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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Part one INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 State Terror in the U.S.–Latin American Interstate Regime -- Chapter 2 Operation Condor as a Hemispheric "Counterterror" Organization -- Part two CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO -- Chapter 3 "The Blood of the People" The Guardia Nacional's Fifty-year War against the People of Nicaragua, 1927–1979 -- Chapter 4 The Culture and Politics of State Terror and Repression in El Salvador -- Chapter 5 Caught in the Crossfire: Militarization, Paramilitarization, and State Violence in Oaxaca, Mexico -- Chapter 6 Bloody Deeds/Hechos Sangrientos: Reading Guatemala's Record of Political Violence in Cadaver Reports -- Chapter 7 U.S. Militarization of Honduras in the 1980s and the Creation of CIA-backed Death Squad -- chapter 8 "No Hay Rosas Sin Espinas" Statecraft in Costa Rica -- Part three SOUTH AMERICA -- Chapter 9 The Colombian Nightmare: Human Rights Abuses and the Contradictory Effects of U.S. Foreign Policy -- Chapter 10 The Path of State Terror in Peru -- Chapter 11 Turning on Their Masters: State Terrorism and Unlearning Democracy in Uruguay -- Chapter 12 Producing and Exporting State Terror The Case of Argentina -- Part four CONCLUSION -- chapter 13 New Responses to State Terror -- About the Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE Why Study the Public Discourse Metaphors Depicting Latinos? -- PART I Theory and Method -- CHAPTER TWO How Metaphor Shapes Public Opinion -- PART II Analyses -- CHAPTER THREE Proposition 187: Misrepresenting Immigrants and Immigration -- CHAPTER FOUR Proposition 209: Competing Metaphors for racism and affirmative action -- CHAPTER FIVE Student as Means, Not End: Contemporary American Discourse on Education -- CHAPTER SIX American Discourse on nation and language: The ''English for the Children'' Referendum -- PART III Conclusions -- CHAPTER SEVEN Disese or intruder: Metaphors Constructing the Place of Latinos in the United States -- CHAPTER EIGHT Insurgent Metaphors: Contesting the Conventional Representations of Latinos -- Appendix: Tallies of Political Metaphors -- Notes -- References -- Permissions Acknowledgments -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Popular Challenges and Elite Responses: An Introduction -- Cultures in Conflict: The Implication of Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Latin America -- Workers and Soldiers: Urban Labor Movements and Elite Responses in Twentieth-Century Latin America -- Notes -- University of St. Thomas B. K. Smith Lectures in History

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- A New Introduction: More than Three Decades of Writing on Spanish Central America, 1973-2006 -- Preface -- By Way of Introduction: The War of the Worlds -- Part One. THE SOCIETY OF CONQUEST AND ENCOMIENDA, 1520-1576 -- 1. The Central American Background and Conquest -- 2. Slaves and Silver: The First Exports -- 3. Ephemeral Hopes -- 4. Soconusco, A Hint of Things to Come -- 5. The Cacao Boom -- 6. From Conquest to the Emergence of Order and Pattern -- 7. The Two Republics, Indians and Spaniards, in the Age of Encomienda -- Part Two. YEARS OF TRIAL AND MUCH ERROR: THE ECONOMICS OF SEARCH AND DIVERSIFICATION, C. 1576-1635 -- 8. Attempts to Revive Declining Industries -- 9. The Search for New Industries and Trades -- 10. Indigo, 1580-1720: Possibilities and Frustrations -- 11. The Effects of the Crisis on Local Populations and Economy -- Part Three. THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY DEPRESSION AND THE FIRST SIGNS OF RECOVERY, C. 1635-1720 -- 12. The Aftermath of a Boom: Seventeenth-Century Cacao -- 13. Honduran Mining: The Emergence of a Local Industry and Culture -- 14. External Trades in the Depth of the Depression -- 15. The Currency Crisis -- 16. Men and Land in Mid-Century: Contraction and Isolation -- 17. The Two Republics in the Years of Depression -- 18. Costa Rican Cacao -- 19. Signs of Strain and Change (c. 1685-1720) -- 20. The Growth of a New Solution: The Rise of Smuggling -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

Moves the discussion of American civil religion into the twenty-first century Civil Religion, a term made popular by sociologist Robert Bellah a little over fifty years ago, describes how people might share in a sacred sense of their nation. While hotly debated, the idea continues to enjoy wide application among academics and journalists. Bellah used civil religion to make sense of the turmoil of the 1960s, especially moral debates provoked by the Vietnam War. Now, a half-century later, American society is again riven by conflict over immigration, economic inequality, racial oppression, and "culture wars" issues. Is Bellah's hopeful assessment still useful for understanding contemporary America? If not, how should we think of it differently?Civil Religion Today reassesses the term to take stock of its usefulness after fifty years of engagement in the field. Looking both at the concept and at ground-level studies of how we might find civil religion in practice, this book aims to push the conversation forward, considering how and in what ways it is helpful in our current social and political context, evaluating which parts are worth keeping, which can be reformulated, and which can now be usefully discarded. It suggests we go "beyond Bellah" in theory and practice, thinking about American society in a new century

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Daniel H. Krymkowski documents the extent and causes of African American underrepresentation in the cultural realms of golf, hiking, hunting and fishing, water and winter sports, classical music, art, ballet, and theater. He argues racial-ethnic inequality in these areas is extensive and results mainly from historic and contemporary discrimination.

"Scholars have paid relatively little attention to the highbrow, middlebrow, and popular periodicals that African Americans read and discussed regularly during the Jim Crow era-publications such as the Chicago Defender, the Crisis, Ebony, and the Half-Century Magazine. Jim Crow Networks considers how these magazines and newspapers, and their authors, readers, advertisers, and editors worked as part of larger networks of activists and thinkers to advance racial uplift and resist racism during the first half of the twentieth century. As Eurie Dahn demonstrates, authors like James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, and Jean Toomer wrote in the context of interracial and black periodical networks, which shaped the literature they produced and their concerns about racial violence. This original study also explores the overlooked intersections between the black press and modernist and Harlem Renaissance texts, and highlights key sites where readers and writers worked toward bottom-up sociopolitical changes during a period of legalized segregation"--

1. Introduction: Popular Communication, an Epistemological Debate between South and North; Ana Cristina Suzina -- Part I. The Roots of an Epistemology -- 2. Thinking about Communication from the Global South. Subjectivities Construction in Latin America: An Overview; Aníbal Orué Pozzo -- 3. Popular and Communitarian Communication in Rural Social Movements: Beyond "Diffusionism" to Emancipatory Participation; Cicilia M. Krohling Peruzzo -- 4. Faith, Communication and Commitment to Liberation; Washington Uranga -- 5. The Vestiges of the Concept of Popular in Latin America; Santiago Gómez Obando -- Part II. A Method, a Pedagogy, a Practice -- 6. Disenchantment as a Path Toward Autonomy: Orlando Fals Borda, Participatory Action Research, Communication and Social Change; Jair Vega-Casanova -- 7. A Praise of Dignity in Educational Practice; Daniel Prieto Castillo -- 8. Popular Radios: Constants and Tensions; María Cristina Mata -- 9. Popular Communication in Latin America: A Look at the Actors Who Build Bridges; Nívea Canalli Bona -- Part III. Decolonial Perspectives -- 10. The Decolonial Nature of Comunicação Popular; Leonardo Custódio -- 11. Digital Media and Emancipation in Latin American Communication Thinking; Dorismilda Flores-Márquez -- 12. Communication and Vivir Bien/Buen Vivir: In the Care of Our Common Home; Adalid Contreras Baspineiro.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations/Acronyms -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Setting the Scene -- 1.1.1 The Ways and Moments in Which IIL Frustrates States´ Protection of Human Rights in Latin America -- 1.1.2 The Functional Underpinning of IIL as the Reason Behind the Limited Success of Human Rights Argumentation in States´ Fav... -- 1.1.3 The Need for Re-politicising IIL in View of Its Increasing Problematic Interplay with States´ Protection of Human Rights -- 1.2 Hypothesis, Aims and Structure of This Study -- 1.3 Methodology and Significance -- References -- Chapter 2: The Politicisation of International Legal Instruments Protecting Foreign Investment in Latin America Through States... -- 2.1 Politicisation Through States´ Articulation of the Right to Freely Determine the Legal Scope of Foreign Property Rights´ P... -- 2.1.1 Definition of States´ Obligations vis-à-vis Foreign Nationals in Case of Pecuniary Damages -- 2.1.1.1 Legal Doctrines and Domestic State Practice -- 2.1.1.2 Regional State Practice -- 2.1.2 Establishment of Limitations Upon Inter-State Arbitration of Diplomatic Protection Claims -- 2.1.2.1 Denial of Justice and Local Remedies Rules -- 2.1.2.2 By Means of the Calvo Clause in Investor-State Contracts -- 2.1.3 Preliminary Conclusions -- 2.2 Politicisation Through States´ Articulation of the Right to Expropriate Foreign Property (1930-1980) -- 2.2.1 Definition of States´ Obligations Vis-à-vis Foreign Nationals in Case of Expropriation of Property Rights -- 2.2.1.1 Domestic State Practice -- 2.2.1.2 Regional State Practice -- 2.2.2 Establishment of Limitations Upon International Arbitration of Investor-State Contract-Based Disputes -- 2.2.2.1 National and Regional Practice -- 2.2.2.2 Latin American Refusal to Adhere to the ICSID Convention -- 2.2.3 Preliminary Conclusions.

American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War II but also in the public understanding of nuclear weaponry. A truly trans-Pacific history, American Survivors challenges the dualistic distinction between Americans-as-victors and Japanese-as-victims often assumed by scholars of the nuclear war. Using more than 130 oral histories of Japanese American and Korean American survivors, their family members, community activists, and physicians - most of which appear here for the first time - Naoko Wake reveals a cross-national history of war, illness, immigration, gender, family, and community from intimately personal perspectives. American Survivors brings to light the history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that connects, as much as separates, people across time and national boundaries.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Gold Doesn't Rust: Regions of the North American Mind -- 2 Transplanted Identities -- 3 Back to the Garden: Redesigning the Factory for a Post-industrial Era -- 4 The Deindustrializing Heartland -- 5 In Defence of Local Community -- 6 'I'll Wrap the F*#@ Canadian Flag around Me': A Nationalist Response to Plant Shutdowns -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Interview Guide -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index