Author: Maritza E. Cárdenas Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 0813592860 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 213
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Central Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the United States. And yet, despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on this group. Constituting Central American-Americans is an exploration of the historical and disciplinary conditions that have structured U.S. Central American identity and of the ways in which this identity challenges how we frame current discussions of Latina/o, American ethnic, and diasporic identities. By focusing on the formation of Central American identity in the U.S., Maritza E. Cárdenas challenges us to think about Central America and its diaspora in relation to other U.S. ethno-racial identities.
Author: Rolando Roblero Araúz Publisher: Palibrio ISBN: 1463334206 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 311
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La Nave del Recuerdo es una recopilación de varios de los mejores poemas y reflexiones del autor realizadas a lo largo de su dilatada vida. El amor y la familia aparecen como protagonistas del libro.
Author: Rodolfo E. Perez Curotto Publisher: Palibrio ISBN: 1463332556 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 179
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"Nuestra Historia en Poesía" es la compilación de los poemas escritos por mi Padre en 20 años de su vida. Aunque fue destacado comerciante, le encantaba transmitir sus sentimientos en poesías, con ese don tan hermoso de redactar con sencillez y transparencia. Mi sueño es dar a conocer tu obra literaria que para mí es bella y valiosísima. Ojalá el mundo entero te hubiera conocido personalmente, porque todos los que tuvieron esa dicha, guardan recuerdos hermosos de las huellas que dejaste en sus vidas; pero, para los que no tuvieron esa suerte, quedan tus poemas que estoy segura tocarán muchos corazones y ayudarán a más de uno a encontrar motivos para superarse, para vencer obstáculos, para celebrar la vida, para orar a Dios... gracias a tu inspiración y a tu capacidad de transmitir en forma hermosa tus más sublimes sentimientos. ¡¡¡TE AMO PAPITO Y SIEMPRE TE LLEVARE EN MI CORAZON!!!
Author: Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrandez Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134503180 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 200
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Hugo Chávez won re-election in the 2012 Venezuelan presidential election, despite a closer margin between candidates than in previous elections. The results were puzzling for those who believed that Chávez’s government had long ago reached its limits, while Chávez’s supporters were struck by the growth of the opposition vote. Thus understanding the Venezuelan election of 2012 has proved to be challenging, with various recent studies focused upon it. Luis F. Angosto Ferrández’s book advances two ideas not previously discussed: the relationship between electoral behavior in Venezuela and contemporary Latin American geopolitics, and the way that relationship is projected through the candidates’ appeal to narratives that situate Venezuela at the core of a heroic Latin American tradition and of a new regional process of integration. This edited volume first contextualizes and explains the results of the last re-election of Hugo Chávez in terms of its geopolitical conditionings and implications. Contributors tackle Latin American geopolitics by analyzing Venezuelan foreign policy and the country's role in continental projects of supra-national integration. Contributors also examine electoral strategy and tactics in order to show how the two main candidates built their campaign on emotional grounds as much on rational ones. This will be connected to the investigation of new narratives of national identification in contemporary Venezuela and how they may have practical implications in the design of policies addressing issues such as indigenous rights, community media and national security. Compiling state-of-the-art research on Latin American and Venezuelan politics, this book will appeal to academics and professionals who specialize in Latin American studies, international relations, democracy, and indigenous peoples.
Author: Salvador Rivera Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476605696 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 308
Book Description
This book investigates efforts to promote the political and economic unification of Latin America. Every generation in the region has known some effort toward these goals. There were four major stages. The first endeavors were undertaken by diplomats, the second by idealists, the third by technocrats and the fourth stage is now dominated by pro-unification political leaders. Efforts toward integration promote the economies and political stability of these countries—Latin Americans were among the first of the old “third world” people to advance such programs. The political unification of Latin America has been stymied by the political class but this trend is currently being reversed with the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR). The recent accession of Venezuela after a grueling political-ideological struggle (examined in the book) has spurred other countries to seek full membership in the group. It is now the third largest trade bloc in the world and is continuing to grow. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author: Massimo Borghesi Publisher: Liturgical Press ISBN: 0814687911 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 389
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A commonly held impression is that Pope Francis is a compassionate shepherd and determined leader but that he lacks the intellectual depth of his recent predecessors. Massimo Borghesi’s The Mind of Pope Francis: Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s Intellectual Journey dismantles that image. Borghesi recounts and analyzes, for the first time, Bergoglio’s intellectual formation, exploring the philosophical, theological, and spiritual principles that support the profound vision at the heart of this pope’s teaching and ministry. Central to that vision is the church as a coincidentia oppositorum, holding together what might seem to be opposing and irreconcilable realities. Among his guiding lights have been the Jesuit saints, Ignatius and Peter Faber; philosophers Gaston Fessard, Romano Guardini, and Alberto Methol Ferrer; and theologians Henri de Lubac and Hans Urs von Balthasar. Recognizing how these various strands have come together to shape the mind and heart of Jorge Mario Bergoglio offers essential insights into who he is and the way he is leading the church. Notably, this groundbreaking book is informed by four interviews provided to the author, via audio recordings, by the pope himself on his own intellectual formation, major portions of which are published here for the first time.
Author: Robert Patrick Newcomb Publisher: Purdue University Press ISBN: 1557536031 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 276
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Is Brazil part of Latin America or an island unto itself? As Nossa and Nuestra Am (c)rica: Inter-American Dialogues demonstrates, this question has been debated by Brazilian and Spanish American intellectuals alike since the early nineteenth century, though it has received limited scholarly attention and its answer is less obvious than you might think. This book charts Brazil's evolving and often conflicted relationship with the idea of Latin America through a detailed comparative investigation of four crucial Latin American essayists: Uruguayan critic Jos (c) Enrique Rod 3, Brazilian writer-diplomat Joaquim Nabuco, Mexican humanist Alfonso Reyes, and S (c)rgio Buarque de Holanda, one of Brazil's preeminent historians. The author argues that Brazil plays a necessary"and necessarily problematic"role in the intellectual construction of Latin America. Nossa and Nuestra Am (c)rica will be of interest to scholars and students of Latin American and Luso-Brazilian literature and ideas, and to anyone interested in rethinking comparative approaches to literary texts written in Portuguese and Spanish.
Author: Maria Clara Bingemer Publisher: CUA Press ISBN: 081323378X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 322
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In Tutti Fratelli, Pope Francis has called again for a “culture of encounter,” But how should his theology, pastoral practice, and social message be understood and applied in the Church of the Americas, a single but complex reality that extends from South to North? This volume offers analyses from experts looking back to the Argentine pontiff’s first fateful encuentros in the Americas as a help for understanding the present reality of the Church in the Western Hemisphere. The group includes theologians, historians, and political scientists, and the unique contribution of the volume lies in the panoramic perspective offered by the book as a whole. The initial essays set the stage for the volume as a whole, offering rich insight into Argentine and Latin American history, the world from which the Pope came and to which he returned in 2015, as well as surveying the impact of the Latin American “theology of the people” on the Pope’s visit to the U.S. Additional essays address theological, historical, and pastoral engagements that cut across several of the visits. The final group of essays is dedicated to the visits themselves and is arranged in the order that they occurred. Pope Francis and the Search for God in América is offered to all the members of the Church in América, South and North, old and young, with the hope that it will spur even more thought, reflection, prayer, and service.
Author: Stefan Rinke Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108132715 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 315
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Using a broad variety of textual and visual sources, Latin America and the First World War goes beyond traditional diplomatic history and analyzes the global dimension of the history of the Great War. Filling a significant gap in transnational histories of the war, Stefan Rinke addresses political, social, and economic aspects as well as the cultural impact of the war on Latin America and vice versa. Rinke's meticulous research is based on sources from the nineteen independent states of the entire subcontinent and promises to be the most comprehensive examination to date of Latin America before, during, and immediately after the war.
Author: Maritza E. Cárdenas
Author: Rolando Roblero Araúz
Author: Rodolfo E. Perez Curotto
Author: Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrandez
Author: Salvador Rivera
Author: Massimo Borghesi
Author: Robert Patrick Newcomb
Author: Maria Clara Bingemer
Author: Stefan Rinke
Author: James Alexander Robertson