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The Long Road: Eisenhower’S Inter-American Highway: The Path To Economic Investment, Political Stability, And Collective Security In Central America, Jacob A. Ross Apr 2015

The Long Road: Eisenhower’S Inter-American Highway: The Path To Economic Investment, Political Stability, And Collective Security In Central America, Jacob A. Ross

Student Publications

This paper explores the anti-communist Cold War tactics of public diplomacy as undertaken by the Eisenhower Administration. The focus of this paper is the Inter-American Highway: a program which the U.S. government funded and constructed to develop Central America economically, politically, and beyond. Funding for this program was increased and supported by the president because it fit the axiom of spending as little money as possible in the Cold War, but spending it in a way to be effective in the battle against Soviet communism. The stance of the U.S. government was to provide Central America with increased infrastructure development …


El Futuro Es La Historia: El Pasado Doloroso Y Las Generaciones Futuros En Los Espacios De Memoria En Buenos Aires / The Future Is History: The Painful Past And Future Generations In Memory Sites In Buenos Aires, Leslie Niiro Apr 2015

El Futuro Es La Historia: El Pasado Doloroso Y Las Generaciones Futuros En Los Espacios De Memoria En Buenos Aires / The Future Is History: The Painful Past And Future Generations In Memory Sites In Buenos Aires, Leslie Niiro

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Para contar una historia reciente y dolorosa a otros que no vivieron esta historia, con la esperanza de que no ocurra más, nunca puede ser objetivo en un ‘espacio de la memoria’. Casi siempre se lleva una agenda social, una mirada al futuro y para muchos, esta esperanza es en la próxima generación. En esta investigación, miro a la historia de la última junta cívico-militar (1976-1983) y las décadas después para entender de qué forma trabajan los espacios de la memoria para enseñar la historia reciente a estudiantes. Abordada por entrevistas, visitas guiadas, y observaciones participantes en espacios de la …


Book Review: Thomas C. Field, Jr. From Development To Dictatorship: Bolivia And The Alliance For Progress In The Kennedy Era., Dustin Walcher, Thomas Tunstall Allcock, Philip E. Muehlenbeck, Amy C. Offner, James F. Siekmeier, Thomas C. Field Jr. Mar 2015

Book Review: Thomas C. Field, Jr. From Development To Dictatorship: Bolivia And The Alliance For Progress In The Kennedy Era., Dustin Walcher, Thomas Tunstall Allcock, Philip E. Muehlenbeck, Amy C. Offner, James F. Siekmeier, Thomas C. Field Jr.

Publications

This document offers reviews and discussion of Thomas C. Field, Jr.’s book From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5260-4 (hardcover, $45.00).


Ernie Colunga And Rudy Ramirez, Csusb Mar 2015

Ernie Colunga And Rudy Ramirez, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Ernie Gomez, Csusb Mar 2015

Ernie Gomez, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Eddie Cortez, Csusb Mar 2015

Eddie Cortez, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Gabriela Gonzales And Others, Csusb Feb 2015

Gabriela Gonzales And Others, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Crossing The Atlantic: Emilio Pettoruti's Italian Immersion, Lauren A. Kaplan Feb 2015

Crossing The Atlantic: Emilio Pettoruti's Italian Immersion, Lauren A. Kaplan

Artl@s Bulletin

The painter Emilio Pettoruti (1892-1971) was born to Italian parents in the Argentine province of La Plata. In 1913, he sailed to Florence for artistic training and remained in Europe for eleven years. This article focuses on this formative stint, during which Pettoruti studied Quattrocento masters, conferred with Italian Futurists, and met French Cubists. Ultimately, the painter became a paragon of civiltá italiana, a cosmopolitan culture born in Italy but meant for global dissemination. Upon returning to Buenos Aires in 1924, he exposing the Argentine public to this culture, strengthening the already robust bond between the two countries.


Dolores Galvez Crouter And Carole Galvez-Salazar, Csusb Feb 2015

Dolores Galvez Crouter And Carole Galvez-Salazar, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Bertha Bocanegra-Guerrero, Csusb Feb 2015

Bertha Bocanegra-Guerrero, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Cecilia Cabrera And Family, Csusb Feb 2015

Cecilia Cabrera And Family, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Collection Revitalization At The University Of New Mexico Libraries, Samuel E. Sisneros Feb 2015

Collection Revitalization At The University Of New Mexico Libraries, Samuel E. Sisneros

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

This article discusses a project that took an early archival manuscript collection that was poorly described and catalogued, and underused and revitalized it (in a sense recovered a lost collection) by re-describing it and digitizing material from the collection for better (new) public access.


Adaljiza “Ada” Sosa-Riddell, Csusb Jan 2015

Adaljiza “Ada” Sosa-Riddell, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Frank Aguayo, Csusb Jan 2015

Frank Aguayo, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Dora Felix, Csusb Jan 2015

Dora Felix, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Twelve Years A Terror: U.S. Impact In The 12-Year Civil War In El Salvador, Cara E. Mckinney Jan 2015

Twelve Years A Terror: U.S. Impact In The 12-Year Civil War In El Salvador, Cara E. Mckinney

International ResearchScape Journal

This essay explores the impacts of the United States government and military in the civil war in El Salvador in a comprehensive historical study. Through the presence of monetary aid, a disregard for the human rights of people in El Salvador, and the presence of U.S. trained soldiers at the then School of Americas and the current Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, the U.S. prolonged and augmented the negative effects of the Salvadoran Civil War.


Eddie Castorena And Armando “Ray” Sanchez, Csusb Jan 2015

Eddie Castorena And Armando “Ray” Sanchez, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Mel Salazar (Part 2), Csusb Jan 2015

Mel Salazar (Part 2), Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Bob Carrasco, Csusb Jan 2015

Bob Carrasco, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Literacy And Its Thresholds: Review Of Thresholds Of Iliteracy: Theory, Latin America, And The Crisis Of Resistance By Abraham Acosta, Alfredo Duplat Jan 2015

Literacy And Its Thresholds: Review Of Thresholds Of Iliteracy: Theory, Latin America, And The Crisis Of Resistance By Abraham Acosta, Alfredo Duplat

World Languages & Cultures Department Publications

Review of Thresholds of Illiteracy: Theory, Latin America, and the Crisis of Resistance by Abraham Acosta.


Swenson Center Report, Dr. Christopher Strunk Jan 2015

Swenson Center Report, Dr. Christopher Strunk

Swenson Center Faculty Research Stipend Reports

As a migration scholar, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to spend a week this summer conducting research in the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center. During my three years at Augustana, my students and I have explored urban development and recent patterns of immigrant and refugee settlement in the Quad Cities. In places like the Floreciente neighborhood of Moline, located about a mile from Augustana’s campus on the west side of the city, the Mexican and Mexican American community is transforming a landscape that had already been influenced by a much earlier wave of migration from Sweden.


The Disappearing Mestizo, Book Review, Andrew Rosa Jan 2015

The Disappearing Mestizo, Book Review, Andrew Rosa

History Faculty Publications

The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Grenada. Joanne Rappaport. Duke University Press, 2014, 368 pp., $25.99, paper. By probing “when and how” an individual was considered a mestizo (a person of mixed heritage) in the early colonial New Kingdom of Grenada (modern-day Columbia), Joanne Rappaport’s Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada (Duke University Press, 2014) adds to the growing scholarship on racial difference in colonial Spanish America.


“A Man With A Wide Horizon": The Postwar Professional Journey Of Ss Officer Karl Nicolussi-Leck, Gerald Steinacher Jan 2015

“A Man With A Wide Horizon": The Postwar Professional Journey Of Ss Officer Karl Nicolussi-Leck, Gerald Steinacher

Department of History: Faculty Publications

In his biography of SS Obergruppenführer Werner Best, the German historian Ulrich Herbert coined the phrase Ausgrenzung in den Wohlstand, or "exclusion into prosperity." According to Herbert, "for those excluded from politics and public service, there remained the liberal professions and business, mostly provided by old contacts, some dating from their student days.” Yet there are few studies on the postwar professional lives of former high-ranking Nazis and SS officers. Among them are Norbert Frei's edited volume Karrieren im Zwielicht (Careers in the twilight) and a dozen or so biographical studies, such as Herbert's work on Best. Former …


Indigenous And Black Intellectuals In The Lettered City, Jason Dyck Jan 2015

Indigenous And Black Intellectuals In The Lettered City, Jason Dyck

FIMS Publications

No abstract provided.


Las Casas Remembered:The 500th Anniversary Of The Struggle For The Human Rights Of The Native Peoples Of America, David M. Traboulay Jan 2015

Las Casas Remembered:The 500th Anniversary Of The Struggle For The Human Rights Of The Native Peoples Of America, David M. Traboulay

Publications and Research

At first a part of the colonial system as an encomendero, he later dedicated his life to the struggle for justice and human rights of the indigenous peoples of America. At the grand debate of 1551 between Dr. Sepulveda and Las Casas, Las Casas presented a very modern view of human rights that is one of the useful models of human rights for the contemporary world.


A Problem Of Biography: A Study Of Simón Bolívar In Historical Record, Austin Crittenden Jan 2015

A Problem Of Biography: A Study Of Simón Bolívar In Historical Record, Austin Crittenden

History - Master of Arts in Teaching

I. Synthesis Essay………………………………2

II. Bibliography…………………………………....25

III. Textbook Critique……………………………...26

IV. Primary Documents and Headnotes………..34


Voz Alta: The Sound Of A Collective Memory, Sarah E. Kleinman Jan 2015

Voz Alta: The Sound Of A Collective Memory, Sarah E. Kleinman

Graduate Research Posters

Voz Alta is a participatory, voice-activated public light installation designed by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer as a memorial for the Tlatelolco massacre, which occurred on October 2, 1968 in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, Mexico. In the Plaza, Lozano-Hemmer has synchronized a megaphone with a 10 kW Xenon robotic searchlight. As each participant speaks into the megaphone, the searchlight shines to the uppermost floor of the towering Centro Cultural Tlatelolco (CCT) building where three additional searchlights instantaneously strobe, dim, and brighten, illuminating the nocturnal landscape in horizontally fixed, tangential beams. Although the aesthetic, social, historical, and political aspects of …


The Indigenous In Peruvian National Identity, Danielle Bartels Jan 2015

The Indigenous In Peruvian National Identity, Danielle Bartels

Undergraduate Research Journal

Indigenous peoples populate countries across the globe. In every country, issues of the national identity of the indigenous are important. With the aid of case studies, we can better comprehend the depth of these problems. Focusing on the intellectual history in a case study of Peru, I aim to understand the antagonistic behaviors against indigenous cultures and how the nation state chose to handle their indigenous population over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.


Maestros De La Manipulación: Titiriteros De La Memoria Histórica En No De Pablo Larraín Y La Niña De Tus Ojos De Fernando Trueba / Master Manipulators: Puppeteers Of Historical Memory In No By Pablo Larraín And The Girl Of Your Dreams By Fernando Trueba, Polly J. Hodge Jan 2015

Maestros De La Manipulación: Titiriteros De La Memoria Histórica En No De Pablo Larraín Y La Niña De Tus Ojos De Fernando Trueba / Master Manipulators: Puppeteers Of Historical Memory In No By Pablo Larraín And The Girl Of Your Dreams By Fernando Trueba, Polly J. Hodge

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Articles and Research

Se exploran dos obras cinematográficas, No de Pablo Larraín y La niña de tus ojos de Fernando Trueba, en función de sus raíces literarias y el concepto de la memoria histórica. Las obras basadas en eventos históricos intensos y violentos tienen la capacidad de retratar la dialéctica entre la memoria y la amnesia histórica. De esta manera se estimula el impulso por desenmascarar los sistemas de poder y dialogar con la sociedad actual. En el proceso, se descubren soluciones alternativas a la violencia para tratar los problemas políticos.


La Voz January 2015, El Instituto: Institute Of Latina/O, Caribbean, And Latin American Studies Jan 2015

La Voz January 2015, El Instituto: Institute Of Latina/O, Caribbean, And Latin American Studies

La Voz

In this issue:

  • Mead Lecture: Jossiana Arroyo-Martinez
  • Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer
  • El Instituto Internship Placement
  • Blood Rising: Art and Social Justice