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frican Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

ging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

nthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

aregiving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

aribbean Studies. . . . . . . . . . . 6

ivil Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

uban Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 8

eath and D ying . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

nvironmental Studies. . . . . . . 10

uropean History . . . . . . . . . . . 1

lm Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

ealth Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2ispanic Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

istory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

olocaust Studies . . . . . . . . . . . 1

uman Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

ewish Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

atin American Studies. . . 3, 8, 9, 10

iterature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

opular Culture . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 6

ublic Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

egional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

eligion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

ocial Movements. . . . . . . . . . 10

ransatlantic Studies . . . . . . . . . 9

rban Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

S History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

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ublicity still, Carmen Miranda inTe Streets of Paris, 1939.

ourtesy of www.doctormacro.com.

From Day to Dayis unlike any other record of personal

war experience which has yet appeared. There have

been plenty of other accounts of imprisonment

and concentration camps but none by a man like

Mr. Nansen. Writing with no thought of publication,

merely to keep a record for his wife and to express his

own boiling emotions, Mr. Nansen somehow created a

remarkable book. Using stolen paper and stolen time,

always in fear of being caught, he described each days

adventures with stark simplicity and intimate authority

His book, although immensely long, is a continuously

engrossing narrative. It is filled with vivid, concrete

details, sharp character sketches, unspeakable horrors.Orville Prescott, New York Times

Most citizens, one hears, are fed up with books about

the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps. But

this book is different from all the others this reviewer

has read. True, it does not slur over the unspeakable

barbarities. But it rises above them and reminds us in

never-to-be-forgotten pages how noble and generous

the human spirit can be in the face of terrible adversity.

William L. Shirer, New York He rald-Tribune

The first two-thirds of Day after Daycan only be

compared with Dostoevskys House of the Dead; butcompared with the last third of Hr. Nansens book

The House of the Deadreads like Jane Austen. . . . It

is a masterpiece. . . . The number of men who have

successfully exploited the unique character of the diary

as an art-form can still be counted on the fingers of

one hand.

Times Literary Supplement

From reviews of the 1949 edition:

This extraordinary diary by a non-Jewish victim of the Nazi regime and its

collaborators is a rich historical document. Nansens stunning illustrations

provide a pictorial narrative into the concentration camp world he endured.

Superbly translated by Katherine John, his text renders his experience

in clear, muscular prose. We see through his eyes and imagine what he

describes. We follow him, day by day, as his diary traverses three and a

half yearsan eternity at that timeand moves with him from the

Norwegian camp system, the Norwegian regime, and occupied Norway to

his perspective on the German camp of Sachsenhausen, the Nazi regime in

Germany, and the final disintegration of the Third Reich.

Timothy Boyces introduction frames the diary beautifully, setting the

diary years into the larger picture of Nansens life with just the right bal-

ance between the private and the public. And his extensive editorial notes

provide guideposts along the way.

Debrah Dwork, Rose Professor of Holocaust History, Director, Strassler Center for

Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and author of Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews,

Above right: Sketch by Odd Nansen. One of the death gangs on the way to theplace of execution, conducted by the AA General.

Below: Sketch by Odd Nansen. Divine service behind the barbed wire at Veidal.

This is one of the most searing contemporaneous accounts of the Holocaust,

but also one of the best written of the great documents of World War II. It

is a profound indictment of evil, a daily diary of torment and torture, yet

also somehow a deeply moving love letter. It should find a place on the

bookshelf of every home, be taught in every school, made into a movie,

and feted for what it says about mans capacity for humanity in the face

of satanic loathsomeness. Mr. Nansens decency and courage in the most

vicious of circumstances shines through on every page; he personifies the

civilization for which the Allies fought.

Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War: A New History of the Second

World War; Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the

West, ; and Napoleon: A Life

A long-forgotten masterpiece. In his secret diary, written inside the Nazi

camps, the Norwegian prisoner Odd Nansen paints a deeply affecting

picture of everyday terror, sketching the inmates life and death with

exceptional clarity and compassion. Rarely has the inhumanity of the

camps been captured with such humanity. An invaluable document for

anyone interested in the Nazi camps.

Nikolaus Wachsmann, author of KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

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n Norwegian Odd Nansen was

arrested by the Nazis, and he spent the

remainder o World War II in concentra-

tion campsGrini in Oslo, Veidal above

the Arctic Circle, and Sachsenhausenin Germany. For three and a hal years,

Nansen kept a secret diary on tissue-paper-

thin pages later smuggled out by various

means, including inside the prisoners

hollowed-out breadboards.

Unlike writers o retrospective Holo-

caust memoirs, Nansen recorded the mun-

dane and horrific details o camp lie as

they happened, rom day to day. With an

unsparing eye, Nansen described the casual

brutality and random terror that was the

ate o a camp prisoner. His entries reveal

his constantly rustrated hopes or an early

end to the war, his longing or his wie

and children, his horror at the especially

barbaric treatment reserved or Jews, and

his disgust at the anti-Semitism o some o

his ellow Norwegians. Nansen ofen con-

ronted his German jailors with unusual

outspokenness and sometimes with a

sense o humor and absurdity that was not

appreciated by his captors.

Afer the Putnams edition receivedrave reviews in , the book ell into

obscurity. In , in response to a poll

about the most undeservedly neglected

book o the preceding quarter-century,

Carl Sandburg singled out From Day to

Day, calling it an epic narrative, which

A dramatic, acutely observed account of three and a half years

of concentration camp life and death as they unfolded

From Day to DayOne Mans Diary of Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps

ODD NANSEN

Edited & annotated by TIMOTHY J. B OYCE Preface by THOMAS BUERGENTHAL

HO L O CA U S T S T U DIES / HU M A N R IG HT S / EU R O PEA N HIS T O R Y

took its place among the great affirma-

tions o the power o the human spirit

to rise above terror, torture, and death.

Indeed, Nansen witnessed all the horrors o

the camps, yet still saw hope or the uture.He sought reconciliation with the German

people, even donating the proceeds o the

German edition o his book to German

reugee relie work. Nansen was ollowing

in the ootsteps o his ather, Fridtjo, an

Arctic explorer and humanitarian who was

awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in or

his work on behal o World War I reu-

gees. (Fridtjo also created the Nansen

passport or stateless persons.)

Tis new edition, the first in over sixty-

five years, contains extensive annotations

and new diary selections never beore

translated into English. Forty sketches

o camp lie and death by Nansen, an

architect and talented drafsman, provide a

sense o immediacy and acute observation

matched by the diary entries. Te preace is

written by Tomas Buergenthal, who was

ommy, the ten-year-old survivor o the

Auschwitz Death March, whom Nansen

met at Sachsenhausen and saved using

his extra ood rations. Buergenthal, wholater served as a judge on the International

Court o Justice at Te Hague, is a recipient

o the Elie Wiesel Award rom the US

Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Odd Nansen, a Norwegian architect, organized

relief efforts for Jews and other refugees

beginning in and was imprisoned by the

Nazis in a series of concentration camps. After the

war, he remained active in humanitarian workuntil his death in .

Timothy J. Boycepracticed law for thirty-five

years, most recently as the managing partner

of the Charlotte office of Dechert LLP, an

international law firm.

Self-portrait of Odd Nansen in prison.


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demanded an end to ederal subsidization

o discrimination in the orm o Medicare

payments to hospitals that embraced the

separate but equal creed that shaped

American lie during the Jim Crow era.

Faced with this pressure, the Kennedy andJohnson Administrations tried to play a

cautious chess game, but that game led

to perhaps the biggest gamble in the his-

tory o domestic policy. Leaders secretly

recruited volunteer ederal employees to

serve as inspectors, and an invisible army

o hospital workers and civil rights activists

to work as agents, making it impossible or

hospitals to get Medicare dollars with mere

paper compliance. Tese triumphs did

not come without casualties, yet the story

offers lessons and hope or realizing this

transormational dream.

On the th anniversary of the implementation of Medicare,

a behind-the-scenes account of the role of civil rights activists

HEA L T H PO L ICY / CIVIL R IG HT S / U S HIS T O R Y

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n less than our months, beginning

with a staff o five, an obscure office

buried deep within the ederal bureau-

cracy transormed the nations hospitals

rom our most racially and economically

segregated institutions into our most inte-grated. Tese powerul private institutions,

which had or a hal century selectively

served people on the basis o race and

wealth, began equally caring or all on the

basis o need.

Te book draws the reader into the

struggles o the unsung heroes o the

transormation, black medical leaders

whose stubborn courage helped shape

the larger civil rights movement. Tey

The Power to HealCivil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform

Americas Health Care System

DAVID BARTON SMITH

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David Barton Smith, Professor Emeritus inHealth Administration at Temple University,

is the author of Reinventing Care: Assisted

Living in New York City(also published by

Vanderbilt University Press) and Health Care

Divided: Race and Healing a Nation. He is

assisting in the production of a companion

documentary supported by the National

Endowment for the Humanities.

David Barton Smith is a superb storyteller, and

in The Power to Healhe has quite a story to tell.

It is the story of the racism at the foundations

of the American health care system and of

the men and women who dedicatedand

sometimes gavetheir lives to fight it. In

particular, Smith tells how the implementation

of Medicare became the most successful

desegregation program in American history.

While racial disparities persist in American

health care, that they are now understood

as a problem rather than the natural order of

things is attributable to the heroic efforts he

describes.

Timothy Jost, Emeritus Professor, Washington and Lee

University School of Law

This book is the recipient of the Norman L. and Roselea J.

Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the

best book in the area of medicine.

The Power to Healbrings to life the neglected

history of one of the greatest victories of

the civil rights strugglesthe successful

confrontation with the institutional racism

and racial segregation long entrenched in

Americas hospitals, north as well as south,

that had relegated African American patients

to basement wards and inferior treatment.

David Barton Smiths brilliant account reads

like a political thriller, detailing the ways in

which a small group of determined activistsfor social justice, working quietly in the halls of

government, used the leverage of new social

programsMedicare and Medicaidto

accomplish a great social change. This story

speaks to the future as well as the past.

H. Jack Geiger, MD, Logan Professor Emeritus of

Community Medicine, City University of New York

Medical School


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Te brilliant life of the Brazilian Bombshell

L AT I N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S / P O P U L A R C U L T U R E / F I L M S T U D I E S

Kathryn Bishop-Sanchezis a professor

of Portuguese and gender and womens

studies at the University of Wisconsin

Madison. She is coeditor of Performing

Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the

Performing Arts.

armen Miranda got knocked down

and kept going. Filming an appear-

ance on Te Jimmy Durante Show

on August , , the ambassadress of

samba suddenly took a knee during a

dance number, clearly in distress. Durante

covered without missing a beat, and

Miranda was back on her feet in a matter

of moments to continue with what she did

best: performing. By the next morning, she

was dead from heart failure at age .

Tis final performance in many ways

exemplified the power of Carmen Miranda.

Te actress, singer, and dancer pursued

a relentless mission to demonstrate the

provocative theatrical force of her cultural

roots in Brazil. Armed with bare-midriff

dresses, platform shoes, and her iconic

fruit-basket headdresses, Miranda stole the

show in films like Tat Night in Rioand

Creating Carmen MirandaRace, Camp, and Transnational Stardom

KATHRYN BISHOPSANCHEZ

Te Gangs All Here. For American film

audiences, her life was an example of the

exoticism of a mysterious, sensual South

America. For Brazilian and Latin Ameri-

can audiences, she was an icon. For the

gay community, she became a work of art

personified and a symbol of courage and

charisma.

In Creating Carmen Miranda, Kathryn

Bishop-Sanchez takes the reader through

the myriad methods Miranda consciously

used to shape her performance of race,

gender, and camp culture, all to further

her journey down the road to becoming a

legend.

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Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez has written a

veritable tour de forcethat will stand as the

definitive study of Carmen Miranda for many

years to come.

Christopher Dunn, author of Brutality Garden:

Tropiclia and the Emergence of a Brazilian

Counterculture


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How to care for an aging parent and how to handle

this rite of passage in our own lives

aring for Redis Mindy Frieds moving

and colorul account o caring or her

ninety-seven-year-old ather, Manny

an actor, writer, and labor organizerin

the final year o his lie. Tis memoir

chronicles the actions o two sisters as theydiscover concentric circles o support or

their ather and attempt to provide him

with an experience o engaged aging in

an assisted living acility.

Te story is also that o a daughter o

a powerul and outspoken man who took

risks throughout his lie and whose politi-

cal belies had an enduring impact on his

Caring for RedA Daughters Memoir

M I N D Y F R I E D


CA R EG IVIN G / A G IN G / DEA T H A N D DYIN G

Mindy Fried, a sociologist, isCo-Principal of Arbor Consulting

Partners. She is the author of

Taking Time: Parental Leave Policy

and Corporate Culture.

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Raw and real. Anyone who has experienced

caregiving can appreciate Mindy Frieds story.

I was reminded of Roz Chasts Cant We Talk

about Something More Pleasant?Both books

help caregivers to feel less alone and to put

the life course in perspective, and both Fried

and Chast offer helpful advice along the way.Meika Loe, author of Aging Our Way: Lessons for

Living from and Beyondand The Rise of Viagra:

How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America

amily. (Afer Manny was called beore the

House Un-American Activities Commit-

tee, he was blackballed and his amily was

shunned.)

As an actor, Manny was affiliated with

Elia Kazans Group Teatre and the FederalTeatre Project. He did Shakespeare, Chek-

hov, and Ibsen, and played everything rom

the tormented ather in Arthur MillersAll

My Sonsto an inant in a baby carriage in

Tornton Wilders Infancy, rom the Rabbi

in Fiddler on the Rooftopoignantly or

this bookthe role o Morrie in uesdays

with Morrie.

As she devotes hersel to caring or her

dying ather, Mindy grapples anew with the

complexity o their relationship. She ques-

tions whether she can be there or him and

how to assert her own voice as her athers

caregiver in his last days.

Mindy Fried has written a moving and

insightful memoir about being a long-

distance caregiver (with her sister) for her

ninety-seven-year-old father in the last year

of his life in an assisted living facility in Buffalo,

New York. She has also captured the meaning

of his life as a union activist, playwright, actor,

late-life student, and teacher. Frieds book

offers compelling testimony on behalf of her

adored but difficult father. As his caregiver she

honored him as a father, and with her memoir,

as a seeker for justice.

Carol Levine, Director, Families and Health CareProject, United Hospital Fund, and editor of Living in

the Land of Limbo: Fiction and Poetry about Family

Caregiving


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he shape we give to our city in turn

shapes us. Te orm that Americans

began to give to their cities and suburbs

in the years ollowing World War II has

molded an increasingly underactive, over-

weight population subject to a variety opreventable diseases, as well as an environ-

ment with degraded air and water quality.

Shaping the Healthy Communityexplores

the relationships between the built envi-

ronment and public health and presents an

action plan or a healthier city.

Te book analyzes Nashville using

the transect, an urban planning model

central to the New Urbanist and smart

growth movements. By considering the

seven transect zonesnatural, rural,

suburban, urban, downtown, centers, and

districtsthe book provides a diagnosis o

the health-promoting and health-deeating

aspects o each.

Strategies tailored to each zone ocus

on six built environment actors that im-

pact health: neighborhood design and

Diagnosing the built environment for healthy living

Shaping the Healthy CommunityThe Nashville Plan

GARY GASTON and CHRISTINE KREYLING

U R BA N PL A N N IN G / PU BL IC HEA L T H / R EG IO N A L

development, transportation, walkability

and pedestrian saety, ood resources,

housing, and open space and parks. Indi-

vidual chapters include case studies o spe-

cific neighborhoods, contributions by ex-

perts, inographics, site photographs, anddetailed beore-and-afer visualizations.

Shaping the Healthy Community pre-

sents real world acts, policy recommenda-

tions, and design strategies to enable health

and planning proessionals, developers and

designers, educators and community orga-

nizations to build places in which healthy

practices can be part o daily lie.

Like Te Plan of Nashville: Avenues to

a Great City, this book is a collaboration

o the Nashville Civic Design Center,

Vanderbilt University Creative Services,

and Vanderbilt University Press.

TA NASHVILLE CIVIC DESIGN CENTER PUBLICATION

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Gary Gaston, Director of the Nashville Civic

Design Center, is a lecturer with the University of

Tennessee College of Architecture and Design.

He was co-author of Moving Tennessee Forward:

Models for Connecting Communitiesand executive

producer of the NEA-funded documentary

film Design Your Neighborhood.

Christine Kreylingis the author of The Plan of

Nashvilleand co-author of Classical Nashville,both published by Vanderbilt University Press. As

the architecture and urban planning critic for the

Nashville Scene, she received three awards from

the American Planning Association for the best

writing in the nation. Kreyling was one of the

founders of the Nashville Urban Design Forum

and the Nashville Civic Design Center.

Nashville, the city that has shaped our popular

culture and made it global, now stands to

help us rethink our built environment. Though

this books focus is on one unique American

city, its findings provide metropolitan cultures

everywhere with a blueprint for healthy living.

With their thorough research and analysis, the

authors point the way to achieving the human-and Earth-centered places our century is ready

to embrace.

Susan S. Szenasy, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief,

Metropolis Magazine

Nashville is already a national leader in the

health care industry, but I want nothing less

than for us to be a national leader in health.

As a physician and a policymaker, my mantra

has become make the healthy choice the easy

choice.Shaping the Healthy Communityis

about just that.

from the Preface bySenator William H. Frist, MD

Twenty-first-century cities are reinventing

themselves, and the best and brightest want

to live in lively, healthy places. Cities musttell their stories to the world, as Nashville has

done, beautifully.

Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH, was for nine years

Director of the CDCs National Center for Environmental

Health


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Discovering popular culture around the world, and bringing it back to Cuba

wenty-first-century Cuba is a cultural

stew. ommy Hilfiger and socialism.

Nike products and poverty in Arica.

Te New York Yankees and the meaning

o blackness. Te quest or American

consumer goods and the struggle in Aricaor political and cultural independence

inorm the daily lie o Cubans at every

cultural level, as anthropologist Paul Ryer

argues in Beyond Cuban Waters. Focusing

on the everyday world o ordinary Cubans,

this book examines Cuban understand-

ings o the world and o Cubas place in it,

especially as i lluminated by two contrast-

ing notions: La Yuma, a distinctly Cuban

concept o the American experience, and

Beyond Cuban Watersfrica, La Yuma, and the Islands Global Imagination

P A U L R Y E R

rica, the ideological understanding o

that continents experience. Ryer takes us

into the homes o Cuban amilies, out to

the streets and nightlie o bustling cities,

and on boat journeys that reach beyond

the typical destinations, all to better under-stand the nature o the cultural lie o a

nation.

Tis pursuit o Western status symbols

represents a uniquely Cuban experience,

set apart rom other cultures pursuing the

same things. In the Cuban case, this rep-

resents neither an acceptance nor rejection

o the American cultural influence, but

rather a co-opting or Yumanizing o

these influences.

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Paul Ryeris Assistant Professor of

Anthropology at the University of

California, Riverside.

Zeroing in on discourses of race in Cuba, Ryer

counterposes two imagined geographies:

the geography of management of the Cuban

state, which has insisted on an absence of racial

hierarchies and racism, and the geography of

desire in everyday conversations about racial

and national identity and the beckoning yet

forbidden capitalist world beyond the island. Ryer

is an endlessly fascinating and sure-footed guide

to the interplay of the global and local in Cuba.

David Luis-Brown, author of Waves of Decolonization:

Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba,

Mexico, and the United States



eresa de Santo Domingo, born with

the name Chicaba, was a slave captured

in the territory known to seventeenth-

and eighteenth-century Spanish and Portu-

guese navigators and slave traffickers as La

Mina Baja del Oro, the part o West Aricathat extends through present-day eastern

Ghana, ogo, Benin, and western Nigeria.

Upon the death o her Spanish master,

she was reed to enter a convent. Te

Dominicans o La Penitencia in Salamanca

accepted her afer she had been rejected

by several other monasteries because o

her skin color. Even in her own religious

community, race put her at a disadvantage

in the highly stratified social hierarchy

o monastic houses o the era. Her lie

story is known to us through a documententitled Compendio de la Vida Ejemplar

H I S P A NI C S T U D I E S / R E L I G I O N / L I T E R A T U R E / A F R I C A N S T U D I E S

From slavery to Veneration, the life story of an

eighteenth-century African nun

Black Bride of ChristChicaba, an African Nun in Eighteenth-Century Spain

Edited, translated, and with an introduction by

SUE E. HOUCHINS and BALTASAR FRAMOLINERO

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de la Venerable Madre Sor eresa Juliana

de Santo Domingo, which is the ounda-

tional documentary evidence in the case

or beatification o this nun, and as such it

is the most significant and comprehensive

source o inormation about her.Tis volume, the first English transla-

tion o the Compendio, is a hagiography,

an example o a biographical genre that

recounts the lives and describes the spiri-

tual practices o holy peoplesaints offi-

cially canonized by the Church, inormally

recognized by local devotees, or respected

ecclesiastical leaders. Te effort to have

Chicaba canonized continues today, as

Fra-Molinero and Houchins explore in

their introduction to the volume.

T

Sue E. Houchinsis Associate Professor of

Womens & Gender Studies at Bates College and

editor of Spiritual Narratives.

Baltasar Fra-Molinerois Professor of LatinAmerican Studies at Bates College.

First and last pages of the Oracin fnebre,published soon after Sor Teresa Chicabasfuneral in . Chicabas epitaph is framed onthe last page. (Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid)


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The Merchant of HavanaThe Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive

STEPHEN SILVERSTEIN

A need to vilify in an age of uncertainty and

the rise of anti-Semitism in Cuba

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s Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth

century, an epochal realignment o

the social order occurred. In this period

o change, two seemingly disparate, yet

nevertheless intertwined, ideological orces

appeared: anti-Semitism and abolition-ism. As the antislavery movement became

organized in Cuba, the argument grew

that Jews participated in the Arican slave

trade and in New World slavery, and that

this participation gave Jews extraordinary

influence in the new Cuban economy and

culture. What was remarkable about this

anti-Semitism was the decidedly small

Jewish population on the island in this era.

Tis orm o anti-Semitism, Silversteinreveals, sprang almost exclusively rom

mythological belies.

A

Silverstein puts a new twist to the discussion

about slavery and the rise of capitalism by

looking at the key role debt had in transforming

the upper echelons of Cuban society, and the

reason why the image of Shylock became so

rooted in their imaginary.

Ariana Huberman, author of Gauchos and Foreigners:

Glossing Culture and Identity in the Argentine

Countryside

Stephen Silversteinis Assistant Professor

of Spanish at Baylor University.

[Silverstein] argues convincingly that we

can neither fully understand Afro-Cuban

racial identities nor the mechanism of racial

hierarchies in Cuba unless we also comprehend

the role of the merchant class, foreign-born

bourgeoisie, and the lexicon of Jewish usury innineteenth-century Cuba.

Amelia Weinreb, author of Cuba in the Shadow of

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The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the AmericasNew Nations and a Transatlantic Discourse of Empire

ELISE BARTOSIKVLEZ

hy is the capital o the United States

named in part afer Christopher

Columbus, a Genoese explorer com-

missioned by Spain who never set oot on

what would become the nations mainland?

Why did Spanish American nationalistsin name a new independent republic

Colombia, afer Columbus, the first rep-

resentative o the empire rom which they

had recently broken ree? Tese are only

two o the introductory questions explored

in Te Legacy of Christopher Columbus in

the Americas, a undamental recasting o

Columbus as an eminently powerul tool in

imperial constructs.

Bartosik-Vlez seeks to explain the

meaning o Christopher Columbus

throughout the so-called New World,first in the British American colonies and

the United States, as well as in Spanish

America, during the eighteenth and nine-

teenth centuries. She argues that during

the pre- and post-revolutionary periods,

New World societies commonly imagined

themselves as legitimate and powerul

independent political entities by compar-ing themselves to the classical empires o

Greece and Rome. Columbus, who had

been construed as a figure o empire or

centuries, fit perectly into that ramework.

By adopting him as a national symbol, New

World nationalists appeal to Old World

notions o empire.

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Hispanic American Historical Review

Elise Bartosik-Vlezis Associate Professor

of Spanish at Dickinson College.

[Bartosik-Vlez] shows how the use of apocalyptic

and prophetic language, and specifically Columbuss

self-portrayal as a martyr as he fell from favor,

formed the basis for a rhetorical distancing from

the Spanish Empire upon which later nationalist

renditions would depend.

Kristine Ibsen, author ofMaximilian, Mexico, and the

Invention of Empire

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Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTADevelopment, Politics, and Participation on the US-Mexico Border

S U Z A N N E S I M O N

L A T I N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S / A N T H R O P O L O G Y / E N V I R O N M E N T A L S T U D I E S / S O C I A L M O V E M E N T S

ustaining the Borderlands in the Age

of NAFAprovides the only book-

length study o the impact on residents

o the US-Mexico border o NAFAs

Environmental and Labor Side Accords,

which required each state to enorce laborand environmental regulations. Trough

field research in Matamoros, amauli-

pas, anthropologist Suzanne Simon tests

the premise that the side accords would

encourage Mexican grassroots democrati-

zation. Te effectiveness o the side accords

was tied to transparency and accountability

and practically bound to opportunities or

Mexican border populations to participate

in the side accord petitioning and civil so-

ciety input mechanisms. Simon conducted

sixteen months o fieldwork with both agroup o environmental activists and a

group o those fighting or labor justice

in Mexico. Both o these groups became

enmeshed in the types o cross-border

advocacy networks and coalition building

efforts that are typical o the NAFA era.

Although the key to the side accords

anticipated success lay in their ostensibly

generous encouragement o a participa-

tory politics and sustainable development

opportunities, Sustaining the Borderlands

reveals that the Mexican border popula-tions or which they were largely created

are effectively excluded rom participating

due to the ongoing online, territorial,

class, and cultural barriers that shape the

borderlands. Rather than experiencing

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institutions as transparent and accessible,

residents experienced them as opaque and

indecipherable. Simon concludes that the

side accords have ailed to deliver on their

promise o bringing democracy to Mexicobecause practical mechanisms that would

ensure their effective implementation were

never put in place.

NAFA took effect at a time when

Mexico was undergoing a democratic

transition. Te treaty was supposed to

encourage this transition and improve

environmental and labor conditions on

the US-Mexico border. Tis book demon-

strates that, twenty years later, the promise

o NAFA have not come to pass.For applied and practicing anthropologists and

for teachers and students interested in socialjustice initiatives, this is recommended reading

that imparts valuable lessons.

American Ethnologist

Suzanne Simonis Assistant Professor of

Anthropology at the University of North

Florida.

Simons study unveils the perverse nature of

[a] discourse of participation, sustainability,

and stewardship. The burden, ultimately, falls

not to the state but, rather, to the poor and

marginal, who must be unrelentingly resilient.

Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA

attests to their struggles in a borderland worldthat is rapidly turning into an environmental

wasteland.

American Anthropologist



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