Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America

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Preface

Introduction: Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America
Hendrik Kraay

Part I: Defining Nations

"Let Us Be Brazilians on the Day of Our Nationality:" Independence Celebrations in Rio De Janeiro, 1840s-1860s
Hendrik Kraay

Performing the Masculine Nation: Soldiers of the Mexican Army, 1976-1910
Stephen Neufeld

Playing with National Identity: Brazil in International Football, 1900-1925
Gregg P. Bocketti

Part II: Foreigners in Latin America

Merchants, Abolitionists, and Slave Traders: Brazilian Perceptions of the British in Bahia, 1808-1850
Louise H. Guenther

Cooking Class; Order and the Other in the Corporate Kitchens of Latin America
Ronald N. Harpelle

(Re)turning Home: Narratives of Bolivian Transnational Migrants
Maria Eugenia Brockmann Dannemaier

Part III: Race and Identity in Brazil

Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Rio de Janeiro's Port: The Coffee and Warehouse Workers Resistance Society.1905-1909
Maria Cecilia Velasco e Cruz

The Brazilian Mulata: A Wood for All Works
Jennifer J. Manthei

Part IV: Community Identities

The Cah: Place and the Identity of Chemax Maya
Denise Fay Brown

Creating Identity out of Place: An Indigenous Community in Argentina
Denise Fay Brown

Becoming Nature's Defenders: Fashionable Identities and Subversive Community in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala
Julie Gibbings

Contributors
Index