Over the last twenty years, U.S. scholars have witnessed a proliferation of programmatic calls to abandon research that takes the nation-state as an unquestioned frame of analysis in favor of what have variously been called transnational, international, inter-American, transatlantic, black … Continue reading “Introduction: THE TRAFFIC IN HISTORY”
Issue: Issue 092 Tepoztlán Papers
The Traffic in History: Papers from the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas
The Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas
pamela voekelFor the past three summers, the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas has hosted roughly seventy-five faculty and graduate students from across the region for an intensive, weeklong discussion of cutting-edge theoretical and historical work. The seminar’s … Continue reading “The Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas”
From the Rivers of Guinea to the Valleys of Peru: BECOMING A BRAN DIASPORA WITHIN SPANISH SLAVERY
rachel sarah otooleOn a Sunday of rest in 1662, three enslaved men from today’s Guinea- Bissau disrupted the dancing and drumming on a sugar hacienda along the northern coast of Peru. Witnesses reported that these enslaved men, who were known as brans, … Continue reading “From the Rivers of Guinea to the Valleys of Peru: BECOMING A BRAN DIASPORA WITHIN SPANISH SLAVERY”
Sexuality and Gender in Transnational Spaces: REALIGNMENTS IN RURAL VERACRUZ FAMILIES DUE TO INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
rosio cordova plazaThe study of migration is not new in Mexican anthropology. Indeed, the long tradition of people moving in search of better living conditions began to be recorded in the works of Manuel Gamio in the late 1920s.1 Much more recent, … Continue reading “Sexuality and Gender in Transnational Spaces: REALIGNMENTS IN RURAL VERACRUZ FAMILIES DUE TO INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION”
In Search of Lourdes Casal's "Ana Veldford"
yolanda martinez-san miguelAs with most good mysteries, it all started in the fall of 2003 with a question that did not have an answer — at least for the moment. Both of us were independently teaching a poem canonical in Cuban, Cuban … Continue reading “In Search of Lourdes Casal's "Ana Veldford"”
Hysteria and History: A MEDITATION ON MEXICO
frida gorbachThe words hysteria and history are differentiated in Spanish by only one letter (histeria/historia), although they refer to completely different things. In the present text, at least, hysteria refers to a concept addressed by Mexican doctors toward the end of … Continue reading “Hysteria and History: A MEDITATION ON MEXICO”
The Soul of Neoliberalism
bethany e. moretonIn 1992, the champion economics student in Arkansas bore the demographically unlikely surname of Díaz. Competing in his second language, this Nicaraguan citizen placed first in a statewide contest for collegians and even went on to a fourth-place showing at … Continue reading “The Soul of Neoliberalism”
Representing Global Labor
michael denningThese are the common U.S. lyrics to “The Internationale,” which was written in 1871 by the Communard poet Eugène Pottier after the fall of the Paris Commune.1 Pottier, born in 1816, was one of the revolutionary Parisian artisans of 1848, … Continue reading “Representing Global Labor”