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This commentary examines the demise in 2010 of the Kampala City Council, and the factors that led to its replacement by the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA). It outlines some of the different institutional arrangements associated with the establishment of KCCA and resulting changes in the overall management of the city, the outcomes of those changes, and the implications for Uganda's decentralisation processes, as analysed through the specific lens of the city's revenues. Finally, it discusses how many of these reforms may be, perhaps necessarily, short-lived as a result of the tensions they created.

The essay addresses the depiction of the Niagara Falls as an ambivalent symbol of progress in nineteenth-century Mexican travel accounts of the United States. At that time, various Mexican intellectuals spent some time in the USA. In diaries and travelogues, some of them articulated their views of their host country but also reflected on their own society through the contrast with their northern neighbor. The Mexican visitors expressed a particular fascination with signs of modernity in the United States. Interestingly, such signifiers included not only political and social institutions and economic and industrial advancements, but also the Niagara Falls as a site of both natural and technological wonders. Examining the depiction of the Falls in major nineteenth-century Mexican travelogues of the United States, the essay illuminates some of the metaphorical "uses of nature" for articulating socio-political ideas as well as experiences of mobility.

The essay addresses the depiction of the Niagara Falls as an ambivalent symbol of progress in nineteenth-century Mexican travel accounts of the United States. At that time, various Mexican intellectuals spent some time in the USA. In diaries and travelogues, some of them articulated their views of their host country but also reflected on their own society through the contrast with their northern neighbor. The Mexican visitors expressed a particular fascination with signs of modernity in the United States. Interestingly, such signifiers included not only political and social institutions and economic and industrial advancements, but also the Niagara Falls as a site of both natural and technological wonders. Examining the depiction of the Falls in major nineteenth-century Mexican travelogues of the United States, the essay illuminates some of the metaphorical "uses of nature" for articulating socio-political ideas as well as experiences of mobility. ; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7hp561nv

The essay analyzes the political-poetic vision of Latin America formulated in the literary, autobiographical, and essayist works of the black U.S.-American writer Langston Hughes. Hughes was not only one of the most outstanding and prolific artists of the Harlem Renaissance but also the one most interested Latin America and most closely engaging with Latin American artists, intellectuals, and "ordinary" people. He lived in Mexico for some time, paid several visits to Cuba, and wrote about these experiences in his two volumes of autobiography as well as in various poems and essays. Focusing in particular on his encounters with the black and indigenous populations of the two countries, these texts articulate a vision of an Afro-diasporic and leftist political consciousness. Latin America emerges here as a "continent of color," a hemisphere especially shaped by the experiences of peoples of non-European descent. Hughes's engagement with the black and indigenous cultures of Latin America further forms part of the writer's larger vision of a global "world of color" that he sets against the hegemony of European and Euro-American thought.

The Mexican American writer Richard Rodríguez and the now retired Bolivian mathematics teacher Jaime Escalante are two of the most significant figures in public discourses about the situation of Latina/os in the United States educational system. Their positions have crucially informed the educational political debates about affirmative action and bilingual education in the 1980s and '90s far beyond educational political circles and the Latina/o community at issue. Rodríguez became famous for his autobiography Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1981) and Escalante for his work with minority students in the California public schoolsystem, which was brought to a larger public through the screen biography Stand and Deliver (1988). To different degrees, though, both men stirred controversy for advocating Latina/o assimilation to Anglo­American educational norms. The essay looks at Hunger of Memory and Stand and Deliver in the context of the public discourses on Latina/o education in the United States during the 1980s and '90s and also examines how Rodríguez and Escalante have be come public actors in the larger national controversies over bilingual education, affirmative action,the ideal of multiculturalism, and Latina/o identity politics. ; http://interamerica.de/volume-4-1/haas/