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Introduction -- Ideological consensus and the two-party system -- The national parties, Asian Americans and the campaign finance controversy -- Asian American congressional representation -- Silence, mobilization, and the future of Asian American politics

In American Tropics, Allan Punzalan Isaac explores American fantasies about the Philippines and other "unincorporated" parts of the US nation that obscure the contradictions of a democratic country possessing colonies. Isaac examines the American empires images of the Philippines in Hollywood films such as Blue Hawaii and novels such as Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart and Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters

In the mid-20th century nations across Africa fought for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these struggles, this work probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political and social lives of African Americans

In the wake of World War II, when roughly half the black population left the South seeking greater opportunity and freedom in the North and West, the same desire often anchored African Americans to the South. Adams offers a powerful reinterpretation of the modern civil rights movement and of the transformations in black urban life within the contexts of migration, work, and urban renewal

England, France, and the foreign context of American politics -- Federalists, Republicans, and popular politics in the early 1790s -- The firestorm and the counterattack : first soundings in the public debate -- The words of tongue and pen : the rhetorical war over the Jay Treaty -- Petitions, instructions, and the duties of citizens and representatives -- The final push : the debate in Congress and out-of-doors -- Reflections on the debate

"This ambitious book offers a clear and unified framework for understanding political change across Latin America. The impact of U.S. hegemony and the global economic system on the region is widely known, and scholars and advocates alike point to Latin America's vulnerability in the face of external forces. In spite of such foreign pressure, however, individual countries continue to chart their own courses, displaying considerable variation in political and economic life

Civil society and the control of political power -- Social accountability: an introduction / Enrique Peruzzotti and Catalina Smulovitz -- The effectiveness of law: civil society and the public prosecution in Brazil / Rosangela Batista Calvancanti -- Judicialization of protest in Argentina: the case of Corralito / Catalina Smulovitz -- Multiple activation as a strategy of citizen accountability and the role of the investigating legislative commissions / Ana Tereza Lemos-Nelson and Jorge Zaverucha -- Critical junctures of social accountability: lessons from Latin America / Nuria Cunill Grau -- Violent police, passive citizens: the failure of social accountability in Chile / Claudio A. Fuentes -- Social accountability in Mexico: the civic alliance experience / Alberto J. Olvera Rivera -- Mobilization and accountability: a study of social control in the "Cabezas" case in Argentina / Jacqueline Behrend -- Watchdog journalism and social accountability -- Media scandals and social accountability: assessing the role of the senate scandal in Argentina / Enrique Peruzzotti -- Reading scandals: scandals, media, and citizenship in contemporary Argentina / Silvio R. Waisbord -- Some theoretical issues -- Accountability and civil society / Andrew Arato -- Social accountability in Latin America and beyond / Adam Przeworski -- Notes on various accountabilities and their interrelations / Guillermo O'Donnell -- Concluding remarks / Enrique Peruzzotti and Catalina Smulovitz

The start of a movement : the New York Bureau of Industries and Immigration, 1908-1914 -- The California plan : the Commission of Immigration and Housing, 1913-1917 -- An unhealthy relationship : eugenics and americanization in New York, 1914-1917 -- Americanizing the home : housing reform and the California Home Teacher Act of 1915 -- Wartime americanization in the States : New York, California, and Massachusetts, 1917-1918 -- Cosmopolitanism cut short : the Illinois Immigrants Commission, 1919-1921 -- Schooling the immigrant : americanization and adult education, 1919-1929 -- Americanization versus restriction : immigrant social welfare policy in New York, California, and Massachusetts, 1919-1929

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Arab Americans, Then and Now -- A Socio-Psychological Approach to Explaining Residential Patterns -- Patterns of Segregation among Arab Americans -- Explaining the Locational Attainment of Arab Americans -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

The ambivalence of Americans abroad -- The rise and fall of the 1848 revolutions in American public culture -- The presidential campaign of 1848 : competing rhetorics of revolution -- American reform : transatlantic inspiration -- The conservative Christian alliance -- Secession or revolution? : the south and the crisis of 1850 -- Louis Kossuth and the campaign of 1852 -- The antislavery movement as a crisis of American exceptionalism -- Epilogue : from 1848 to 1863

Foundational images in Latin America / Hugo Achugar -- Words, wars, and public celebrations : the emergence of Rioplatense print culture / William G. Acree, Jr -- Novels, newspapers, and nation : the beginnings of serial fiction in nineteenth-century Mexico / Amy E. Wright -- Toikove ñane retã! : republican nationalism at the battlefield crossings of print and speech in wartime Paraguay, 1867-1868 / Michael K. Huner -- Forms of historic imagination : visual culture, historiography, and the tropes of war in nineteenth-century Venezuela / Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephan -- Anything goes : carnivalesque transgressions in nineteenth-century America / John Charles Chasteen -- Performing the Porfiriato : Federico Gamboa and the negotiation of power / Stuart A. Day -- The imponderable and the permissible : caste wars, culture wars, and Porfirian piety in the Yucatan Peninsula / Terry Rugeley -- Birds of a feather : pollos and the nineteenth-century prehistory of Mexican homosexuality / Christopher Conway -- Unveiling the mask of modernity : a critical gendered perspective of Amistad Funesta and the early chronicles of Jose Martí / Patricia Swier -- A brief syphilography of nineteenth-century Latin America / Juan Carlos Gonzaléz-Espitia

Intro -- THE LAND AND MARITIME BOUNDARYDISPUTES OF THE AMERICAS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- MEASUREMENT UNITS IN ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES AND CITATIONS -- LIST OF COUNTRIES WITHINTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY DISPUTES -- ENTRIES A - Z -- ADELAIDE ISLAND -- AMAZON RIVER -- ANTARCTICA -- ARCATAO -- ARCTIC OCEAN -- ARGENTINA-BRAZIL-URUGUAY TRIPOINT -- ARGENTINA-CHILE BOUNDARY -- ARGENTINA-PARAGUAY BOUNDARY -- ATACAMA DESERT -- ATACAMA TRENCH -- AVES ISLAND -- BEAGLE CHANNEL -- BELIZE-GUATEMALAN BOUNDARY -- BIRD ISLAND -- BOID ISLAND -- BRASILERA ISLAND -- BRAZIL-ARGENTINA-URUGUAY TRIPOINT -- BRAZIL-GUYANA-SURINAME TRIPOINT -- BRAZIL-PARAGUAY BOUNDARY -- BRAZIL-URUGUAY BOUNDARY -- CARIBBEAN SEA -- CERRO PITAL -- CHILE-ARGENTINA BOUNDARY -- COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA BOUNDARY -- CORDILLERA DEL CONDOR -- COURANTYNE RIVER -- DIXON ENTRANCE -- ECUADOR-PERU BOUNDARY -- EL SALVADOR-HONDURAS BOUNDARY -- EL TIGRE ISLAND -- ESSEQUIBO RIVER -- FALKLAND ISLANDS -- FONSECA, GULF OF -- FRENCH GUIANA-SURINAME BOUNDARY -- GEORGES BANK -- GLOVERS REEF -- GOASCORAN RIVER DELTA -- GREY ZONE -- GUALCUQUIN RIVER -- GUALSINGA RIVER -- GUANTANAMO BAY -- GUYANA BASIN -- GUYANA-BRAZIL-SURINAME TRIPOINT -- GUYANA-SURINAME BOUNDARY -- GUYANA-VENEZUELA BOUNDARY -- HANS ISLAND -- HONDURAS-EL SALVADOR BOUNDARY -- INVERNADA, STREAM OF -- JAEN PROVINCE -- JUAN DE FUCA, STRAIT OF -- KUTARI RIVER -- LA PLATA RIVER -- LAGUNA DEL DESIERTO -- LAS CAÑAS RIVER -- LENNOX, PICTON AND NUEVA ISLANDS -- LOMONOSOV RIDGE -- LOS MONJES ISLANDS -- MACHIAS SEAL ISLAND -- MAINE, GULF OF -- MALVINAS, ISLAS -- MAYNAS PROVINCE -- MEANGUERA AND MEANGUERITA -- NAGUATERIQUE -- NAVASSA ISLAND -- NEGRO-QUIAGARA RIVER -- NEW RIVER -- NEW RIVER TRIANGLE -- NORTH POLE -- NORTH ROCK -- NUEVA ISLAND -- OSCURA STREAM -- PACACIO RIVER -- PARAGUAY-ARGENTINA BOUNDARY -- PARAGUAY-BRAZIL BOUNDARY -- PARANA RIVER.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Racial Identities and Their Interpreters in Colonial Latin America -- 1. Aristocracy on the Auction Block: Race, Lords, and the Perpetuity Controversy of Sixteenth-Century Peru -- 2. A Market of Identities: Women, Trade, and Ethnic Labels in Colonial Potosí -- 3. Legally Indian: Inquisitorial Readings of Indigenous Identity in New Spain -- 4. The Many Faces of Colonialism in Two Iberoamerican Borderlands: Northern New Spain and the Eastern Lowlands of Charcas -- 5. Humble Slaves and Loyal Vassals: Free Africans and Their Descendants in Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais, Brazil -- 6. Purchasing Whiteness: Conversations on the Essence of Pardo-ness and Mulatto-ness at the End of Empire -- 7. Patricians and Plebeians in Late Colonial Charcas: Identity, Representation, and Colonialism -- 8. Conjuring Identities: Race, Nativeness, Local Citizenship, and Royal Slavery on an Imperial Frontier (Revisiting El Cobre, Cuba) -- 9. Indigenous Citizenship: Liberalism, Political Participation, and Ethnic Identity in Post-Independence Oaxaca and Yucatán -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Criminal violence has come dramatically to the forefront in contemporary Latin America, to the extent that it is widely considered the critical social concern of the present. Youth are among the principal victims but also the primary perpetrators of this new panorama of brutality. At the same time, the phenomenon remains profoundly misunderstood, as sensationalist myths and stereotypes abound. Through the juxtaposition of wide-ranging, cutting-edge studies focusing specifically on youth gangs and the dynamics of juvenile justice, this volume provides a balanced and systematic comparative overview of the reality of present-day Latin American youth violence

Inequality of opportunity : what it is, how it can be measured, and why it matters -- A human opportunity index for children -- Uses and policy applications of the human opportunity index -- Inequality of economic opportunity in seven Latin American countries -- Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in five Latin American countries.