Good Neighbor Empires

Children and Cultural Capital in the Americas
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-70996-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 04, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Critical Latin America

A class of child artists in Mexico, a ship full of child refugees from Spain, classrooms of child pageant actors, and a pair of boy ambassadors revealed facets of hemispheric politics in the Good Neighbor era. Culture-makers in the Americas tuned into to children as producers of cultural capital to advance their transnational projects. In many instances, prevailing conceptions of children as innocent, primitive, dependent, and underdeveloped informed perceptions of Latin America as an infantilized region, a lesser "Other Americas" on the continent. In other cases, children's interventions in the cultural politics, economic projects, and diplomatic endeavors of the interwar period revealed that Latin American children saw themselves as modern, professional, participants in forging inter-American relationships.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson Albarrán, Elena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Tables and Figures

Introduction: Children, Empire, and Development in the Americas

1 Children and Youth Mobilized

2 Infantilized Subjects and Governability

3 Children as Subjects, Objects, and Agents

4 Chapter Organization

Part 1: Artists

Introduction to Part 1

1 Los tres grandes y unos chiquitos: Primitivism and Childhood in the Mexican Art Renaissance

1 The Infantilization of Latin America/ns

2 Childhood as a Metaphor for Development

3 Primitivism, Folklore, and the Indian in Modern Art

4 Institutionalizing Hemispheric Aesthetics

5 Conclusion

2 Primitive Geniuses: the Transnational Circulation of Children’s Art from Taxco

1 Guerrero and Vermont

2 A Word about Rescuing Children’s History from the Archive

3 Elsa Rogo and the Transnationality of the Open-Air Art School in Taxco

4 Taxco 1931: Primitive Paradise or Cosmopolitan Hub?

5 Techniques in the Taxco School

6 3,000 Miles from Mexico

7 Little Empresarios

8 Conclusion

Part 2: Exiles

Introduction to Part 2

3 Spanish Cubs of the Aztec Eagle: the Niños Españoles and Parenting as Statecraft

1 Manufacturing Public Opinion: the Spanish Civil War Comes to Mexico

2 From Mother Spain to Dependent of the Mexican State, 1519–1937

3 The Orphan Myth and Cardenista Family Metaphors

4 The Living Parents of Orphans

5 Conclusions

4 Tata Cárdenas and the Escuela España-México

1 The Escuela España-México

2 Tata Cárdenas: the Revolutionary Father Figure

3 Battle for Hearts and Minds: Communists and Catholics at the Escuela España-México

4 The Fate of the Niños de Morelia

5 Conclusions

Part 3: Diplomats

Introduction to Part 3

5 A Hemispheric Family Affair: Washington and the Other Americas

1 Pan-Americanism and the Two Americas

2 The Other Americas Talk Back

3 The PAU’s Division of Intellectual Cooperation

4 Children’s Exchanges as Official Pan-Americanism

5 Pan American Day

6 “We Make Sombreros!” Racial and Ethnic Representations of Latin America

7 “Once a Pan Am-er, Always a Pan Am-er”: Pan Americanism in the US Classroom

8 Conclusion

6 Diplomats of Development: Children’s Exchanges in a Wartime Economy

1 “Acercamiento Espiritual”: Vertical and Horizontal Ties

2 A Tale of Two Roberts: the “Short-Pants Ambassadors” of Wartime Brotherhood

3 Promoting Resource Knowledge about the Other Americas

4 Conclusion

Epilogue

Conclusions: Two Americas, Other Americas, Nuestra América

Archives

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elena Jackson Albarrán, Ph.D. (2008), University of Arizona, is Associate Professor of History and Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University of Ohio. She is the author of the book Seen and Heard in Mexico: Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism (University of Nebraska Press, 2015), and co-editor of the volume Nuevas miradas a la historia de la infancia en América Latina: entre prácticas y representaciones (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2012), as well as several articles and chapters.