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North Americanization of Latin America?

Culture, Gender, and Nation in the Americas

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Stefan Rinke (Hg.), North Americanization of Latin America? (2022), WBG, Darmstadt, ISBN: 9783534275977

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This volume assembles an interdisciplinary set of important contributions to crucial aspects of North Americanization in Latin America. Addressing categories such as culture, gender, and nation the articles provide new approaches to the study of inter- and trans-American relations in the twentieth century.

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In the course of the 20th century, Latin Americans had to face an increasing United States influence in the Americas. They have asked themselves what this development might lead to. From 1898 to the present the concept of North Americanization has been hotly debated in the region. The term has many different meanings in the Latin American societies, meanings that have changed over time and that reflect the differences in gender, social class, and ethnic background. After September 11, 2001 these discussions have gained new relevance due to the rapidly changing international agenda. This volume assembles an interdisciplinary set of important contributions to crucial aspects of North Americanization in Latin America. Addressing categories such as culture, gender, and nation the articles provide new approaches to the study of inter- and trans-American relations in the twentieth century from the perspectives of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and American studies scholars.

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Stefan Rinke, geb. 1965, lehrt seit 2005 als Professor für Geschichte Lateinamerikas am Lateinamerika-Institut und am Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut der Freien Universität Berlin. Er gilt als ausgewiesener Kenner der Geschichte des amerikanischen Kontinents.

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Table of content

  • Cover
  • Impressum
  • Contents
  • Between "Moral Conquest" and Global Integration
  • Part I: North Americanization in the Global Context
  • Americanization and Anti-Americanism in the Age of Globalization
  • A Transformational Vision: The American State and Private Sectors in Latin America
  • "Americanization" and Mortuary Ritual in Greater Mexico
  • Part II: Consumerism and the Rise of Mass Cultures
  • Marketing 'Necessities': The Casa Booker and the Emergence of the Department Store
  • The American Way of After-Life
  • Part III: Gender Relations and the Role of the U. S. Model
  • Beauty, National Identity, and Cuban Interface with the United States
  • Voyeuristic Exoticism: The Multiple Uses of the Image of U. S. Women in Chile
  • Part IV: Elite Culture Between Imitation and Delimitation
  • Visions from the South
  • Mutual Constructions of a Usable Tradition
  • Part V: The American 'Other' and the Reconstruction of the Nation
  • "Down Mexico Way": Stereotypes and American Tourism
  • The Popular Fronts and Folklore
  • Armed Resistance and Anti-Intervention Diplomacy
  • Contributors
  • Backcover

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