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Regionalism -- Latin America.
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Globalization -- Latin America.
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Latin America -- Foreign relations.
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Latin America -- Social conditions.
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Descript |
1 online resource (xviii, 356 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
Contents |
Part One: The Latin American past in the global present -- Looking at the Past and the Future without Fear: An Interview with Ricardo Lagos -- The Conversion of Francis: The First Latin American Pope and the Women He Needs -- Fidel Castro: The First Superdelegate -- Poem: "Cruces de fronteras / Border Crossings" -- From Illustrating Problems to Offering Solutions: Latin America as a Global Source of Social Innovation -- Manga: "Che Guevara" -- Part Two: Tongues and feet -- Borges's Library: Latin America, Language, and the World -- Love, Protest, Dance, Remix -- Poem: "Lo prohibido" -- Breaking the Machine: South American Fútbol -- Roy Choi, Ricardo Zárate, and Pacific Fusion Cuisine in Los Angeles -- Part Three: Science, Technology, and Health -- The Rise of Brazil's Globally Connected Amazon Soybean Agriculture -- Constructing Parallels: Brazilian Experts in Mozambique -- Poem: "Perfecto Flores" -- A Long Strange Trip: Latin America's Contribution to World Drug Culture -- Part Four: Communities -- Introduction to Rigoberta Menchú Tum -- Nobel Lecture -- Sex worker activism and labor -- Poem: 'Ajustes familiares / Family Adjustments' -- Latin American travel: the other side of tourism encounters -- Brazil circles the globe -- Part Five: Art moves the world -- The Latin American novel as international merchandise -- Traveling melodrama: Telenovelas and exporting southern moralities; or, how can something so bad still be so good? -- Poem: 'Los invisibles / Invisibility' -- The girl from Shinjuku: how a Japanese Brazilian diva keeps Bossa Nova alive in China -- 'More than a nationality' : an interview with Gael Garcia Bernal about Latin American cinema and the world. |
Alt author |
Gutmann, Matthew C., 1953- editor.
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Lesser, Jeff, editor.
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ISBN |
9780520965942 (electronic bk.) |
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0520965949 (electronic bk.) |
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9780520277724 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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0520277724 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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9780520277731 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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0520277732 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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