Rethinking Race In Modern Argentina

Author : Paulina Alberto,Eduardo Elena
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107107632

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Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina by Paulina Alberto,Eduardo Elena Pdf

This book reconsiders the relationship between race and nation in Argentina during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and places Argentina firmly in dialog with the literature on race and nation in Latin America, from where it has long been excluded or marginalized for being a white, European exception in a mixed-race region. The contributors, based both in North America and Argentina, hail from the fields of history, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies. Their essays collectively destabilize widespread certainties about Argentina, showing that whiteness in that country has more in common with practices and ideologies of Mestizaje and 'racial democracy' elsewhere in the region than has typically been acknowledged. The essays also situate Argentina within the well-established literature on race, nation, and whiteness in world regions beyond Latin America (particularly, other European 'settler societies'). The collection thus contributes to rethinking race for other global contexts as well.

Author : Paulina L. Alberto,Eduardo Elena
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Argentina
ISBN : 1316479447

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Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina by Paulina L. Alberto,Eduardo Elena Pdf

This book reconsiders the relationship between race and nation in Argentina during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and places Argentina firmly in dialog with the literature on race and nation in Latin America, from where it has long been excluded or marginalized for being a white, European exception in a mixed-race region. The contributors, based both in North America and Argentina, hail from the fields of history, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies. Their essays collectively destabilize widespread certainties about Argentina, showing that whiteness in that country has more in common with practices and ideologies of Mestizaje and 'racial democracy' elsewhere in the region than has typically been acknowledged. The essays also situate Argentina within the well-established literature on race, nation, and whiteness in world regions beyond Latin America (particularly, other European 'settler societies'). The collection thus contributes to rethinking race for other global contexts as well.

Author : Paulina L. Alberto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108845557

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Black Legend by Paulina L. Alberto Pdf

The gripping story of Afro-Argentine celebrity Raúl Grigera that also tells the untold history of Black Argentina.

Author : Benjamin Bryce,David M. K. Sheinin
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822982852

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Making Citizens in Argentina by Benjamin Bryce,David M. K. Sheinin Pdf

Making Citizens in Argentina charts the evolving meanings of citizenship in Argentina from the 1880s to the 1980s. Against the backdrop of immigration, science, race, sport, populist rule, and dictatorship, the contributors analyze the power of the Argentine state and other social actors to set the boundaries of citizenship. They also address how Argentines contested the meanings of citizenship over time, and demonstrate how citizenship came to represent a great deal more than nationality or voting rights. In Argentina, it defined a person’s relationships with, and expectations of, the state. Citizenship conditioned the rights and duties of Argentines and foreign nationals living in the country. Through the language of citizenship, Argentines explained to one another who belonged and who did not. In the cultural, moral, and social requirements of citizenship, groups with power often marginalized populations whose societal status was more tenuous. Making Citizens in Argentina also demonstrates how workers, politicians, elites, indigenous peoples, and others staked their own claims to citizenship.

Author : Alejandro de la Fuente,George Reid Andrews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107177628

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Afro-Latin American Studies by Alejandro de la Fuente,George Reid Andrews Pdf

Examines the full range of humanities and social science scholarship on people of African descent in Latin America.

Author : Devin Owen Pendas,Mark Roseman,Richard F. Wetzell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107165458

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Beyond the Racial State by Devin Owen Pendas,Mark Roseman,Richard F. Wetzell Pdf

A fundamental reassessment of the ways that racial policy worked and was understood under the Third Reich. Leading scholars explore race's function, content, and power in relation to society and nation, and above all, in relation to the extraordinary violence unleashed by the Nazis.

Author : Manuela Consonni,Vivian Liska
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110597615

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Sartre, Jews, and the Other by Manuela Consonni,Vivian Liska Pdf

The starting point for this compilation is the wish to rethink the concept of antisemitism, race and gender in light of Sartre’s pioneering Réflexions sur la Question Juive seventy years after its publication. The book gathers texts by prestigious scholars from different disciplines in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, with the objective or revisiting this work locating it within the setting of two other pioneering – and we argue, related – publications, namely Simone De Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe of 1949 and Franz Fanon’s Peau noire et masques blancs of 1952. This particular and original standpoint sheds new light on the different meanings and political functions of the concept of antisemitism in a political and historical context marked by the post-modern concepts of multi-ethnicity and multiculturalism.

Author : Hannah Dawson,Annelien de Dijn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108844567

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Rethinking Liberty before Liberalism by Hannah Dawson,Annelien de Dijn Pdf

Reflects on histories of freedom and republicanism through a major new reappraisal of Quentin Skinner's Liberty before Liberalism.

Author : Paulina L. Alberto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108988513

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Black Legend by Paulina L. Alberto Pdf

Celebrities live their lives in constant dialogue with stories about them. But when these stories are shaped by durable racist myths, they wield undue power to ruin lives and obliterate communities. Black Legend is the haunting story of an Afro-Argentine, Raúl Grigera ('el negro Raúl'), who in the early 1900s audaciously fashioned himself into an alluring Black icon of Buenos Aires' bohemian nightlife, only to have defamatory storytellers unmake him. In this gripping history, Paulina Alberto exposes the destructive power of racial storytelling and narrates a new history of Black Argentina and Argentine Blackness across two centuries. With the extraordinary Raúl Grigera at its center, Black Legend opens new windows into lived experiences of Blackness in a 'white' nation, and illuminates how Raúl's experience of celebrity was not far removed from more ordinary experiences of racial stories in the flesh.

Author : Mahmood Mamdani
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674987326

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Neither Settler nor Native by Mahmood Mamdani Pdf

Making the radical argument that the nation-state was born of colonialism, this book calls us to rethink political violence and reimagine political community beyond majorities and minorities. In this genealogy of political modernity, Mahmood Mamdani argues that the nation-state and the colonial state created each other. In case after case around the globe—from the New World to South Africa, Israel to Germany to Sudan—the colonial state and the nation-state have been mutually constructed through the politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of an equally manufactured minority. The model emerged in North America, where genocide and internment on reservations created both a permanent native underclass and the physical and ideological spaces in which new immigrant identities crystallized as a settler nation. In Europe, this template would be used by the Nazis to address the Jewish Question, and after the fall of the Third Reich, by the Allies to redraw the boundaries of Eastern Europe’s nation-states, cleansing them of their minorities. After Nuremberg the template was used to preserve the idea of the Jews as a separate nation. By establishing Israel through the minoritization of Palestinian Arabs, Zionist settlers followed the North American example. The result has been another cycle of violence. Neither Settler nor Native offers a vision for arresting this historical process. Mamdani rejects the “criminal” solution attempted at Nuremberg, which held individual perpetrators responsible without questioning Nazism as a political project and thus the violence of the nation-state itself. Instead, political violence demands political solutions: not criminal justice for perpetrators but a rethinking of the political community for all survivors—victims, perpetrators, bystanders, beneficiaries—based on common residence and the commitment to build a common future without the permanent political identities of settler and native. Mamdani points to the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa as an unfinished project, seeking a state without a nation.

Author : Hutchins Hapgood
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1967-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465557261

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The Spirit of the Ghetto by Hutchins Hapgood Pdf

Author : Nikhil Pal Singh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674267381

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Black Is a Country by Nikhil Pal Singh Pdf

Despite black gains in modern America, the end of racism is not yet in sight. Nikhil Pal Singh asks what happened to the worldly and radical visions of equality that animated black intellectual activists from W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1930s to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s. In so doing, he constructs an alternative history of civil rights in the twentieth century, a long civil rights era, in which radical hopes and global dreams are recognized as central to the history of black struggle. It is through the words and thought of key black intellectuals, like Du Bois, Ralph Bunche, C. L. R. James, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, and others, as well as movement activists like Malcolm X and Black Panthers, that vital new ideas emerged and circulated. Their most important achievement was to create and sustain a vibrant, black public sphere broadly critical of U.S. social, political, and civic inequality. Finding racism hidden within the universalizing tones of reform-minded liberalism at home and global democratic imperatives abroad, race radicals alienated many who saw them as dangerous and separatist. Few wanted to hear their message then, or even now, and yet, as Singh argues, their passionate skepticism about the limits of U.S. democracy remains as indispensable to a meaningful reconstruction of racial equality and universal political ideals today as it ever was.

Author : Kwang-chih CHANG,Kwang-chih Chang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674029408

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ART MYTH AND RITUAL P by Kwang-chih CHANG,Kwang-chih Chang Pdf

A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. Questioning Marx's concept of an "Asiatic" mode of production, Wittfogel's "hydraulic hypothesis," and cultural-materialist theories on the importance of technology, K. C. Chang builds an impressive counterargument, one which ranges widely from recent archaeological discoveries to studies of mythology, ancient Chinese poetry, and the iconography of Shang food vessels.

Author : Claudia Goldin,Lawrence F. Katz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674037731

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The Race between Education and Technology by Claudia Goldin,Lawrence F. Katz Pdf

This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but also the Human Capital Century. That is, the American educational system is what made America the richest nation in the world. Its educational system had always been less elite than that of most European nations. By 1900 the U.S. had begun to educate its masses at the secondary level, not just in the primary schools that had remarkable success in the nineteenth century. The book argues that technological change, education, and inequality have been involved in a kind of race. During the first eight decades of the twentieth century, the increase of educated workers was higher than the demand for them. This had the effect of boosting income for most people and lowering inequality. However, the reverse has been true since about 1980. This educational slowdown was accompanied by rising inequality. The authors discuss the complex reasons for this, and what might be done to ameliorate it.

Author : David Armitage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521807074

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Foundations of Modern International Thought by David Armitage Pdf

This insightful and wide-ranging volume traces the genesis of international intellectual thought, connecting international and global history with intellectual history.