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Though born in the United States, Anne Douglas Sedgwick moved to England at the age of 9 and lived there for the rest of her life. Reflecting her own upbringing spanning the New World and the Old World, Sedgwick often concocted plots that juxtaposed these two cultures. In Adrienne Toner, an American girl finds herself navigating the unfamiliar territory of English society

Joe Biden's election has raised many expectations. However, due to long-established legacies and predominant bipartisan consensus around the United States' Western Hemisphere policy, changes will be in tone rather than in substance. Four topics will shape the agenda. Post-COVID-19 reconstruction: With the pandemic raging across the region, a return to a "business as usual" approach will not meet the Latin American people's urgent economic, political, and social needs. COVID-19 has further brought to light the region's structural problems, including but not limited to poverty, inequality, and insecurity.
Migration: Biden has promised to boost the resources sent to Central American countries by USD 4 billion in the hope of reducing immigration to the US. The president wants to carry out a so-far-abstract and light migration reform as well. However, there is no discernible strategy to deal with the rest of the hemisphere's challenges (e.g. the Venezuelan crisis). Democracy: Not every president is happy with the election's result. From Mexico to Brazil, passing through Central America, some governments identified with Donald Trump's confrontational rhetoric and profited from his disregard for their internal affairs. Among them, far-right leaders fear the end of the "free pass" granted to their heavy-handed and anti-democratic words and deeds.
Regional and global scenario: in the context of China's increasing economic and diplomatic presence in the region, Biden's appeal to restore US "hemispheric leadership" appears hollow. Trump's actions and the political cleavages he helped deepen have turned the US into a less reliable partner. As a consequence, Latin America will have to find its own answers, and new strategic partners to implement them. The region is essentially alone in weathering the COVID-19 and the structural problems the crisis exacerbates. In this context, Latin America and the European Union will need to undertake more relevant, autonomous joint strategic initiatives or resign themselves to being bystanders in others' commercial, technological, and geopolitical endeavours.

ObjectiveWe test one untested influence on whether Hispanics will assimilate into American society in a "straight line" or remain "segmented." The type of assimilation hinges on both how non‐Hispanics treat Hispanics and whether Hispanics desire assimilation. We argue that these behaviors depend on the social construction of Hispanics' identity, which in turn may depend in part on their skin tone.MethodsWe compare these two theoretical competing models in two ways. First, to a nationally representative sample, we randomly assign four images of Hispanic males who are two standard deviations apart in skin tone and gauge respondents' social acceptance of them. Second, using objective skin‐tone measures from the 2012 ANES oversample of Hispanics, we determine if skin tone correlates with beliefs over assimilation.ResultsFor the experimental evidence, we discover that whites and blacks do not discriminate across this range of skin tone for Hispanics. For the ANES data, we find no evidence that skin tone affects Hispanics willingness to assimilate into America.ConclusionThus, the typical skin tones of Hispanics do not affect the assimilation ideas of either non‐Hispanics or Hispanics.

The present article relates to the presence of several normal esthetic patterns in contemporary dance, with certain hegemonic cultural powers, using flow and friction concepts. The aim of this article is to highlight how much coreografhic elements can show of political performances in it's esthetic performance. The axis of our thematic analysis send us thus to Canclini, Gilroy and Louppe concepts, processes and theorizes of hibridization, acculturation and assimilation. ; O presente artigo relaciona a presença de variados padrões estéticos, usuais na Dança Contemporânea, com certos poderes culturais hegemônicos utilizando conceitos de fluxo e fricção. O objetivo deste artigo é ressaltar o quanto elementos coreográficos podem apresentar de performance política na sua performance estética. Nosso eixo de análise temática remete assim aos conceitos e processos de hibridização, aculturação e assimilação presentes em Canclini, Gilroy e Louppe.