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This article focuses on the oral and artifact-filled archive of a working-class Afro-Cuban family to create an intimate set of histories that illuminates the Americas as deeply connected and challenges the limits of national borders. The article explores the ways in which national identities assert themselves in the "private spaces" of migratory life through storytelling and the creation of collective memories, and how gender functions within these spaces. This family has created a master narrative about its own racially conscious, respectable, revolutionary Cuban working-class identity and practice that denies the centrality of international marriage and diasporic experiences to its making. Women's whispered stories, marginalized from the familial narrative, illuminate alternative meanings and motivations for the strategies that propelled their family into the center of the great conflicts of Cuban history.

This article argues that ideas of morality and respectability historically have been crucial to constructions of racial identity in Puerto Rico. Concerns about race, "decency", and sexuality have in turn played important roles in the articulation of collective political identities. The article focuses on the anti-prostitution campaigns of the 1890's in Ponce, in which, despite their struggles to the contrary, working women judged sexually unruly were harassed, denounced, and ultimately discursively darkened. This decade-long process facilitated the creation of a historical first in Puerto Rico: a powerful, racially-neutral political alliance between plebeian and elite men within the Liberal Party. URI:http://hdl.handle.net/11721/1505 ; Este artículo plantea que históricamente los conceptos de "lo moral" y "lo respetable" han sido cruciales en las construcciones de identidades raciales en Puerto Rico. Por otra parte, las preocupaciones sobre raza, "decencia" y comportamiento sexual han jugado un papel importantes en las articulaciones de identidades políticas. El artículo examina las campañas para controlar la prostitución durante la década del 1890 en Ponce. A pesar de su resistencia, mujeres obreras denominadas sexualmente desordenadas fueron denunciadas, hostigadas y denigradas racialmente por la prensa, la policía y el público. Este proceso implicó por primera vez en la historia de Puerto Rico una alianza política racialmente neutral entre hombres plebeyos y elites, encarnada en el Partido Liberal Autonomista. URI:http://hdl.handle.net/11721/1505

Cet article analyse les récits de vie de femmes migrantes qui retournent à Porto Rico de New York. Il se concentre sur les aspects culturels des mouvements migratoires de retour au pays, notamment sur la manière dont les narratrices ont différencié leur identité collective de celle des portoricains nés et élevés à Porto Rico. Ces narratrices ont reformulé leurs récits de vie en termes de fables caractérisées par une morale de mobilité de classe, des limitations basées sur le genre et le rejet social sur l'Île. Ces histories de vie ont mis l'accent sur les différences radicales entre les portoricains de classe moyenne et la diaspora ouvrière à New York. Les narratrices ont également créé un organisme qui a renforcé leur identité de «Latin New Yorker», inventée sur l'Île.

This is a smart and sobering book. It reminds us of the central role of violence and coercion which lay at the heart of state formation, the transition from slavery to "free" labor, and colonial rule. Taking a somber step back from social history's sometimes triumphalist emphasis on resistance, Diana Paton takes her readers to the cracking of whips, the dank cells of gaol houses, the groaning turning of the often bloody tread mill, and the brutal labor of prison gangs which haunted the lives of slaves, "apprentices", and freed people alike. She quite deliberately avoids sensationalistic descriptions, instead producing an apparently dispassionate account, fueled by a deep undercurrent of rage.

Family and fatherhood in "a new era for all" : populist politics and reformed colonialism -- Building homes, domesticity dreams, and the drive to modernity -- Removing "excess population" : redirecting the great migration -- Arriving in Michigan : the collapse of the dream -- The brega expands.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Transformations in Honor, Status, and Law over the Long Nineteenth Century -- I. LIBERALISM, STATUS, AND CITIZENSHIP -- Private crimes, public order: honor, gender, and the law in early republican Peru -- Community service, liberal law, and local custom in indigenous villages: Oaxaca, 1750–1850 -- The ''spirit'' of Bolivian laws: citizenship, patriarchy, and infamy -- Interpreting Machado de Assis: paternalism, slavery, and the free womb law -- Slavery, liberalism, and civil law: definitions of status and citizenship in the elaboration of the Brazilian civil code (1855–1916) -- II. POPULAR USES OF THE LAW -- Trading insults: honor, violence, and the gendered culture of commerce in Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1870s–1950s -- Sex and standing in the streets of Port Limón, Costa Rica, 1890–1910 -- Slandering citizens: insults, class, and social legitimacy in Rio de Janeiro's criminal courts -- Courtroom tales of sex and honor: rapto and rape in late-nineteenth-century Puerto Rico -- The changing politics of freedom and virginity in Rio de Janeiro, 1920–1940 -- III. THE POLICING OF PUBLIC SPACE -- The plena's dissonant melodies: leisure, racial policing, and nation in Puerto Rico, 1900–1930s -- Prostitutes and the law: the uses of court cases over pandering in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the twentieth century -- The stigmas of dishonor: criminal records, civil rights, and forensic identification in Rio de Janeiro, 1903–1940 -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- American Encounters/Globallnteractions -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- I: Theoretical Concerns -- Close Encounters: Toward a New Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations -- The Decentered Center and the Expansionist Periphery: The Paradoxes of Foreign-Local Encounter -- The Enterprise of Knowledge: Representational Machines of Informal Empire -- II: Empirical Studies -- Landscape and the Imperial Subject: US. Images of the Andes, 1859- 1930 -- Love in the Tropics: Marriage, Divorce, and the Construction of Benevolent Colonialism in Puerto Rico, 1898-1910 -- Mercenaries in the Theater of War: Publicity, Technology, and the Illusion of Power during the Brazilian Naval Revolt of 1893 -- The Sandino Rebellion Revisited: Civil War, Imperialism, Popular Nationalism, and State Formation Muddied Up Together in the Segovias of Nicaragua, 1926-1934 -- The Cult of the Airplane among US. Military Men and Dominicans during the US. Occupation and the Trujillo Regime -- Central American Encounters with Rockefeller Public Health, 1914-1921 -- Living in Macondo: Economy and Culture in a United Fruit Company Banana Enclave in Colombia -- From Welfare Capitalism to the Free Market in Chile: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Copper Mines -- Everyday Forms of Transnational Collaboration: US. Film Propaganda in Cold War Mexico -- Gringo Chickens with Worms: Food and Nationalism in the Dominican Republic -- III: Final Reflections -- Turning to Culture -- Social Fields and Cultural Encounters -- From Reading to Seeing: Doing and Undoing Imperialism in the Visual Arts -- Contributors -- Index