Between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, an influx of Europeans, Asians, and Arabic speakers indelibly changed the face of Latin America. While many studies of this period focus on why ...the immigrants came to the region, this volume addresses how the newcomers helped construct national identities in the Caribbean, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil.
In these essays, some of the most respected scholars of migration history examine the range of responses--some welcoming, some xenophobic--to the newcomers. They also look at the lasting effects that Jewish, German, Chinese, Italian, and Syrian immigrants had on the economic, sociocultural, and political institutions. These explorations of assimilation, race formation, and transnationalism enrich our understanding not only of migration to Latin America but also of the impact of immigration on the construction of national identity throughout the world.
This article examines the efforts of historians and archeologists to rethink the role of pre-Columbian indigenous civilizations in the Ecuadorian past in the context of the ambiguity over the Inca ...legacy generated by rising nationalist tensions with Peru. The article focuses on the debate over the Kingdom of Quito, argued by the Jesuit Priest Juan de Velasco in his classic 18th-century text to have been a culturally advanced and technologically sophisticated civilization that occupied the territory north of Quito for centuries prior to the arrival of the Inca, and to have ferociously resisted their invasion. The idea of the Kingdom of Quito formed a key part of nationalist mythology during the 19th century, but came under scientific attack in the early 20th century as archeological methods advanced. This challenge to the foundational legend came at the very moment that the conflict with Peru over the Amazonian border made it more politically important than ever to trace resistance to Peruvian encroachment back through time. This article traces the political and intellectual dynamics of the scholarly debate, examining the racial and nationalist concerns that lay behind state interventions.
This article aims to explore the ways in which the tensions involved in nation‐building and state consolidation during the half‐century following the Liberal Revolution of 1895 in Ecuador were ...refracted through the locus of race and the manipulation of racial ideologies. It centres the state as the primary motor of nation‐building and racialisation, arguing that nation‐building and state formation in Ecuador operated in close conjunction, and that race was central to each. Through case studies of citizenship, education and the integration of territory and resources, it explores how state discourse and policy shaped the racial boundaries of national inclusion, and how these were negotiated and contested by subalterns at the level of the state.
An X-ray crystallographic study of dichlorophen has been performed. Intramolecular hydrogen bonding is found within the molecule and intermolecular hydrogen bonding is present between molecules. The ...formation of dimers within the crystal lattice has been established.
Reviews FOOTE, NICOLA
Journal of Latin American studies,
08/2007, Letnik:
39, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
...it emphasises the permeability of uprootedness. The book is as much about mestizaje as it is about blackness, but yet the ideology is almost never explicitly mentioned. ...while Fox repeatedly ...insists on the need to move away from slavery as the central facet of blackness: the experience of the Middle Passage is at the heart of her interpretation of the concepts of uprootedness and improvisation. ...it is not really suitable for the non-specialist or student.
Reviewed here are two, ostensibly very different, books about indigenous peasantries in Ecuador, each of which addresses issues arising from current indigenous mobilisation, including peasant agency ...based on pluriculturalism and plurinationalism. Of interest are ways in which a discourse about ethnicity and gender has been and is deployed, both by peasants and by the state, and how republican ideals of equality have been and are utilised by 'those below'. One book conceptualises state/peasant interaction as symbiotic, and has a broadly optimistic approach about the impact and the transformative potential of contemporary indigenous politics. The other, by contrast, sees the same relation as uniformly exploitative and oppressive, and takes a more pessimistic view, insisting that without land reform any political development in rural Ecuador will necessarily count for little.
