Author: Lara Putnam
Publisher:
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Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Public Women and One-pant Men
Author: Lara Putnam
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
The Company They Kept
Author: Lara Putnam
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807862231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
In the late nineteenth century, migrants from Jamaica, Colombia, Barbados, and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, building railroads, digging canals, selling meals, and farming homesteads. On the rain-forested shores of Costa Rica, U.S. entrepreneurs and others established vast banana plantations. Over the next half-century, short-lived export booms drew tens of thousands of migrants to the region. In Port Limon, birthplace of the United Fruit Company, a single building might house a Russian seamstress, a Martinican madam, a Cuban doctor, and a Chinese barkeep--together with stevedores, laundresses, and laborers from across the Caribbean. Tracing the changing contours of gender, kinship, and community in Costa Rica's plantation region, Lara Putnam explores new questions about the work of caring for children and men and how it fit into the export economy, the role of kinship as well as cash in structuring labor, the social networks that shaped migrants' lives, and the impact of ideas about race and sex on the exercise of power. Based on sources that range from handwritten autobiographies to judicial transcripts and addressing topics from intimacy between prostitutes to insults between neighbors, the book illuminates the connections between political economy, popular culture, and everyday life.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807862231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
In the late nineteenth century, migrants from Jamaica, Colombia, Barbados, and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, building railroads, digging canals, selling meals, and farming homesteads. On the rain-forested shores of Costa Rica, U.S. entrepreneurs and others established vast banana plantations. Over the next half-century, short-lived export booms drew tens of thousands of migrants to the region. In Port Limon, birthplace of the United Fruit Company, a single building might house a Russian seamstress, a Martinican madam, a Cuban doctor, and a Chinese barkeep--together with stevedores, laundresses, and laborers from across the Caribbean. Tracing the changing contours of gender, kinship, and community in Costa Rica's plantation region, Lara Putnam explores new questions about the work of caring for children and men and how it fit into the export economy, the role of kinship as well as cash in structuring labor, the social networks that shaped migrants' lives, and the impact of ideas about race and sex on the exercise of power. Based on sources that range from handwritten autobiographies to judicial transcripts and addressing topics from intimacy between prostitutes to insults between neighbors, the book illuminates the connections between political economy, popular culture, and everyday life.
Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1980
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1980
Book Description
The Public
Author:
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
The Public
Author: Louis Freeland Post
Publisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1278
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1278
Book Description
Public Opinion
Author:
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Women of the 89th Congress
Author: United States. Women's Bureau
Publisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Palgrave Handbook of Fashion and Politics
Author: Karen M. Kedrowski
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031570731
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031570731
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Public Roads
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Highway research
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Highway research
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Young Muslim Women in India
Author: Kabita Chakraborty
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317378490
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book, based on extensive, original research, details the changing lives of youth living in slum communities (bustees) in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). Using young people’s own photos, art and narratives, the book explores how Muslim girls and young women are contributing to, and impacted by, changing youth culture in India. We are invited into the risky world of mixed-sex dance taking place in clandestine spaces in the slums. We join young people on their journeys to find premarital romance and witness their strategic and savvy risk taking when participating in transgressive aspects of consumer culture. The book reveals how social changes in India, including greater education and employment opportunities, as well as powerful middle class Muslim reform discourses, are impacting youth the very local level. More than just fantasy we see that Bollywood is an important role model which young people consult. By carefully negotiating risks and performing multiple identities inspired by modernity, globalization and, most of all, Bollywood culture, young people actively participate in a changing India and disrupt dominant discourses about slum youth as poor victims who are excluded from social change.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317378490
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book, based on extensive, original research, details the changing lives of youth living in slum communities (bustees) in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). Using young people’s own photos, art and narratives, the book explores how Muslim girls and young women are contributing to, and impacted by, changing youth culture in India. We are invited into the risky world of mixed-sex dance taking place in clandestine spaces in the slums. We join young people on their journeys to find premarital romance and witness their strategic and savvy risk taking when participating in transgressive aspects of consumer culture. The book reveals how social changes in India, including greater education and employment opportunities, as well as powerful middle class Muslim reform discourses, are impacting youth the very local level. More than just fantasy we see that Bollywood is an important role model which young people consult. By carefully negotiating risks and performing multiple identities inspired by modernity, globalization and, most of all, Bollywood culture, young people actively participate in a changing India and disrupt dominant discourses about slum youth as poor victims who are excluded from social change.