo Estrada delivers a thorough, rigorous, and exciting account on the persistence of female icons in contemporary culture. Steeped in his deep knowledge of Mexico’s cultural history, Estrada’s book is a key contribution to questions of gender, iconicity, and the interrelations between popular and literary culture—a must read for scholars and students.” — Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, author of Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature “By studying the way some of the most prominent female Mexican icons of all time have been reimagined in contemporary fiction and transformed into objects of consumerism, symbols of national identity, and memories of the past, this book fills a dire need in the Mexican studies field. The scholarship is exemplary, the style is impeccable, and reading the author is a pleasure.” — Patricia Saldarriaga, Middlebury College

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004523258

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Transatlantic Battles by Anonim Pdf

How did overseas Europeans participate in the two world wars’ effort? Which were the tensions around mobilization? How did the war affect their identity and their descendants? What were their mobilization’s effects on the relationship with the adopted homelands? These closely intertwined issues connect to the central argument of the book: war exerted a crucial influence on the configuration – and reconfiguration – of those European communities’ national or ethnic identities and made evident their transnational nature. Through different case studies, this volume approached the multi-faceted, complex, and fluid nature of immigrant collective identities under the pressures and challenges of total wars. Contributors are: Juan Pablo Artinian, Juan Luis Carrellán Ruiz, Hernán M. Díaz, Norman Fraser Brown, Marcelo Huernos, Milagros Martínez-Flener, Norman Fraser Brown, Germán C. Friedmann, María Inés Tato, and Stefan Rinke. Transatlantic Battles: European Immigrant Communities in South America and the World Wars is now available in paperback for individual customers.

Author : N. Caso
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230106253

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Practicing Memory in Central American Literature by N. Caso Pdf

Through penetrating analysis of twentieth-century historical fiction from Central America this book asks: why do so many literary texts in the region address historical issues? What kinds of stories are told about the past when authors choose the fictional realm to represent history? Why access memory through fiction and poetry? Nicole Caso traces the active interplay between language, space, and memory in the continuous process of defining local identities through literature. Ultimately, this book looks to the dynamic between form and content to identify potential maps that are suggested in each of these texts in order to imagine possibilities of action in the future.

Author : José Francisco Fernández Sánchez
Publisher : Universidad Almería
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Odisea nº 2: Revista de estudios ingleses by José Francisco Fernández Sánchez Pdf

Revista de Estudios Ingleses es un anuario dirigido y gestionado por miembros del Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana de la Universidad de Almería con el propósito de ofrecer un foro de intercambio de producción científica en campos del conocimiento tan diversos como la lengua inglesa, literatura en lengua inglesa, didáctica del inglés, traducción, inglés para fines específicos y otros igualmente vinculados a los estudios ingleses.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10212980

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Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of Italy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gran Bretagna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF990961782

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Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of Italy Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, July 1849 by Gran Bretagna Pdf

Author : Gran Bretagna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBSR:BS001227056

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Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of Italy by Gran Bretagna Pdf

Author : Percy Dearmer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1333470789

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Patriotism (Classic Reprint) by Percy Dearmer Pdf

Excerpt from Patriotism We will not try to explain why men are patriotic. Perhaps we needed the infernal crimes and horrors of Armageddon to remind us that they are, and that neither dynasts nor diplomats, neither the theories of Utopian materialism nor the sweet appeal of pure reason, can make them otherwise. The war does at least prove to us that the greatest things are not intellectual, that men are moved by other forces more spiritual, more noble, and more true. The whole world shouts it half the world is at war to proclaim it; and it may be that already a million men have died to prove the reality of an abstraction Civilization has not pushed out of it, as from some outworn barbarism, but it has grown with civilization. The national principle, indeed, was not established in Europe until the nineteenth century. We may be annoyed by the things that Hackel has said about England, but at least he has proved that he is not a rationalist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Joao Frederico Normano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351342186

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Revival: The Struggle for South America (1931) by Joao Frederico Normano Pdf

This book, which recalls in some degree Lord Bryce's investigations on the Americas, reviews the foreign trade of South America and examines the opportunities and methods of investment which the continent provides and has provided, and its relation to foreign countries.The author depicts the struggle which has taken place among the nations of Europe and the United States for the benefits to be obtained, and discusses in some detail "American danger." The position of Cuba is surveyed, and a final chapter is devoted to the economic and political future of South America.

Author : Stefan Rinke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107127203

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Latin America and the First World War by Stefan Rinke Pdf

This book is a comprehensive study of Latin America during the First World War from a transnational perspective.

Author : Phillip B. Gonzales,Felipe Gonzales
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803284654

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Política by Phillip B. Gonzales,Felipe Gonzales Pdf

Chapter 15. Realized Political Parties, 1869-1871 -- Conclusions -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index