Good Neighbor Empires: Children and Cultural Capital in the Americas

Author:   Elena Jackson Albarrán
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   04
ISBN:  

9789004709966


Pages:   330
Publication Date:   12 September 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Elena Jackson Albarrán
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   04
Weight:   0.702kg
ISBN:  

9789004709966


ISBN 10:   9004709967
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   12 September 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Acknowledgments List of Tables and Figures Introduction: Children, Empire, and Development in the Americas  1 Children and Youth Mobilized  2 Infantilized Subjects and Governability  3 Children as Subjects, Objects, and Agents  4 Chapter Organization Part 1: Artists Introduction to Part 1 1 Los tres grandes y unos chiquitos: Primitivism and Childhood in the Mexican Art Renaissance  1 The Infantilization of Latin America/ns  2 Childhood as a Metaphor for Development  3 Primitivism, Folklore, and the Indian in Modern Art  4 Institutionalizing Hemispheric Aesthetics  5 Conclusion 2 Primitive Geniuses: the Transnational Circulation of Children’s Art from Taxco  1 Guerrero and Vermont  2 A Word about Rescuing Children’s History from the Archive  3 Elsa Rogo and the Transnationality of the Open-Air Art School in Taxco  4 Taxco 1931: Primitive Paradise or Cosmopolitan Hub?  5 Techniques in the Taxco School  6 3,000 Miles from Mexico  7 Little Empresarios  8 Conclusion Part 2: Exiles Introduction to Part 2 3 Spanish Cubs of the Aztec Eagle: the Niños Españoles and Parenting as Statecraft  1 Manufacturing Public Opinion: the Spanish Civil War Comes to Mexico  2 From Mother Spain to Dependent of the Mexican State, 1519–1937  3 The Orphan Myth and Cardenista Family Metaphors  4 The Living Parents of Orphans  5 Conclusions 4 Tata Cárdenas and the Escuela España-México  1 The Escuela España-México  2 Tata Cárdenas: the Revolutionary Father Figure  3 Battle for Hearts and Minds: Communists and Catholics at the Escuela España-México  4 The Fate of the Niños de Morelia  5 Conclusions Part 3: Diplomats Introduction to Part 3 5 A Hemispheric Family Affair: Washington and the Other Americas  1 Pan-Americanism and the Two Americas  2 The Other Americas Talk Back  3 The PAU’s Division of Intellectual Cooperation  4 Children’s Exchanges as Official Pan-Americanism  5 Pan American Day  6 “We Make Sombreros!” Racial and Ethnic Representations of Latin America  7 “Once a Pan Am-er, Always a Pan Am-er”: Pan Americanism in the US Classroom  8 Conclusion 6 Diplomats of Development: Children’s Exchanges in a Wartime Economy  1 “Acercamiento Espiritual”: Vertical and Horizontal Ties  2 A Tale of Two Roberts: the “Short-Pants Ambassadors” of Wartime Brotherhood  3 Promoting Resource Knowledge about the Other Americas  4 Conclusion Epilogue Conclusions: Two Americas, Other Americas, Nuestra América Archives Bibliography Index

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Elena Jackson Albarrán, Ph.D. (2008), University of Arizona, is Associate Professor of History and Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University of Ohio. She is the author of the book Seen and Heard in Mexico: Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism (University of Nebraska Press, 2015), and co-editor of the volume Nuevas miradas a la historia de la infancia en América Latina: entre prácticas y representaciones (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2012), as well as several articles and chapters.

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