Recife is the location of the first synagogue and the first Jewish community in the New World. The original Jewish community was formed during the period of the Dutch occupation and was mostly Sephardic. It wasn't until the second decade of the twentieth century that Jewish life in Recife was rekindled, this time mostly Ashkenazi. Even though the two periods of Jewish life are distinct, they both show signs of a similar underlying vitality.
{"title":"Recife: The Cradle of Jewish America","authors":"P. Viswanath","doi":"10.23870/MARLAS.232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23870/MARLAS.232","url":null,"abstract":"Recife is the location of the first synagogue and the first Jewish community in the New World. The original Jewish community was formed during the period of the Dutch occupation and was mostly Sephardic. It wasn't until the second decade of the twentieth century that Jewish life in Recife was rekindled, this time mostly Ashkenazi. Even though the two periods of Jewish life are distinct, they both show signs of a similar underlying vitality.","PeriodicalId":36126,"journal":{"name":"Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44571924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The more and less than literary: A Review of Adam Shellhorse’s Anti-Literature: The Politics and Limits of Representation in Modern Brazil and Argentina","authors":"Paula Cucurella","doi":"10.23870/MARLAS.236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23870/MARLAS.236","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36126,"journal":{"name":"Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49497729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Laura Zanotti. 2016. Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon: The Kayapo’s Fight for Just Livelihoods. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.","authors":"Warren Thompson","doi":"10.23870/MARLAS.245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23870/MARLAS.245","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36126,"journal":{"name":"Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43325527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review of Roberto Carlos Pérez. Un mundo maravilloso. Washington, DC: Casasola Editores, 2017.","authors":"Alberto Sanchez Arguello","doi":"10.23870/MARLAS.246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23870/MARLAS.246","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36126,"journal":{"name":"Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45848143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Graciela Maglia, J. Lipski, Juan Sebastián Mina, Yair Andre Cuenu
Las plazas de mercado de la ciudad de Cali constituyen un epicentro urbano en donde han confluido tradicionalmente migraciones afropacificas del pequeno campesinado en proceso de desarraigo rural y, mas recientemente, poblacion desplazada de areas aledanas, como Valle del Cauca, Cauca, Narino-Putumayo y Antioquia. Estos espacios comunitarios de intercambio mercantil, linguistico y cultural emergen en la ciudad como enclaves de comunicacion otra. Son un verdadero sitio de encuentro local que repolariza el empobrecido imaginario global impuesto por la sociedad de consumo y resacraliza las practicas cotidianas vaciadas de significacion por la modernizacion tecnologica. Los alimentos llegan por este corredor con sus sabores y saberes, sus mitos y sus ritos. Cada producto trae su cultura de extraccion y su fogon: asi la pesca, la ganaderia, la zafra. Nuestro articulo resulta de un acercamiento interdisciplinario al escenario de esta migracion afropacifica concurrente en la ciudad de Cali desde los anos cincuenta, a partir del trabajo etnografico alrededor de la plaza de mercado La Alameda desde diferentes campos del saber en ciencias sociales y humanas, los estudios visuales, los estudios culturales, la perspectiva de genero, la cultura material y los estudios afrodiasporicos. A partir de grabaciones realizadas en el espacio de la plaza, con informantes del Pacifico colombiano, elaboramos un estudio linguistico, literario y visual que analizamos poniendo en conexion las pistas textuales y visuales con los recientes debates sobre raza, identidad y memoria en la diaspora africana.
{"title":"Transacciones discursivas, economía simbólica y cocinas de la Afromemoria en la Plaza de Mercado de Cali","authors":"Graciela Maglia, J. Lipski, Juan Sebastián Mina, Yair Andre Cuenu","doi":"10.23870/MARLAS.233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23870/MARLAS.233","url":null,"abstract":"Las plazas de mercado de la ciudad de Cali constituyen un epicentro urbano en donde han confluido tradicionalmente migraciones afropacificas del pequeno campesinado en proceso de desarraigo rural y, mas recientemente, poblacion desplazada de areas aledanas, como Valle del Cauca, Cauca, Narino-Putumayo y Antioquia. Estos espacios comunitarios de intercambio mercantil, linguistico y cultural emergen en la ciudad como enclaves de comunicacion otra. Son un verdadero sitio de encuentro local que repolariza el empobrecido imaginario global impuesto por la sociedad de consumo y resacraliza las practicas cotidianas vaciadas de significacion por la modernizacion tecnologica. Los alimentos llegan por este corredor con sus sabores y saberes, sus mitos y sus ritos. Cada producto trae su cultura de extraccion y su fogon: asi la pesca, la ganaderia, la zafra. Nuestro articulo resulta de un acercamiento interdisciplinario al escenario de esta migracion afropacifica concurrente en la ciudad de Cali desde los anos cincuenta, a partir del trabajo etnografico alrededor de la plaza de mercado La Alameda desde diferentes campos del saber en ciencias sociales y humanas, los estudios visuales, los estudios culturales, la perspectiva de genero, la cultura material y los estudios afrodiasporicos. A partir de grabaciones realizadas en el espacio de la plaza, con informantes del Pacifico colombiano, elaboramos un estudio linguistico, literario y visual que analizamos poniendo en conexion las pistas textuales y visuales con los recientes debates sobre raza, identidad y memoria en la diaspora africana.","PeriodicalId":36126,"journal":{"name":"Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47548871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Little is known about the effects of transitional justice on the development of the rule of law. In Colombia, this Andean nation has used transitional mechanisms for more than a decade, and as part of the 2016 peace accord it is launching a second wave of transitional trials, a truth commission, amnesties, and reparations. Utilizing a case-study design, this article measures the impact of Colombia’s first wave, i.e., the Justice and Peace process, across five key rule of law indicators. Despite expectations in the literature that domestic trials are the primary casual mechanisms in enhancing the rule of law, this analysis finds that in the case of Colombia restorative elements, namely amnesties and reparations, were the drivers of limited change. More comprehensive reform was blocked by structural flaws within Law 975, the government’s ever-changing transitional framework, and the absence of the state in former conflict zones.
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This essay explores how faculty from three different disciplines (applied linguistics, history, and meteorology), all with expertise in Latin America, have promoted an interdisciplinary approach toward Latin American studies through their study of migration and climate. The essay begins by reviewing the history and significance of the U.S. Department of Defense’s LREC initiative on tertiary Spanish language education. The essay then describes how climate and human interests in Latin America can be integrated into undergraduate courses and research projects to leverage students’ intellectual interests (in their major subject) with other academic pursuits (via a minor in Spanish). Finally, the essay discusses how demographic changes in the U.S. have impacted higher education in Spanish. The essay concludes by reviewing some of the guidelines that professional organizations and universities have put in place in response to these challenges, and offers some suggestions for how academics might respond in their institutional contexts.
{"title":"What do migration and meteorology have to do with Latin American studies? Bridges across disciplines at the United States Naval Academy","authors":"Silvia M. Peart, Sharika D. Crawford, B. Barrett","doi":"10.23870/MARLAS.219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23870/MARLAS.219","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores how faculty from three different disciplines (applied linguistics, history, and meteorology), all with expertise in Latin America, have promoted an interdisciplinary approach toward Latin American studies through their study of migration and climate. The essay begins by reviewing the history and significance of the U.S. Department of Defense’s LREC initiative on tertiary Spanish language education. The essay then describes how climate and human interests in Latin America can be integrated into undergraduate courses and research projects to leverage students’ intellectual interests (in their major subject) with other academic pursuits (via a minor in Spanish). Finally, the essay discusses how demographic changes in the U.S. have impacted higher education in Spanish. The essay concludes by reviewing some of the guidelines that professional organizations and universities have put in place in response to these challenges, and offers some suggestions for how academics might respond in their institutional contexts.","PeriodicalId":36126,"journal":{"name":"Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42562275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amid intense racial tensions in 1930’s Brazil, Joao Francisco dos Santos, rises to prominence as one of Rio’s most famous malandros. Simultaneously feared and persecuted by Brazilian authorities for his violent reactionary outbursts on the one hand, and his sensual incarnation of the afro-Brazilian mulatta on the other hand, this article analyzes Karim Ainouz’s biopic Madame Sata, and examines the role that Joao’s religious beliefs plays on the conceptualization of his identity. This article contends that the concept of gender fluidity rooted in Afro- diasporic Yoruba religion provides a normative framework through which Joao contests the rigid ideations of gender and performance imposed on the black community by a patriarchal white society.
在20世纪30年代的巴西，在种族关系紧张的情况下，若昂·弗朗西斯科·多斯桑托斯(Joao Francisco dos Santos)成为了20世纪最著名的马兰德罗斯之一。若昂一方面因其暴力的反动行为而受到巴西当局的恐惧和迫害，另一方面又因其非裔巴西混血儿的感性化身而受到迫害。本文分析了Karim Ainouz的传记片《萨塔夫人》，并探讨了若昂的宗教信仰在他的身份概念化中所起的作用。本文认为，植根于非洲散居的约鲁巴宗教的性别流动性概念提供了一个规范框架，通过该框架，Joao对父权制白人社会强加给黑人社区的性别和表现的僵化观念提出了质疑。
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Poet Dlia McDonald Woolery is one of today's most prominent Afro-Costa Rican writers. A brief presentation of her publications, critical attention, and themes appears before a set of her unpublished poems.
{"title":"Dlia McDonald Woolery","authors":"María Roof","doi":"10.23870/MARLAS.228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23870/MARLAS.228","url":null,"abstract":"Poet Dlia McDonald Woolery is one of today's most prominent Afro-Costa Rican writers. A brief presentation of her publications, critical attention, and themes appears before a set of her unpublished poems.","PeriodicalId":36126,"journal":{"name":"Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68917184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Winner of the 2014 Brazilian Studies Association Roberto Reis Book Award, Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro offers a fascinating intervention into a number of fields that, ultimately, Carvalho weaves together to form a nuanced reading of the former Brazilian capital as a “porous city,” a clever and convenient near homophone of the concept of porosity the author develops throughout. The book is a highly recommended read for those with a moderate to strong foundation in Brazilian history and culture, though its chapters would serve as useful supplementary material for the graduate classroom. The author does a fine job of moving at an appropriate pace, and his conclusions never seem hastily formulated or exaggerated. Most of all, the considerable research that has gone into the work is commendable and offers plenty of jumping off points for those who would seek to build upon Carvalho’s reading of porosity.
{"title":"Book Review: Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro.","authors":"Andrew Frederick Milacci","doi":"10.23870/MARLAS.221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23870/MARLAS.221","url":null,"abstract":"Winner of the 2014 Brazilian Studies Association Roberto Reis Book Award, Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro offers a fascinating intervention into a number of fields that, ultimately, Carvalho weaves together to form a nuanced reading of the former Brazilian capital as a “porous city,” a clever and convenient near homophone of the concept of porosity the author develops throughout. The book is a highly recommended read for those with a moderate to strong foundation in Brazilian history and culture, though its chapters would serve as useful supplementary material for the graduate classroom. The author does a fine job of moving at an appropriate pace, and his conclusions never seem hastily formulated or exaggerated. Most of all, the considerable research that has gone into the work is commendable and offers plenty of jumping off points for those who would seek to build upon Carvalho’s reading of porosity.","PeriodicalId":36126,"journal":{"name":"Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43638379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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