Neil Schneiderman
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195324273
- eISBN:
- 9780199893966
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195324273.003.0022
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter presents an overview of the two chapters (Chapters 17-18) in Part V of the book. The chapters deal with two case studies, each describing how multidisciplinary teams of investigators ...
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This chapter presents an overview of the two chapters (Chapters 17-18) in Part V of the book. The chapters deal with two case studies, each describing how multidisciplinary teams of investigators working in culturally diverse metropolitan locations, San Francisco (Bay Area) and Miami (Miami–Dade County), set out to confront HIV/ AIDS in two major epicenters of the disease. The institutional similarities and differences in the approaches used to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic are discussed.Less
This chapter presents an overview of the two chapters (Chapters 17-18) in Part V of the book. The chapters deal with two case studies, each describing how multidisciplinary teams of investigators working in culturally diverse metropolitan locations, San Francisco (Bay Area) and Miami (Miami–Dade County), set out to confront HIV/ AIDS in two major epicenters of the disease. The institutional similarities and differences in the approaches used to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic are discussed.
Neil Schneiderman and Michael Antoni
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195324273
- eISBN:
- 9780199893966
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195324273.003.0023
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter presents an interdisciplinary research program in Miami that focused on group-based, cognitive behavioral stress management (CBSM) interventions among HIV-infected individuals. It begins ...
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This chapter presents an interdisciplinary research program in Miami that focused on group-based, cognitive behavioral stress management (CBSM) interventions among HIV-infected individuals. It begins with a brief introduction to the common language that has allowed the research team to share and integrate basic concepts. It then discusses how psychosocial variables that affect quality of life in individuals with HIV can influence the subclinical markers of disease that are associated with disease progression and mortality. This is followed by discussion of the revolution in HIV patient management brought about by combination therapy and the advent of protease inhibitors.Less
This chapter presents an interdisciplinary research program in Miami that focused on group-based, cognitive behavioral stress management (CBSM) interventions among HIV-infected individuals. It begins with a brief introduction to the common language that has allowed the research team to share and integrate basic concepts. It then discusses how psychosocial variables that affect quality of life in individuals with HIV can influence the subclinical markers of disease that are associated with disease progression and mortality. This is followed by discussion of the revolution in HIV patient management brought about by combination therapy and the advent of protease inhibitors.
Ron Rodman
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195340242
- eISBN:
- 9780199863778
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195340242.003.0009
- Subject:
- Music, Popular, History, American
Using the notion of musical style topics (Agawu 1992, Ratner 1980, and Monelle 2000), this chapter traces the evolution of musical style and its effect on meaning in the genre of the police drama. ...
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Using the notion of musical style topics (Agawu 1992, Ratner 1980, and Monelle 2000), this chapter traces the evolution of musical style and its effect on meaning in the genre of the police drama. Style topics are musical figures in a television score that convey meaning by referencing aspects of common knowledge and practices in society accessible to television viewers. After defining various style topics for television music, the chapter analyzes music from police dramas from the 1950s to the 1990s. Musical themes to such shows as Dragnet, M Squad, Adam‐12, Hawaii Five‐O, Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, NYPD Blue, and Homicide illustrate musical styles that depict a popular view of the police during each decade. The military march topic of the theme of Dragnet portrays the police as efficient, paramilitary enforcers of the law, while the rock topic for Miami Vice would be read as signifying cool cops.Less
Using the notion of musical style topics (Agawu 1992, Ratner 1980, and Monelle 2000), this chapter traces the evolution of musical style and its effect on meaning in the genre of the police drama. Style topics are musical figures in a television score that convey meaning by referencing aspects of common knowledge and practices in society accessible to television viewers. After defining various style topics for television music, the chapter analyzes music from police dramas from the 1950s to the 1990s. Musical themes to such shows as Dragnet, M Squad, Adam‐12, Hawaii Five‐O, Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, NYPD Blue, and Homicide illustrate musical styles that depict a popular view of the police during each decade. The military march topic of the theme of Dragnet portrays the police as efficient, paramilitary enforcers of the law, while the rock topic for Miami Vice would be read as signifying cool cops.
Julio Capó
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781469635200
- eISBN:
- 9781469635217
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469635200.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today’s Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference. As Julio ...
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Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today’s Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference. As Julio Capó Jr. shows in this fascinating history, Miami’s transnational connections reveal that the city has been a queer borderland for over a century. In chronicling Miami’s queer past from its 1896 founding through 1940, Capó shows the multifaceted ways gender and sexual renegades made the city their own. Drawing from a multilingual archive, Capó unearths the forgotten history of "fairyland," a marketing term crafted by boosters that held multiple meanings for different groups of people. In viewing Miami as a contested colonial space, he turns our attention to migrants and immigrants, tourism, and trade to and from the Caribbean—particularly the Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti—to expand the geographic and methodological parameters of urban and queer history. Recovering the world of Miami’s old saloons, brothels, immigration checkpoints, borders, nightclubs, bars, and cruising sites, Capó makes clear how critical gender and sexual transgression is to understanding the city and the broader region in all its fullness.Less
Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today’s Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference. As Julio Capó Jr. shows in this fascinating history, Miami’s transnational connections reveal that the city has been a queer borderland for over a century. In chronicling Miami’s queer past from its 1896 founding through 1940, Capó shows the multifaceted ways gender and sexual renegades made the city their own. Drawing from a multilingual archive, Capó unearths the forgotten history of "fairyland," a marketing term crafted by boosters that held multiple meanings for different groups of people. In viewing Miami as a contested colonial space, he turns our attention to migrants and immigrants, tourism, and trade to and from the Caribbean—particularly the Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti—to expand the geographic and methodological parameters of urban and queer history. Recovering the world of Miami’s old saloons, brothels, immigration checkpoints, borders, nightclubs, bars, and cruising sites, Capó makes clear how critical gender and sexual transgression is to understanding the city and the broader region in all its fullness.
Steven P. Kurtz
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195326789
- eISBN:
- 9780199870356
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326789.003.0007
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter describes how gay men attempt to locate themselves in an environment in which change, spectacle, and the search for altered states of being are the main constants. It draws on extensive ...
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This chapter describes how gay men attempt to locate themselves in an environment in which change, spectacle, and the search for altered states of being are the main constants. It draws on extensive qualitative data collected over a decade to trace patterns in the narratives that gay men use to describe their experiences as they absorb and sometimes separate from the sex-drug pleasure dome that Miami is often seen to represent. The chapter presents the story of how men from diverse backgrounds integrate the sense of themselves as developed throughout childhood and adolescence (“Kansas”) into this urban space that for most of them feels like “Oz”.Less
This chapter describes how gay men attempt to locate themselves in an environment in which change, spectacle, and the search for altered states of being are the main constants. It draws on extensive qualitative data collected over a decade to trace patterns in the narratives that gay men use to describe their experiences as they absorb and sometimes separate from the sex-drug pleasure dome that Miami is often seen to represent. The chapter presents the story of how men from diverse backgrounds integrate the sense of themselves as developed throughout childhood and adolescence (“Kansas”) into this urban space that for most of them feels like “Oz”.
Christina D. Abreu
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469620848
- eISBN:
- 9781469620862
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469620848.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the ...
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Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha chá. Presenting a history of music and race in midcentury America, this book argues that these musicians, through their work in music festivals, nightclubs, social clubs, and television and film productions, played central roles in the development of Cuban, Afro-Cuban, Latino, and Afro-Latino identities and communities. The book draws from previously untapped oral histories, cultural materials, and Spanish-language media to uncover the lives and broader social and cultural significance of these vibrant performers.Less
Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha chá. Presenting a history of music and race in midcentury America, this book argues that these musicians, through their work in music festivals, nightclubs, social clubs, and television and film productions, played central roles in the development of Cuban, Afro-Cuban, Latino, and Afro-Latino identities and communities. The book draws from previously untapped oral histories, cultural materials, and Spanish-language media to uncover the lives and broader social and cultural significance of these vibrant performers.
Joe B. Hall, Marianne Walker, and Rick Bozich
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813178561
- eISBN:
- 9780813178578
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813178561.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
Joe B. discusses his parents’ struggle during the Depression and the family’s move from Kentucky to Miami, where his father and mother both find jobs.
Joe B. discusses his parents’ struggle during the Depression and the family’s move from Kentucky to Miami, where his father and mother both find jobs.
Joe B. Hall, Marianne Walker, and Rick Bozich
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813178561
- eISBN:
- 9780813178578
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813178561.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
Relates the trouble Joe B., then six years old, and his brother get into for spending their days swimming in the ocean instead of going to school.
Relates the trouble Joe B., then six years old, and his brother get into for spending their days swimming in the ocean instead of going to school.
Steven W. Bender
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814791257
- eISBN:
- 9780814739136
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814791257.003.0011
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
This chapter explores the urban geographies of Cuban American residents in Miami as part of the Cuban diaspora. Arriving in a city with pronounced segregation between Black and Anglo residents, Cuban ...
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This chapter explores the urban geographies of Cuban American residents in Miami as part of the Cuban diaspora. Arriving in a city with pronounced segregation between Black and Anglo residents, Cuban Americans formed enclaves in older middle-class residential neighborhoods in Miami, and today comprise more than 90 percent of the so-called Little Havana neighborhood. Cuba’s own housing policies and land reform are explored, as well.Less
This chapter explores the urban geographies of Cuban American residents in Miami as part of the Cuban diaspora. Arriving in a city with pronounced segregation between Black and Anglo residents, Cuban Americans formed enclaves in older middle-class residential neighborhoods in Miami, and today comprise more than 90 percent of the so-called Little Havana neighborhood. Cuba’s own housing policies and land reform are explored, as well.
Albert Sergio Laguna
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479836017
- eISBN:
- 9781479820306
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479836017.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Diversión contends that our understanding of the Cuban diaspora is lacking not in seriousness, but in play. Against the melancholia, anger, and pain that have defined dominant characterizations of ...
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Diversión contends that our understanding of the Cuban diaspora is lacking not in seriousness, but in play. Against the melancholia, anger, and pain that have defined dominant characterizations of Cuban America, Laguna provides an affective complement for understanding this community by insisting on the centrality of ludic popular culture for a diaspora that has completely transformed in the last twenty-five years. The majority of Cuban America is now made up of arrivals since the 1990s and the US-born generation—two segments that have received little attention in cultural studies scholarship. Diversión examines these generational shifts and tensions through readings of a wide range of playful popular culture forms originating in Miami and Cuba from the 1970s through the 2010s. These include the standup of comedians like Guillermo Alvarez Guedes and Robertico, festivals like Cuba Nostalgia, a form of media distribution on the island called el paquete, and the viral social media content of Los Pichy Boys. By unpacking this archive, Laguna explores our complex, often fraught attachments to popular culture and the way it can challenge and reify normative ideologies—especially in relation to politics and race. Transnational in his approach, Laguna argues that this at times ephemeral archive of diversión is crucial for understanding not only the diaspora, but increasingly, life on the island.Less
Diversión contends that our understanding of the Cuban diaspora is lacking not in seriousness, but in play. Against the melancholia, anger, and pain that have defined dominant characterizations of Cuban America, Laguna provides an affective complement for understanding this community by insisting on the centrality of ludic popular culture for a diaspora that has completely transformed in the last twenty-five years. The majority of Cuban America is now made up of arrivals since the 1990s and the US-born generation—two segments that have received little attention in cultural studies scholarship. Diversión examines these generational shifts and tensions through readings of a wide range of playful popular culture forms originating in Miami and Cuba from the 1970s through the 2010s. These include the standup of comedians like Guillermo Alvarez Guedes and Robertico, festivals like Cuba Nostalgia, a form of media distribution on the island called el paquete, and the viral social media content of Los Pichy Boys. By unpacking this archive, Laguna explores our complex, often fraught attachments to popular culture and the way it can challenge and reify normative ideologies—especially in relation to politics and race. Transnational in his approach, Laguna argues that this at times ephemeral archive of diversión is crucial for understanding not only the diaspora, but increasingly, life on the island.
Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780520297104
- eISBN:
- 9780520969612
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520297104.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
Over the last quarter of a century, no other city like Miami has rapidly transformed into a global city. This book charts the social tensions and unexpected consequences of this remarkable process of ...
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Over the last quarter of a century, no other city like Miami has rapidly transformed into a global city. This book charts the social tensions and unexpected consequences of this remarkable process of change. Acting as a follow-up to City on the Edge, this book examines Miami in the context of globalization and scrutinizes its newfound place as a stellar international city. The book examines Miami's rise as a finance and banking center without parallel in the US South to the simultaneous emergence of a highly diverse but contentious ethnic mosaic. The book serves as a case study of Miami's present cultural, economic, and political transformation, and describes how its future course can provide key lessons for other metropolitan areas throughout the world.Less
Over the last quarter of a century, no other city like Miami has rapidly transformed into a global city. This book charts the social tensions and unexpected consequences of this remarkable process of change. Acting as a follow-up to City on the Edge, this book examines Miami in the context of globalization and scrutinizes its newfound place as a stellar international city. The book examines Miami's rise as a finance and banking center without parallel in the US South to the simultaneous emergence of a highly diverse but contentious ethnic mosaic. The book serves as a case study of Miami's present cultural, economic, and political transformation, and describes how its future course can provide key lessons for other metropolitan areas throughout the world.
Gregory W. Bush
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062648
- eISBN:
- 9780813051628
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062648.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
The unique story and current state of public space in southern Florida are interwoven with the history of segregation. Virginia Key Beach provides a lens for examining the interaction of notions of ...
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The unique story and current state of public space in southern Florida are interwoven with the history of segregation. Virginia Key Beach provides a lens for examining the interaction of notions of space, race, and capitalism. The first legally recognized beach for African Americans in South Florida, it became an important place of community which nurtured further civil rights activism until African Americans achieved access to all beaches—after which many viewed Virginia Key Beach as symbolic of an oppressive past and ceased to patronize it. At the same time, white leaders responded to desegregation by decreasing attention to and funding for public spaces in general. In Miami, this interacted with America’s ever decreasing sense of place: a tourist economy with its culture of spectacle, government budgetary woes, and neoliberal policies to bring about a spreading pattern of privatization of public land and loss of green spaces—particularly on the waterfront. In recent decades however, local grassroots activists have found in this history common ground for unified action, as environmentalists and African Americans came together to maintain and revitalize public park space on Virginia Key. This book is about the power of previously lost voices to redefine and reclaim the piece of land at the center of this narrative. Recent developments illustrate the potential of new forms of civic engagement in public planning processes. As a place of fellowship, relaxation, and interaction with nature, this beach became a common ground of hope for a better future. Yet major challenges remain.Less
The unique story and current state of public space in southern Florida are interwoven with the history of segregation. Virginia Key Beach provides a lens for examining the interaction of notions of space, race, and capitalism. The first legally recognized beach for African Americans in South Florida, it became an important place of community which nurtured further civil rights activism until African Americans achieved access to all beaches—after which many viewed Virginia Key Beach as symbolic of an oppressive past and ceased to patronize it. At the same time, white leaders responded to desegregation by decreasing attention to and funding for public spaces in general. In Miami, this interacted with America’s ever decreasing sense of place: a tourist economy with its culture of spectacle, government budgetary woes, and neoliberal policies to bring about a spreading pattern of privatization of public land and loss of green spaces—particularly on the waterfront. In recent decades however, local grassroots activists have found in this history common ground for unified action, as environmentalists and African Americans came together to maintain and revitalize public park space on Virginia Key. This book is about the power of previously lost voices to redefine and reclaim the piece of land at the center of this narrative. Recent developments illustrate the potential of new forms of civic engagement in public planning processes. As a place of fellowship, relaxation, and interaction with nature, this beach became a common ground of hope for a better future. Yet major challenges remain.
Terry Rey and Alex Stepick
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814777084
- eISBN:
- 9781479802678
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814777084.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s, significant numbers of Haitian immigrants began to arrive and settle in Miami. Overcoming some of the most foreboding obstacles ever to face immigrants in ...
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Beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s, significant numbers of Haitian immigrants began to arrive and settle in Miami. Overcoming some of the most foreboding obstacles ever to face immigrants in America, they, their children, and now their grandchildren, as well as more recently arriving immigrants from Haiti, have diversified socioeconomically. Together, they have made South Florida home to the largest population of native-born Haitians and diasporic Haitians outside of the Caribbean and one of the most significant Caribbean immigrant communities in the world. Religion has played a central role in making all of this happen. This book is a historical and ethnographic study of Haitian religion in immigrant communities. Where many studies of Haitian religion limit themselves to one faith, the book explores Catholicism, Protestantism, and Vodou in conversation with one another, suggesting that despite the differences between these practices, the three faiths ultimately create a sense of unity, fulfillment, and self-worth in Haitian communities. The book contributes to the growing body of literature on religion among new immigrants, as well as providing a rich exploration of Haitian faith communities.Less
Beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s, significant numbers of Haitian immigrants began to arrive and settle in Miami. Overcoming some of the most foreboding obstacles ever to face immigrants in America, they, their children, and now their grandchildren, as well as more recently arriving immigrants from Haiti, have diversified socioeconomically. Together, they have made South Florida home to the largest population of native-born Haitians and diasporic Haitians outside of the Caribbean and one of the most significant Caribbean immigrant communities in the world. Religion has played a central role in making all of this happen. This book is a historical and ethnographic study of Haitian religion in immigrant communities. Where many studies of Haitian religion limit themselves to one faith, the book explores Catholicism, Protestantism, and Vodou in conversation with one another, suggesting that despite the differences between these practices, the three faiths ultimately create a sense of unity, fulfillment, and self-worth in Haitian communities. The book contributes to the growing body of literature on religion among new immigrants, as well as providing a rich exploration of Haitian faith communities.
Jennifer Tyburczy
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226315102
- eISBN:
- 9780226315386
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226315386.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
Chapter four examines sex museum tourism as an otherwise unacknowledged form of sex tourism that confirms the ever-growing reach of the sexual marketplace as an economy that seizes on local, ...
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Chapter four examines sex museum tourism as an otherwise unacknowledged form of sex tourism that confirms the ever-growing reach of the sexual marketplace as an economy that seizes on local, national, and international travelers’ desires to include some component of sex in their sight-seeing itinerary. Sex museums show how sex and money constitute the architecture of many unexpected urban spaces that go beyond the ones locally marked or governmentally regulated as pleasure zones. In addition to what they display, the strategies that sex museum planners have used to carve out this niche market in the post-industrial sex industry demonstrate how specific kinds of sex permeate the public sphere in ways particular to late capitalism. This chapter exposes some of these strategies by examining the cultural histories of two sex museums in the United States—the Museum of Sex in New York and the World Erotic Art Museum—and pays specific attention to how their owners—Daniel Gluck and Naomi Wilzig—worked both with and against more intelligible forms of sexual commerce to keep their sex museum doors open.Less
Chapter four examines sex museum tourism as an otherwise unacknowledged form of sex tourism that confirms the ever-growing reach of the sexual marketplace as an economy that seizes on local, national, and international travelers’ desires to include some component of sex in their sight-seeing itinerary. Sex museums show how sex and money constitute the architecture of many unexpected urban spaces that go beyond the ones locally marked or governmentally regulated as pleasure zones. In addition to what they display, the strategies that sex museum planners have used to carve out this niche market in the post-industrial sex industry demonstrate how specific kinds of sex permeate the public sphere in ways particular to late capitalism. This chapter exposes some of these strategies by examining the cultural histories of two sex museums in the United States—the Museum of Sex in New York and the World Erotic Art Museum—and pays specific attention to how their owners—Daniel Gluck and Naomi Wilzig—worked both with and against more intelligible forms of sexual commerce to keep their sex museum doors open.
Miguel A. De La Torre
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195162271
- eISBN:
- 9780199850365
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195162271.003.0016
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter discusses the story of Elián Gonzalez. Cuban Catholic priests and laity supported the efforts of Elián's uncle to gain custody of Elián. Cubans flocked to Elián's uncle's home and drew ...
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This chapter discusses the story of Elián Gonzalez. Cuban Catholic priests and laity supported the efforts of Elián's uncle to gain custody of Elián. Cubans flocked to Elián's uncle's home and drew on their faith to pray, protest, and demonstrate against President Bill Clinton's administration and Attorney General Janet Reno, who wanted the child returned to Cuba. The Elián story illustrates how religion, politics, and power merged within the Miami Exilic community. This chapter explores how the power of the Exilic Cuban community in Miami formed their religious response to the Elián story and how that response masks a political agenda designed to maintain and increase the power base of that community. In other words, it attempts to understand how a community of less than a half million Exilic Cubans amassed the power to contest the strongest government in the world, literally confounding the US endeavor to return Elián to Cuba.Less
This chapter discusses the story of Elián Gonzalez. Cuban Catholic priests and laity supported the efforts of Elián's uncle to gain custody of Elián. Cubans flocked to Elián's uncle's home and drew on their faith to pray, protest, and demonstrate against President Bill Clinton's administration and Attorney General Janet Reno, who wanted the child returned to Cuba. The Elián story illustrates how religion, politics, and power merged within the Miami Exilic community. This chapter explores how the power of the Exilic Cuban community in Miami formed their religious response to the Elián story and how that response masks a political agenda designed to maintain and increase the power base of that community. In other words, it attempts to understand how a community of less than a half million Exilic Cubans amassed the power to contest the strongest government in the world, literally confounding the US endeavor to return Elián to Cuba.
Monika Gosin
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501738234
- eISBN:
- 9781501738258
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501738234.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
The Politics of Division deconstructs antagonistic discourses that circulated in local Miami press between African-Americans, “white” Cubans, and “black” Cubans during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift and ...
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The Politics of Division deconstructs antagonistic discourses that circulated in local Miami press between African-Americans, “white” Cubans, and “black” Cubans during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift and the 1994 Balsero Crisis. In its challenge to discourses which pit these groups against one another, the book examines the nuanced ways that identities such as “black,” “white,” and “Cuban” have been constructed and negotiated in the context of Miami’s historical multi-ethnic tensions. The book argues that dominant race-making ideologies of the white establishment regarding “worthy citizenship” shape inter-minority conflict as groups negotiate their precarious positioning within the nation. The book contends that the lived experiences of the African-Americans, white Cubans, and Afro-Cubans involved disrupt binary frames of worthy citizenship narratives, illuminating the greater complexity of racialized identities. Foregrounding the oft-neglected voices of Afro-Cubans, the book highlights how their specific racial positioning offers a challenge to white Cuban-American anti-blackness and complicates narratives that placed African-American “natives” in opposition to (white) Cuban “foreigners,” while revealing also how Afro-Cubans and other Afro-Latinos negotiate racial meanings in the United States. Focusing on the intricacy of interminority tensions in Miami, the book adds dimension to modern debates about race, blackness, immigration, interethnic relations, and national belonging.Less
The Politics of Division deconstructs antagonistic discourses that circulated in local Miami press between African-Americans, “white” Cubans, and “black” Cubans during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift and the 1994 Balsero Crisis. In its challenge to discourses which pit these groups against one another, the book examines the nuanced ways that identities such as “black,” “white,” and “Cuban” have been constructed and negotiated in the context of Miami’s historical multi-ethnic tensions. The book argues that dominant race-making ideologies of the white establishment regarding “worthy citizenship” shape inter-minority conflict as groups negotiate their precarious positioning within the nation. The book contends that the lived experiences of the African-Americans, white Cubans, and Afro-Cubans involved disrupt binary frames of worthy citizenship narratives, illuminating the greater complexity of racialized identities. Foregrounding the oft-neglected voices of Afro-Cubans, the book highlights how their specific racial positioning offers a challenge to white Cuban-American anti-blackness and complicates narratives that placed African-American “natives” in opposition to (white) Cuban “foreigners,” while revealing also how Afro-Cubans and other Afro-Latinos negotiate racial meanings in the United States. Focusing on the intricacy of interminority tensions in Miami, the book adds dimension to modern debates about race, blackness, immigration, interethnic relations, and national belonging.
Christina D. Abreu
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469620848
- eISBN:
- 9781469620862
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469620848.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter turns to Miami and discusses the role of Cubans and Cuban popular culture in the city. It examines the social clubs Círculo Cubano and Juventud Cubana, and the nightclubs Tropicana and ...
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This chapter turns to Miami and discusses the role of Cubans and Cuban popular culture in the city. It examines the social clubs Círculo Cubano and Juventud Cubana, and the nightclubs Tropicana and Barra Guys and Dolls, whose events and activities illustrate the early emergence of “Cuban Miami” in the context of the ideology and racialized practices of Pan-Americanism, and against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution. Through the Spanish-language press, the Cuban groups in the city also demonstrated an early instance of pan-Lantino/a unity in the struggle for social justice. During their stay in Miami, many black Cuban artists found themselves in a Jim Crow city that was protective of its black-white model of racial classification but inconsistent in its treatment and categorization of Cubans and Latino/as of color.Less
This chapter turns to Miami and discusses the role of Cubans and Cuban popular culture in the city. It examines the social clubs Círculo Cubano and Juventud Cubana, and the nightclubs Tropicana and Barra Guys and Dolls, whose events and activities illustrate the early emergence of “Cuban Miami” in the context of the ideology and racialized practices of Pan-Americanism, and against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution. Through the Spanish-language press, the Cuban groups in the city also demonstrated an early instance of pan-Lantino/a unity in the struggle for social justice. During their stay in Miami, many black Cuban artists found themselves in a Jim Crow city that was protective of its black-white model of racial classification but inconsistent in its treatment and categorization of Cubans and Latino/as of color.
Jonathan Romney
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780748693542
- eISBN:
- 9781474406451
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748693542.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter focuses on the films made by Michael Mann, one of the hardcore hustlers of American film and television and Hollywood's foremost urbanist. Mann's heroes are single-minded, to say the ...
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This chapter focuses on the films made by Michael Mann, one of the hardcore hustlers of American film and television and Hollywood's foremost urbanist. Mann's heroes are single-minded, to say the least. The athlete in his 1979 prison movie The Jericho Mile just runs, and when he's not running he sits in his empty cell, flexing. In Manhunter — Mann's 1986 precursor to The Silence of the Lambs — Hannibal Lecter doesn't even run, he just sits and snarls. And James Caan, as the larcenous hero of Thief, turns down an offer from the mob, spitting out: ‘I am Joe the Boss of my own body’. A hungry aspirant to the Stanley Kubrick class of control freak, Mann overlorded, as executive producer, the highly successful Miami Vice for several years. He finally won widespread acclaim, for ambition as much as achievement, with his mammoth treatment of the American wilderness epic The Last of the Mohicans (1992). But the film which finally has even previous detractors muttering about greatness is Heat.Less
This chapter focuses on the films made by Michael Mann, one of the hardcore hustlers of American film and television and Hollywood's foremost urbanist. Mann's heroes are single-minded, to say the least. The athlete in his 1979 prison movie The Jericho Mile just runs, and when he's not running he sits in his empty cell, flexing. In Manhunter — Mann's 1986 precursor to The Silence of the Lambs — Hannibal Lecter doesn't even run, he just sits and snarls. And James Caan, as the larcenous hero of Thief, turns down an offer from the mob, spitting out: ‘I am Joe the Boss of my own body’. A hungry aspirant to the Stanley Kubrick class of control freak, Mann overlorded, as executive producer, the highly successful Miami Vice for several years. He finally won widespread acclaim, for ambition as much as achievement, with his mammoth treatment of the American wilderness epic The Last of the Mohicans (1992). But the film which finally has even previous detractors muttering about greatness is Heat.
Maria Elena Cepeda
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814716915
- eISBN:
- 9780814772904
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814716915.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
Long associated with the pejorative clichés of the drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. This study of the Miami music industry and ...
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Long associated with the pejorative clichés of the drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. This study of the Miami music industry and Miami's growing Colombian community asserts that popular music provides an alternative common space for imagining and enacting Colombian identity. Using an interdisciplinary analysis of popular media, music, and music video, the book teases out issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and transnational identity in the Latino/a music industry and among its most renowned rock enespañol, pop, and vallenato stars. This book provides an overview of the ongoing Colombian political and economic crisis and the dynamics of Colombian immigration to metropolitan Miami. More notably, placed in this context, the book discusses the creative work and media personas of talented Colombian artists Shakira, Andrea Echeverri of Aterciopelados, and Carlos Vives. In an examination of the transnational figures and music that illuminate the recent shifts in the meanings attached to Colombian identity both in the United States and Latin America, the book argues that music is a powerful arbitrator of memory and transnational identity.Less
Long associated with the pejorative clichés of the drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. This study of the Miami music industry and Miami's growing Colombian community asserts that popular music provides an alternative common space for imagining and enacting Colombian identity. Using an interdisciplinary analysis of popular media, music, and music video, the book teases out issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and transnational identity in the Latino/a music industry and among its most renowned rock enespañol, pop, and vallenato stars. This book provides an overview of the ongoing Colombian political and economic crisis and the dynamics of Colombian immigration to metropolitan Miami. More notably, placed in this context, the book discusses the creative work and media personas of talented Colombian artists Shakira, Andrea Echeverri of Aterciopelados, and Carlos Vives. In an examination of the transnational figures and music that illuminate the recent shifts in the meanings attached to Colombian identity both in the United States and Latin America, the book argues that music is a powerful arbitrator of memory and transnational identity.
John Franceschina
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199754298
- eISBN:
- 9780199949878
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199754298.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, Dance, Popular
After leaving RKO Hermes Pan joins Fred Astaire at Paramount to choreograph Second Chorus and Danny Dare at Republic Pictures to choreograph Hit Parade of 1941 before signing with Twentieth ...
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After leaving RKO Hermes Pan joins Fred Astaire at Paramount to choreograph Second Chorus and Danny Dare at Republic Pictures to choreograph Hit Parade of 1941 before signing with Twentieth Century-Fox to choreograph That Night in Rio with Alice Faye, Don Ameche, and Carmen Miranda. While at Fox Hermes initiates weekly luncheon discussion groups on topics ranging from religion to philosophy, one of the core participants of which, Angela (“Angie”) Blue becomes Pan’s favorite assistant and “dance-in” for films starring Betty Grable. At Grable’s request, Hermes appears onscreen as her dancing partner in several films, including Moon Over Miami, Footlight Serenade, and Coney Island. In his early days at Fox, Pan also designs dances for Sonja Henie, Rita Hayworth, and George Murphy.Less
After leaving RKO Hermes Pan joins Fred Astaire at Paramount to choreograph Second Chorus and Danny Dare at Republic Pictures to choreograph Hit Parade of 1941 before signing with Twentieth Century-Fox to choreograph That Night in Rio with Alice Faye, Don Ameche, and Carmen Miranda. While at Fox Hermes initiates weekly luncheon discussion groups on topics ranging from religion to philosophy, one of the core participants of which, Angela (“Angie”) Blue becomes Pan’s favorite assistant and “dance-in” for films starring Betty Grable. At Grable’s request, Hermes appears onscreen as her dancing partner in several films, including Moon Over Miami, Footlight Serenade, and Coney Island. In his early days at Fox, Pan also designs dances for Sonja Henie, Rita Hayworth, and George Murphy.
