Author: Lois Terry MarchbanksPublisher:
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Category : Pan American Round Table
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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The Pan American Round Table
Author: Lois Terry MarchbanksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pan American Round Table
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Bulletin of the Pan American Union
Author: Pan American UnionPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Bulletin
Author: Pan American UnionDesigning Pan-America
Author: Robert Alexander GonzálezPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292784945
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Coinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), González explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America. Late in the nineteenth century, U.S. commercial and political interests began eyeing the countries of Latin America as plantations, farms, and mines to be accessed by new shipping lines and railroads. As their desire to dominate commerce and trade in the Western Hemisphere grew, these U.S. interests promoted the concept of "Pan-Americanism" to link the United States and Latin America and called on U.S. architects to help set the stage for Pan-Americanism's development. Through international expositions, monuments, and institution building, U.S. architects translated the concept of a united Pan-American sensibility into architectural or built form. In the process, they also constructed an artificial ideological identity—a fictional Pan-America peopled with imaginary Pan-American citizens, the hemispheric loyalists who would support these projects and who were the presumed benefactors of this presumed architecture of unification. Designing Pan-America presents the first examination of the architectural expressions of Pan-Americanism. Concentrating on U.S. architects and their clients, Robert Alexander González demonstrates how they proposed designs reflecting U.S. presumptions and projections about the relationship between the United States and Latin America. This forgotten chapter of American architecture unfolds over the course of a number of international expositions, ranging from the North, Central, and South American Exposition of 1885–1886 in New Orleans to Miami's unrealized Interama fair and San Antonio's HemisFair '68 and encompassing the Pan American Union headquarters building in Washington, D.C. and the creation of the Columbus Memorial Lighthouse in the Dominican Republic.
Industrial Series
Author: Industrial Series
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic CommercePublisher:
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Pan American Associations in the United States
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Category : Pan American societies
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Pan-American Magazine
Author: William W. RasorPublisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Reading, Writing, and Revolution
Author: Philis Barrágan GoetzPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477320911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Language has long functioned as a signifier of power in the United States. In Texas, as elsewhere in the Southwest, ethnic Mexicans’ relationship to education—including their enrollment in the Spanish-language community schools called escuelitas—served as a vehicle to negotiate that power. Situating the history of escuelitas within the contexts of modernization, progressivism, public education, the Mexican Revolution, and immigration, Reading, Writing, and Revolution traces how the proliferation and decline of these community schools helped shape Mexican American identity. Philis Barragán Goetz argues that the history of escuelitas is not only a story of resistance in the face of Anglo hegemony but also a complex and nuanced chronicle of ethnic Mexican cultural negotiation. She shows how escuelitas emerged and thrived to meet a diverse set of unfulfilled needs, then dwindled as later generations of Mexican Americans campaigned for educational integration. Drawing on extensive archival, genealogical, and oral history research, Barragán Goetz unravels a forgotten narrative at the crossroads of language and education as well as race and identity.
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