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Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Enduring the Curse: The Legacy of Intergenerational Trauma in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Haunting Legacies: Forging Afro-­Dominican Women's Identity in Loida Maritza Pérez's Geographies of Home -- Notes -- Chapter 4: "Boricua, Moreno": Laying Claim to Blackness in the Post-Civil Rights Era -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Afro-Latin Magical Realism, Historical Memory, Identity, and Space in Angie Cruz's Soledad and Nelly Rosario's Song of the Water Saints -- Notes

Race, Ethnicity, Class, and the Suburban Political Economy Dilemma -- New Neighbors in Suburban Washington, DC : Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Settlement Surrounding the Nation's Capital -- Educating Immigrant, Minority and Low-Income Students in Suburbia -- The Politics of Institutionalizing Day Labor Centers in Suburbia -- Lost in Translation : Language Access at Government Agencies in Suburbia.

ABSTRACTIn environmental politics, social movements play a crucial role, promoting participatory rights and confronting injustice, inequality, and the interests of the powerful. This article examines an underexplored topic in the literature on social movements, especially in Latin America: the use of litigation to force decisionmakers to comply with participatory formats, specifically in the course of opposition to hydroelectric dams. These projects often are destructive to the local environment and communities. This study examines four cases of environmental litigation that halted dam construction in Brazil and Chile, singling out causal pathways for successful collective action. It focuses on two dimensions of movement success: the implementation of participatory formats and the resulting cancellation of dam projects. In line with the joint effect model of social movement theory, the cross-case comparison of legal disputes shows that pursuing legal strategies in parallel to broad social mobilization and the support of institutional allies, can lead to successful outcomes.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The 1970s: A Decline in Anglo-American Specialness and US-UK Relations with Latin America -- 2 The Special Relationship and the Falklands War -- 3 Friend or Foe? The US Invades Grenada -- 4 Vested Interests: US Involvement in the Anglo-Guatemalan Dispute -- 5 Nicaragua: The Allies Stand Together -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Interviewees -- Select Bibliography -- Index

Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or "second generation" reforms. The State of State Reform in Latin America reviews and assesses the outcomes of these less studied institutional reforms. This book examines four major areas of institutional reform: a) political institutions and the state organization; b) fiscal institutions, such as budget, tax and decentralization institutions; c) public institutions in char

French efforts to develop latin american studies were noted by three recent conferences: one in Bordeaux, in 1963, on the "History of Latin America in the 20th century"; one in Toulouse, in 1964, on the "Problems of Cities in Latin America"; one in Paris, in October 1965, on the "Agrarian Problems in Latin American Countries." This last conference, like the preceding ones, was organized by the C. N. R. S. It took place at the Latin American Institute of Higher Studies of the University of Paris, under the chairmanship of Pierre Monbeig, professor at the Sorbonne and director of the Institute, and of Francois Chevalier, professor at the University of Bordeaux and director of the French Institute of Studies of the Andes.

Published to mark his 80th birthday, this volume consists of seven essays by Leslie Bethell on major themes in modern Brazilian history and politics: Brazil and Latin America; Britain and Brazil (1808-1914); The Paraguayan War (1864-70); The decline and fall of slavery (1850-1888); The long road to democracy; Populism; The failure of the Left. The essays are new, but they draw on book chapters and journal articles published (mainly in Portuguese) and public lectures delivered in the ten years since his retirement as founding Director of the University of Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies in 2007. In an autobiographical Introduction (Why Brazil?) Professor Bethell describes how, from the most unlikely of backgrounds, he became a historian of Brazil and how he came to devote much of his long academic career to the promotion and development of Brazilian studies in UK (and, to a lesser extent, US) universities. Leslie Bethell is one of the few great Brazilianists, as foreign scholars of Brazil are called, of his and subsequent generations. Brazilianists engage in scholarship that has breadth and depth; illuminate Brazil as an object of study, asking the most important questions that can be asked about the country; and give voice to Brazilian experiences and perspectives. Leslie Bethell has done these things during his long career, and he continues to do so, as this collection of his recent essays on Brazilian history and politics demonstrates. Anthony Pereira, Director, Brazil Institute, King's College London