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This digital document is an article from Behavioral Health Management, published by Medquest Communications, LLC on July 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2227 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Treatment of ADHD in Latino populations: developing cultural competency for multiple populations is the major challenge.(Special Report)
Author: Ricardo B. Eiraldi
Publication: Behavioral Health Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2004
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Volume: 24Issue: 4Page: 34(2)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2006. The length of the article is 3809 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Cross-cultural reliability of the Health Perception Index and the Health Control and Competence Index.(Survey)
Author: Vincent Salyers
Publication: Journal of Nursing Scholarship (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2006
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Volume: 38Issue: 4Page: 387(5)

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Classic-Period Cultural Currents in Southern and Central Veracruz explores the diverse traditions and dynamic interactions along the Mexican Gulf lowlands at the height of their cultural florescence. Best known for their elaborate ballgame rituals and precocious inscriptions with long-count dates, these cultures served as a critical nexus between the civilizations of highland Mexico and the lowland Maya, influencing developments in both regions.

Eleven chapters penned by leading experts in archaeology, art history, and linguistics offer new insights into ancient iconography and writing, the construction of sociopolitical landscapes, and the historical interplay between local developments and external influences at Cerro de las Mesas, Tres Zapotes, Matacapan, and many lesser-known sites. The result is a new, vibrant perspective on ancient lifeways along the Mexican Gulf lowlands and an important updated source for future research in the region.

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This digital document is an article from Colorlines Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 3236 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Doctors, deities and ancestral spirits: immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean rely on traditional healing. Is the medical world prepared to care for them?
Author: Mariah Blake
Publication: Colorlines Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
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Examines the relationship of Spain's 1960s tourist boom to Franco's right-wing dictatorship. ... Read more

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The relations of culture and politics in Latin America were transformed in the last decades of the 20th century. This study offers insights into this process, with contributions from academics working in and outside the region. Chapters range across fields as diverse as music and anthropology, sociology and cultural memory, politics and (post)modern theorizing, economics, communications and cultural globalization, poetry, narrative and drama, and all are contextualized in the extended introduction and afterword. ... Read more

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This volume explores the role played by culture in the transition to democracy in Latin America's Southern Cone(Argentina, Uruguay, Chile) and Spain, with a focus on opposing stances of acceptance and defiance by artists and intellectuals in post-authoritarian regimes. ... Read more

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Long associated with the pejorative clichés of the drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. In this pioneering study of the Miami music industry and Miami’s growing Colombian community, María Elena Cepeda boldly asserts that popular music provides an alternative common space for imagining and enacting Colombian identity. Using an interdisciplinary analysis of popular media, music, and music video, Cepeda teases out issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and transnational identity in the Latino/a music industry and among its most renowned rock en español, pop, and vallenato stars.

Musical ImagiNation provides an overview of the ongoing Colombian political and economic crisis and the dynamics of Colombian immigration to metropolitan Miami. More notably, placed in this context, the book discusses the creative work and media personas of talented Colombian artists Shakira, Andrea Echeverri of Aterciopelados, and Carlos Vives. In her examination of the transnational figures and music that illuminate the recent shifts in the meanings attached to Colombian identity both in the United States and Latin America, Cepeda argues that music is a powerful arbitrator of memory and transnational identity.

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This digital document is an article from Colorlines Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2005. The length of the article is 2023 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Her body, her choice? More Latinas are getting abortions. One young woman shares her story.
Author: Ziba Kashef
Publication: Colorlines Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2005
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When President Benito Juárez died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1872, the Mexican government declared a seven-day period of mourning. Nearly the entire population of Mexico City filed past Juárez's body as it lay in state in the National Palace. Over 100,000 people watched the magnificent procession of his hearse, and countless mourners vied for position to listen to his eulogies. Juárez's was the last state funeral for a sitting president in republican Mexico, and the public response proved the existence of a Mexican national community. It also gave birth to the cultural politics and mythical discourse of the Porfirian regime that would overthrow Juárez's successor in 1876.

In 1902 Mexican journalist, congressman, and intellectual Justo Sierra asserted that Mexico gained both national pride and its international personality during the long reign of Porfirio Díaz. Matthew Esposito argues that much of this identity stemmed from Díaz's reliance on memorialism. Over the course of thirty-five years, the Porfirian state constructed dozens of national monuments, performed countless commemorations, and held 110 state funerals. While most historians have argued that Díaz's reign owed its longevity to extralegal activities and personal appeals to loyalty, Esposito examines Díaz's successful manipulation of cults of the dead, hero cults, and national memory to shape the perception of his leadership. ... Read more

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Education, in all its varied forms, has played a leading role in fostering change in Latin American society. In Molding the Hearts and Minds, fifteen essays by leading scholars examine how education has influenced the history of Latin America, from the schools of the nineteenth century to today's bureaucracy.

The essays are divided into sections covering the past two centuries: 'The Colonial Legacy and the Nineteenth Century,' 'Universities in Ferment,' 'Revolution,' and 'The Problems of Institutionalization.' This volume will be welcomed by historians, Latin Americanists, and comparative education scholars. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Colorlines Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 1536 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Shades of gray: a conservative Cuban rabbi takes on race issues that could have powerful implications for Jews and Latinos.(Rigoberto Emmanuel Vinas)
Author: Jennifer Medina
Publication: Colorlines Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
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In this uniquely wide-ranging book, David Craven investigates the extraordinary impact of three Latin American revolutions on the visual arts and on cultural policy. The three great upheavals-in Mexico (1910-1940), in Cuba (1959-1989), and in Nicaragua (1979-1990)-were defining moments in twentieth-century life in the Americas. Craven discusses the structural logic of each movement's artistic project-by whom, how, and for whom artworks were produced-and assesses their legacies. In each case, he demonstrates how the consequences of the revolution reverberated in the arts and cultures far beyond national borders.

The book examines not only specific artworks originating from each revolution's attempt to deal with the challenge of "socializing the arts," but also the engagement of the working classes in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua with a tradition of the fine arts made newly accessible through social transformation. Craven considers how each revolution dealt with the pressing problem of creating a "dialogical art" -- one that reconfigures the existing artistic resource rather than one that just reproduces a populist art to keep things as they were. In addition, the author charts the impact on the revolutionary processes of theories of art and education, articulated by such thinkers as John Dewey and Paulo Freire. The book provides a fascinating new view of the Latin American revolutionaries -- from artists to political leaders -- who defined art as a fundamental force for the transformation of society. ... Read more

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understanding latin american art
David Craven's Art & Revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990 is essential to understanding the art of Central America and Cuba.It is well illustrated and the format allows easy referencing.I use it as an authoritative source for articles in my newsletter, CAJA, Central American Journal of Art. [...] ... Read more

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Since the Bolivian revolution in 1952, migrants have come to the city of Cochabamba, seeking opportunity and relief from rural poverty. They have settled in barrios on the city’s outskirts only to find that the rights of citizens—basic rights of property and security, especially protection from crime—are not available to them. In this ethnography, Daniel M. Goldstein considers the significance of and similarities between two kinds of spectacles—street festivals and the vigilante lynching of criminals—as they are performed in the Cochabamba barrio of Villa Pagador. By examining folkloric festivals and vigilante violence within the same analytical framework, Goldstein shows how marginalized urban migrants, shut out of the city and neglected by the state, use performance to assert their national belonging and to express their grievances against the inadequacies of the state’s official legal order.

During the period of Goldstein’s fieldwork in Villa Pagador in the mid-1990s, residents attempted to lynch several thieves and attacked the police who tried to intervene. Since that time, there have been hundreds of lynchings in the poor barrios surrounding Cochabamba. Goldstein presents the lynchings of thieves as a form of horrific performance, with elements of critique and political action that echo those of local festivals. He explores the consequences and implications of extralegal violence for human rights and the rule of law in the contemporary Andes. In rich detail, he provides an in-depth look at the development of Villa Pagador and of the larger metropolitan area of Cochabamba, illuminating a contemporary Andean city from both microethnographic and macrohistorical perspectives. Focusing on indigenous peoples’ experiences of urban life and their attempts to manage their sociopolitical status within the broader context of neoliberal capitalism and political decentralization, The Spectacular City highlights the deep connections between performance, law, violence, and the state. ... Read more

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Fascinating.
A terrific window into 21st Century Bolivian culture, and by extension, into the perils facing much of Latin America as its indigenous peoples come into conflict with an ever-encroaching modernity.The author clearly knows his subject matter well and writes without condescension or judgment.An excellent read. ... Read more

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PLEASE avoid this title
I am very interested in the topic of human rights abuses and historical memory but this book is so poorly written. His meandering, obnoxious tone and references to himself make Stern one of the worst historians I have read. Who in the world edited this book? Have they never read historical writing before??

Competing narratives give full picture of the issue
Steve Stern is probably the best regarded latin american historian in the western hemisphere.This book is not only about the events and the opinions leading up to the Sept 11, 1977 coup in Chile, but the problem of voice and narrative in historical texts.Stern effectively wrestles with the problem, providing not only a clear sense of personal stories of those living in chile prior to the coup, but providing a theoretical backbone to navigate the intense partisan narratives that swirl around the years of terror.

Stern is highly skeptical of the "official" voice of history, whether or not it supports recent reforms in Chile.Indeed, his text is part of the larger process of restorative justice that brings all the competing narratives to the fore.There are still people who love and admire Pinochet and, while many would be tempted to scorn and omit their stories, Stern's text does not dismiss their important voices. ... Read more

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St. Louis's story stands for the story of all thosecities whose ambitions and civic self-image, forged from the growth ofthe mercantile and industrial eras, have been dramatically alteredover time. More dramatically, perhaps, than most—but in a mannershared by all—St. Louis's changing economic base, shiftingpopulation, and altered landscape have forced scholars, policymakers,and residents alike to acknowledge the transiency of what once seemedinexorable metropolitan trends: concentration, growth, accumulatedwealth, and generally improved well-being.

In this book, Eric Sandweiss scrutinizes the everydaylandscape—streets, houses, neighborhoods, and publicbuildings—as it evolved in a classic American city. Bringing tolife the spaces that most of us pass without noticing, he reveals howthe processes of dividing, trading, improving, and dwelling upon landare acts that reflect and shape social relations. From its origins asa French colonial settlement in the eighteenth century to the presentday, St. Louis offers a story not just about how our past is diagramedin brick and asphalt, but also about the American city's continuingviability as a place where the balance of individual rights andcollective responsibilities can be debated, demonstrated, and adjustedfor generations to come. ... Read more

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A rare combination of meticulous research and a larger vision
Eric Sandweiss has done a superb job of analyzing the physical evolution of St. Louis as seen from the perspective of one of its most stable neighborhood areas, South St. Louis.His analytical framework reflects the perspective of the great Sir Winston Churchill, who said "We shape our buildings.Thereafter, they shape us."The kind of analysis the author undertakes is similar to a book he cites in his notes, Puritan Village.But while this latter work focused on the relatively simple and stable environment of Sudbury, MA, over a relatively short period of time, Sandweiss covers virtually the entire history of St. Louis.For most of his book, he focuses on a detailed analysis of several representative blocks of South St. Louis, including demographics, house styles, and block-by-block development patterns, to demonstrate how neighborhood character and composition change over time.This is truly original work.But his last two chapters, comprising a little over 50 pages, present a powerful summation of the growth and decline of the city in the 20th century.Many of his observations reflect the evolution of most American cities over time, making a transition from a kinship-based to an association-based pattern of development, evolving from a ward-healer pattern of government to one emphasizing professional management principles, etc.His indictment of city planning as practiced in St. Louis is just devastating, particularly the work of Harland Bartholomew.My only quibble is that he does not offer a plausible alternative to the pattern of centralization and professionalization of city government that occurred.Would St. Louis have avoided its precipitous decline if it had retained a dispersed, neighborhood-based type of government?Or, could its leaders, beginning with the Progressive Era, have guided the city in a more positive direction?Nevertheless, Eric Sandweiss has contributed a powerful analysis of how St. Louis grew, developed, and declined over time.

The most irritating style of "educational writing"
While I'm sure this author is very knowledgeable in the area of Urban renewal, history, etc- he wrote a book that shares his knowledge with no one.His style of writing is that which uses unnecessarily big words in unnecessarily complicated ways, forcing the reader to reread each paragraph 4 times and still not understand what the heck the point is. This is the type of book which might be on a suggested book list for a college course, but everyone hates it because even if you suffer through it and manage to 'read' the whole thing, you will walk away with a very small understanding of the material inside. If the author would just speak his mind and explain his thoughts, it would be a great book. However, he jumbles up his sentences and paragraphs so horridly, trying to make himself appear intelligent, that everyone finds this book frustrating and a waste of time. ... Read more

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Oscar Chamosa brings forth the compelling story of an important but often overlooked component of the formation of popular nationalism in Latin America: the development of the Argentine folklore movement in the first part of the twentieth century. This movement involved academicians studying the culture of small farmers and herders of mixed indigenous and Spanish descent in the distant valleys of the Argentine northwest, as well as artists and musicians who took on the role of reinterpreting these local cultures for urban audiences of mostly European descent.

Oscar Chamosa combines intellectual history with ethnographic and sociocultural analysis to reconstruct the process by which mestizo culture--in Argentina called criollo culture--came to occupy the center of national folklore in a country that portrayed itself as the only white nation in South America. The author finds that the conservative plantation owners--the "sugar elites"--who exploited the criollo peasants sponsored the folklore movement that romanticized them as the archetypes of nationhood. Ironically, many of the composers and folk singers who participated in the landowner-sponsored movement adhered to revolutionary and reformist ideologies and denounced the exploitation to which those criollo peasants were subjected. Chamosa argues that, rather than debilitating the movement, these opposing and contradictory ideologies permitted its triumph and explain, in part, the enduring romanticizing of rural life and criollo culture, essential components of Argentine nationalism.

The book not only reveals the political motivations of culture in Argentina and Latin America but also has implications for understanding the articulation of local culture with national politics and entertainment markets that characterizes contemporary cultural processes worldwide today. ... Read more