Latin American and Caribbean History

De la India a las Indias y viceversa. Relaciones literarias entre Hispanoamérica y Asia (siglo XX)

by Catalina Quesada Gómez

Published in Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, XI, 42 (2011), pp. 43-63. ISSN 1577-3388

Between unity and diversity: historical and cultural foundations of Brazilian management (Islam, 2012)

by Gazi Islam

Rethinking the Archaeology of Rebels, Backsliders, and Idolaters. In Enduring Conquests: Rethinking the Archaeology of Resistance to Spanish Colonialism in the Americas, edited by M. Liebmann and M. S. Murphy. SAR Press, Santa Fe.

by Matthew Liebmann

Co-authored with Melissa S. Murphy. Introduction to the volume "Enduring Conquests"

En el cincuentenario de CARIBBEAN STUDIES: algunas notas sobre las universidades del Caribe y sus revistas académicas

by Humberto Garcia-Muniz

Article published in CARIBBEAN STUDIES vol. 39, nos. 1-2 (Jan-Dec 2011), pp. 3-42.

These commemorative notes on the fiftieth anniversary of Caribbean Studies are an initial endeavor to discuss academic... more These commemorative notes on the fiftieth anniversary of Caribbean Studies are an initial endeavor to discuss academic journals published by universities in the Caribbean region. The first part deals with thedevelopment of higher education institutions and the creation of university-based academic journals in the Hispanic-and English-speaking Caribbean. The next section addresses the development of the first academic journals with a regional perspective—Caribbean Quarterly and Social and Economic Studies—until their becoming peer-reviewed journals. In the third part, the article centers on the origin and development of Caribbean Studies, including also a bibliometric analysis ofseveral aspects, such as the the origin of authors, fields of study, andothers. The essay closes with a rapid view of the present panorama of journals dedicated to the Caribbean and with a brief conclusion.

La felicidad prometida y sus límites. Desarrollo institucional, inclusión/exclusión social y el legado colonial en Centroamérica, 1770-1870

by David Diaz-Arias

(Con la colaboración de Ronny Viales Hurtado) en: Independencias, Estados y política(s) en la Centroamérica del siglo XIX. Las rutas históricas del bicentenario (San José: Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de América Central, 2012), pp. 45-62.

Populismo, neopopulismo y movimientos sociales en América Latina: una interpretación teórico-comparativa de las experiencias históricas contemporáneas

by David Diaz-Arias

en: Ronny Viales Hurtado, David Díaz Arias y Javier Franzé (compiladores), América Latina: conceptos y conflictos (San José: Editorial Nuevas Perspectivas, 2011).

Lux, Christina. “The House Facing the Sea." Translation from the French of “La Maison face à la mer” by Marie-Célie Agnant. Metamorphoses: The Five College Faculty Seminar on Literary Translation, 11.1 (Spring 2003): 193-199.

by Christina Lux

also listed under translator's former name, "Vander Vorst"

Translation of a short story by Haitian author Marie-Célie Agnant; originally appeared in the collection Le Silence... more Translation of a short story by Haitian author Marie-Célie Agnant; originally appeared in the collection Le Silence comme le sang (1997).

Keywords: Haiti, short story, Agnant, Canada, women, gender, violence, conflict, Caribbean

The Specter of Las Casas: José Antonio Saco and the Persistence of Spanish Colonialism in Cuba

by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

Itinerario 25 (2001): 93-109

José Antonio Saco's histories of slavery, the slave trade, and Spanish colonization and his use of Bartolomé de las... more José Antonio Saco's histories of slavery, the slave trade, and Spanish colonization and his use of Bartolomé de las Casas as a historical source and as a rhetorical model.

BOOK REVIEW: "San Martín: Argentine Soldier, American Hero."

by Roberto C. Delgadillo

Journal of Military History 74, no. 2 (April 2010): 586-587

The article reviews the book "San Martín: Argentine Soldier, American Hero," by John Lynch. The article reviews the book "San Martín: Argentine Soldier, American Hero," by John Lynch.

La conquista de México en Pedro Mártir de Anglería y Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda

by Jorge Diaz Ceballos

Soltar las cadenas de las cosas: las tradiciones clásicas de Latinoamérica

by Andrew Laird

Publicado en: La influencia clásica en América Latina ed. Carla Bocchetti (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2010), 8-23

Una vista somera sobre las herencias y varios rastros de la antigua Europa en Latinoamérica

An overview of... more Una vista somera sobre las herencias y varios rastros de la antigua Europa en Latinoamérica

An overview of ancient European legacies in Latin America

Patriotism and the Rise of Latin in Eighteenth-Century New Spain

by Andrew Laird

Published in Renæssanceforum 8, 2012

This paper explains why Jesuit authors from New Spain wrote in Latin in order to promote the richness of Mexico’s... more This paper explains why Jesuit authors from New Spain wrote in Latin in order to promote the richness of Mexico’s nature and culture, in response to Enlightenment polemics about the degeneracy of human and natural life in the Americas. Consideration of some works produced between 1750 and 1780 indicates the principal reason: the creole Jesuits sought a legacy for Mexico to match the monumental representation of Iberia’s Greco-Roman past and of the Spanish Golden Age in the 'Bibliotheca Hispana nova' and the 'Bibliotheca Hispana vetus' which the Sevillian scholar Nicolás Antonio had compiled in Latin in the mid-1600s.

El descubrimiento del trópico en Las ceremonias del verano (1966)*

by Sarah González de Mojica

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Con Las ceremonias del verano Marta Traba se lanza a una nueva carrera como escritora de ficción, decisión que toma en... more Con Las ceremonias del verano Marta Traba se lanza a una nueva carrera como escritora de ficción, decisión que toma en Bogotá, en medio de una significativa encrucijada en su vida personal y pública. Su conversión en novelista no parecía haber despertado la atención de sus amigos escritores ni de los intelectuales de esa ciudad que ella misma había fundado como centro de su proyección latinoamericana en función de su carrera como crítica artística y cultural. Para los colombianos, Marta Traba fue una figura polémica que transformó la manera de mirar el arte y estableció el canon moderno.

Slavery & Abolition in Latin America on Academic Minute

by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

Short reading on the topic for Inside Higher Ed's "Academic Minute."

“Immigration and Education: State Regulation, Nationalism, and School Policy in Ontario and Buenos Aires, 1880-1914”

by Benjamin Bryce

Presented in Spanish at the Interuniversity Seminar on Canadian Studies in Latin America (SEMINECAL), University of Havana, Cuba, April 12, 2012.

In 1910, at the height of an emergent and changing Argentine nationalism, politicians, bureaucrats, and writers in the... more In 1910, at the height of an emergent and changing Argentine nationalism, politicians, bureaucrats, and writers in the public sphere proudly discussed the influence of the growing network of public schools in Buenos Aires. They boldly lauded the role of education in solving the “problem” created by decades of mass migration. Many viewed schooling as a necessary means to attain a united, loyal, and ethnically homogeneous nation. At the same time, bureaucrats and educators in Ontario were engaged in a very similar project. A growing pro-English linguistic ideology faced off against the entrenched rights of French and German in provincially-controlled public and Catholic elementary schools. In both cases, state officials and politicians discussed and engaged in activities that illustrated their ideas about the relationship among language, citizenship, and nation.

This paper lays out some key commonalities in the educational systems that emerged in Ontario and Buenos Aires. It also seeks to outline the relationship between state regulation and ethnic minorities between 1880 and 1914. I examine German schools in both places as a case study. Understanding the changing position of German in both places forms a fundamental part of the history of education in Ontario and Buenos Aires. German offers a lens through which we can observe the rising authority of the educational state but also the limitations of state influence. Elites in both Canada and Argentina made similar arguments about the "problems" of cultural pluralism, but the state apparatus in Ontario was much more effective in actually implementing this discourse. In this period, a growing network of schools emerged in both Ontario and Buenos Aires that were part of larger projects of modernization, changing notions of citizenship, and a growing apparatus of state authority. Yet between two liberal forms of governmentality in Ontario and Buenos Aires, noticeable differences began to emerge.

“Conflicting Loyalties: Religion, Family, and Ethnicity at the German Schools of Buenos Aires, 1895-1930”

by Benjamin Bryce

Presented at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Louisville, Kentucky, September 24, 2011.

In the fall of 1898, Max Hopff sent a letter of complaint to the Deutsche La Plata Zeitung of Buenos Aires, the... more In the fall of 1898, Max Hopff sent a letter of complaint to the Deutsche La Plata Zeitung of Buenos Aires, the largest German-language daily in the region. He very publicly decried the financial and administrative connections between the city’s main German school and the Lutheran congregation.  He was concerned with the poor quality of the school, its educational goals, and most importantly, that the school “instead of [serving] a broad German community, only maintains a German Lutheran one…Germans of other denominations are excluded from participating in community affairs.”  The letter provoked a large debate over the next ten days with about a dozen letters, and several men debated the place of the Church in their ethnic community.  When Hopff, Theodor Alemann, Paul Oehrtmann, and Otto Beines founded a new school four months later in August 1898, they announced that “the question of faith should not prevent children from attending a German school and that the school should not meddle with this moral issue.”
 
This debate in the fall and winter of 1898 set off a process of change and growth that would define German-language education in the city for the next three decades. Using Max Hopff and the newly founded German School Association of Buenos Aires as a point of departure, this paper examines the divergent goals of the four largest German educational associations in Buenos Aires between 1890 and 1930. It studies the intersection of ideas about religion, nation, and language with the goal of detailing the varying criteria that defined ethnicity and Deutschtum. It analyzes ideas about childhood and lineage because gendered concerns about the cultural identity and the linguistic abilities of children appear to have been centrally important for the men who ran these associations. Finally, it examines the concept of Deutschtum as it was used in Buenos Aires and in relation to education. These autonomous associations, while in contact with the Foreign Office in Berlin, were not tools of empire but rather community institutions created and funded by immigrant members with the goal of perpetuating their ethnicity in a very multiethnic Argentine society.

This paper argues that ideas about family, religion, and ethnicity were the dominant factors that motivated parents and ethnic elites to build, fund, and offer support to German-language schools in Buenos Aires.

CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF ARRIVAL OF HINDI CINEMA IN CARIBBEAN

by Suresh Pillai

This essay is a survey of some cultural issues, events and personalities which form the cultural background of Indian... more This essay is a survey of some cultural issues, events and personalities which form the cultural background of Indian Diaspora when Hindi cinema started arriving since early 1940s.

"They Couldn't Mash Ants": The Decline of the White and Non-White Elites in Antigua, 1834-1900

by Susan Lowes

Originally published in Small Islands, Large Questions: Society, Culture, and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean, edited by Karen Fog Olwig (London: Cass, 1995).

The Friendly Island: A Report on How Tourism Developed in St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles

by Susan Lowes

Unpublished paper, written in 1977.

The 1918 Riots: "Them Planters Got Well Shook Up"

by Susan Lowes

This is the story of the 1918 riots, when the people from town and country stood up to the planters.