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Mexico's Superior Health Council and the American Public Health Association: The Transnational Archive of Porfirian Public Health, 1887-1910

Ross, P. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:35 PDT

In the late nineteenth century, Mexico's Superior Health Council devised a consistent and assertive international strategy around alignment with international scientific standards, the control of disease certification on Mexican soil by Mexican experts, transparent disease reporting, internationally demonstrated competence in campaigns against tropical disease, and participation in multilateral health agreements. The council came to command a central role in the regime of Porfirio Díaz (1877–1911), mainly because this international strategy enabled a successful defense of Mexican sovereignty. In the arena of public health, the council, led by Eduardo Licéaga, came close to realizing the Científicos' dream of Mexican development "without U.S. investment." This was largely because the council obtained independent access to European ideas and technologies prior to its engagement with the United States, which began in 1890 when the first Mexican delegation attended the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA). Through a persistent and creative diplomatic campaign, taking advantage of relationships cultivated through the APHA, Porfirio Díaz's sanitary advisors persuaded many of their American counterparts that Mexican experts could be trusted partners in defending the health of the western hemisphere. The article describes the Atlantic world of Mexican medicine in the nineteenth century, the significance of public health within a context shaped by rising U.S. imperialism, the key role played by Licéaga, and Mexico's participation in the APHA.

Other Americas: Transnationalism, Scholarship, and the Culture of Poverty in Mexico and the United States

Rosemblatt, K. A. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

The anthropologist Oscar Lewis first used the term "culture of poverty" in a 1959 article on Mexico. Within months, the idea that the poor had a distinct culture became part of a passionate, decade-long, worldwide debate about poverty. Scholars, policy makers, and broader publics discussed what caused poverty and how to remedy it. How entrenched were the class and racial differences that led to poverty? How did those differences affect a country's standing in the community of nations? This article tracks the concept of a culture of poverty as a way of probing the reciprocal, if unequal, connections between Mexico and the United States and their relation to national narratives and policy debates. It tracks how Lewis's formulation of a culture of poverty drew on his training as an anthropologist in the United States, his extensive dialogue with Mexican intellectuals, and his fieldwork in Mexico. It also shows how Lewis and others reformulated the notion in response to intense public controversies in Mexico and Puerto Rico; the vehement U.S. discussions surrounding the War on Poverty and Daniel Patrick Moynihan's report on the Negro family, and larger events such as the Cuban Revolution, the U.S. civil rights movement, decolonization, the Vietnam War, and second-wave feminism.

History and the Contours of Meaning: The Abjection of Luisa Nevarez, First Woman Condemned to the Gallows in Puerto Rico, 1905

del Carmen Baerga-Santini, M. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

The article analyzes the case of Luisa Nevárez, the first woman condemned to the gallows in Puerto Rico at the beginning of the twentieth century. Convicted for the killing of her almost year-old daughter, she never admitted the crime nor showed any remorse. Yet, Luisa did not make an easy transition into the sphere of the criminal. The nascent identity that was being forged in early twentieth-century Puerto Rico configured the delinquent as a masculine subject who was acknowledged as possessing intellectual malice and the capacity for social action. Luisa's condition as a woman, mother, and mulatta, her ignorance, and other factors deprived her of any possibility of entering the space of the criminal subject. Instead, the figure of Luisa oscillated between monster and madwoman in the discourses of the time. Around the mid-twentieth century her discursive figure emerges again, this time in the authorized voices of those concerned with criminal activities on the island. In this context, we find her embodying the prototype of the criminal woman: degenerate, ugly, black, and sexually insatiable. It is Luisa's abject condition that places her on the threshold of history and on the borders of the intelligible. However, the impossibility of explaining her actions in a rational way constitutes a formidable challenge for the historian. In this respect, the article is also a reflection on the limits and possibilities of the representative faculties of the historical narrative.

Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2

Gasco, J. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

El criollo como voluntad y representacion

Galvez-Pena, C. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Fernandez de Oviedo's Chronicle of America: A New History for a New World

Seed, P. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Treatise on Slavery: Selections from "De instauranda Aethiopum salute."

Morgan, R. J. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies

Resendez, A. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century

Turits, R. L. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Another Face of Empire: Bartolome de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism

Villa-Flores, J. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World

Schorsch, J. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Misiones en Chile austral: Los Jesuitas en Chiloe, 1608-1768

Gascon, M. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Una caida anunciada: El obispo Torre y los jesuitas del Rio de la Plata (1757-1773)

de Zappia, S. L. D. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Ciudad y poder: La construccion material y simbolica del Montevideo colonial (1723-1810)

Caviedes, C. N. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico

Fisher, A. B. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico

Vinson, B. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

La musica y el Atlantico: Relaciones musicales entre Espana y Latinoamerica

Ramos-Kittrell, J. A. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821

Deans-Smith, S. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas

Rothman, A. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

La fiesta de la independencia en Costa Rica, 1821-1921

Goebel, M. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Cayeyanos: Familias y solidaridades en la historia de Cayey

Schmidt-Nowara, C. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Proletarios de casaca: Trabalhadores do comercio carioca (1850-1911)

Chazkel, A. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Dar a luz en Chile, siglo XIX: De la "ciencia de hembra" a la ciencia obstetrica

Rosemblatt, K. A. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Intersecting Tango: Cultural Geographies of Buenos Aires, 1900-1930

Robert, K. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Sounds of the Modern Nation: Music, Culture and Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico

Wood, A. G. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Una vida agonica: Victor Raul Haya de la Torre: Testimonio de parte

Garcia-Bryce, I. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Bolivia: Revolution and the Power of History in the Present: Essays

Thurner, M. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict, and the Chavez Phenomenon

McBeth, B. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata: Myth, Memory, and Mexico's Twentieth Century

Lewis, S. E. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Hope and Solidarity: Jon Sobrino's Challenge to Christian Theology

Sullivan-Gonzalez, D. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil

Lazar, S. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society

Sedrez, L. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Yucatan in an Era of Globalization

Hostettler, U. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

The Comanche Empire

Cutter, C. R. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Cultures

Bronfman, A. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Los retos de la diferencia: Los actores de la multiculturalidad entre Mexico y Colombia

Ramos-Escandon, C. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

El Fondo Monetario y el Banco Mundial en la Argentina: Liberalismo, populismo y finanzas internacionales

Roman, J. A. S. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America

Armus, D. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Jose Limon and La Malinche: The Dancer and the Dance

Leyva, Y. C. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class

Fraser, C. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico

Vanderwood, P. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Packaged Vacations: Tourism Development in the Spanish Caribbean

Little, W. E. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

The Banana: Empires, Trade Wars, and Globalization

Moberg, M. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT