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African Studies 7

Aging 4

Anthropology 10

Caregiving 4

Caribbean Studies 6

Civil Rights 2

Cuban Studies 6, 8

Death and Dying 4

Environmental Studies 10

European History 1

Film Studies 3

Health Policy 2

Hispanic Studies 7

History 9

Holocaust Studies 1

Human Rights 1

Jewish Studies 8

Latin American Studies 3, 8, 9, 10

Literature 7

Popular Culture 3, 6

Public Health 5

Regional 5

Religion 7

Social Movements 10

Transatlantic Studies 9

Urban Planning 5

US History 2

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cover illustration:Publicity still, Carmen Miranda in The Streets of Paris, 1939.Courtesy of www.doctormacro.com.

“From Day to Day is unlike any other record of personal war experience which has yet appeared. There have been plenty of other accounts of imprisonment and concentration camps but none by a man like Mr. Nansen. Writing with no thought of publication, merely to keep a record for his wife and to express his own boiling emotions, Mr. Nansen somehow created a remarkable book. Using stolen paper and stolen time, always in fear of being caught, he described each day’s adventures with stark simplicity and intimate authority. His book, although immensely long, is a continuously engrossing narrative. It is filled with vivid, concrete details, sharp character sketches, unspeakable horrors.”

—Orville Prescott, New York Times

“Most citizens, one hears, are fed up with books about the atroci ties of the Nazi concentration camps. But this book is different from all the others this reviewer has read. True, it does not slur over the unspeakable barbarities. But it rises above them and reminds us in never-to-be-forgotten pages how noble and generous the human spirit can be in the face of terrible adversity.”

—William L. Shirer, New York Herald-Tribune

“The first two-thirds of Day after Day can only be compared with Dostoevsky’s House of the Dead; but compared with the last third of Hr. Nansen’s book The House of the Dead reads like Jane Austen. . . . It is a masterpiece. . . . The number of men who have successfully exploited the unique character of the diary as an art-form can still be counted on the fingers of one hand.”

—Times Literary Supplement

From reviews of the 1949 edition:

“This extraordinary diary by a non-Jewish victim of the Nazi regime and its collaborators is a rich historical document. Nansen’s stunning illustrations provide a pictorial narrative into the concentration camp world he endured. Superbly translated by Katherine John, his text renders his experience in clear, muscular prose. We see through his eyes and imagine what he describes. We follow him, day by day, as his diary traverses three and a half years—an eternity at that time—and moves with him from the Norwegian camp system, the Norwegian regime, and occupied Norway to his perspective on the German camp of Sachsenhausen, the Nazi regime in Germany, and the final disintegration of the Third Reich. “Timothy Boyce’s introduction frames the diary beautifully, setting the diary years into the larger picture of Nansen’s life with just the right bal-ance between the private and the public. And his extensive editorial notes provide guideposts along the way.”

—Debórah Dwork, Rose Professor of Holocaust History, Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and author of Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933–1946

Above right: Sketch by Odd Nansen. “One of the death gangs on the way to the place of execution, conducted by the ‘AA General.’ ”

Below: Sketch by Odd Nansen. “Divine service behind the barbed wire at Veidal.”

“This is one of the most searing contemporaneous accounts of the Holocaust, but also one of the best written of the great documents of World War II. It is a profound indictment of evil, a daily diary of torment and torture, yet also somehow a deeply moving love letter. It should find a place on the bookshelf of every home, be taught in every school, made into a movie, and feted for what it says about man’s capacity for humanity in the face of satanic loathsomeness. Mr. Nansen’s decency and courage in the most vicious of circumstances shines through on every page; he personifies the civilization for which the Allies fought.” —Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War; Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941–1945; and Napoleon: A Life

“A long-forgotten masterpiece. In his secret diary, written inside the Nazi camps, the Norwegian prisoner Odd Nansen paints a deeply affecting picture of everyday terror, sketching the inmates’ life and death with exceptional clarity and compassion. Rarely has the inhumanity of the camps been captured with such humanity. An invaluable document for anyone interested in the Nazi camps.” —Nikolaus Wachsmann, author of KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

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n 1942 Norwegian Odd Nansen was arrested by the Nazis, and he spent the remainder of World War II in concentra-tion camps—Grini in Oslo, Veidal above the Arctic Circle, and Sachsenhausen in Germany. For three and a half years, Nansen kept a secret diary on tissue-paper- thin pages later smuggled out by various means, including inside the prisoners’ hollowed- out breadboards.

Unlike writers of retrospective Holo-caust memoirs, Nansen recorded the mun-dane and horrific details of camp life as they happened, “from day to day.” With an unsparing eye, Nansen described the casual brutality and random terror that was the fate of a camp prisoner. His entries reveal his constantly frustrated hopes for an early end to the war, his longing for his wife and children, his horror at the especially barbaric treatment reserved for Jews, and his disgust at the anti-Semitism of some of his fellow Norwegians. Nansen often con-fronted his German jailors with unusual outspokenness and sometimes with a sense of humor and absurdity that was not appreciated by his captors.

After the Putnam’s edition received rave reviews in 1949, the book fell into obscurity. In 1956, in response to a poll about the “most undeservedly neglected” book of the preceding quarter-century, Carl Sandburg singled out From Day to Day, calling it “an epic narrative,” which

A dramatic, acutely observed account of three and a half years of concentration camp life and death as they unfolded

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took “its place among the great affirma-tions of the power of the human spirit to rise above terror, torture, and death.” Indeed, Nansen witnessed all the horrors of the camps, yet still saw hope for the future. He sought reconciliation with the German people, even donating the proceeds of the German edition of his book to German refugee relief work. Nansen was following in the footsteps of his father, Fridtjof, an Arctic explorer and humanitarian who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his work on behalf of World War I refu-gees. (Fridtjof also created the “Nansen passport” for stateless persons.)

This new edition, the first in over sixty- five years, contains extensive annotations and new diary selections never before translated into English. Forty sketches of camp life and death by Nansen, an architect and talented draftsman, provide a sense of immediacy and acute observation matched by the diary entries. The preface is written by Thomas Buergenthal, who was “Tommy,” the ten-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz Death March, whom Nansen met at Sachsenhausen and saved using his extra food rations. Buergenthal, who later served as a judge on the International Court of Justice at The Hague, is a recipient of the 2015 Elie Wiesel Award from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Odd Nansen, a Norwegian architect, organized relief efforts for Jews and other refugees beginning in 1936 and was imprisoned by the Nazis in a series of concentration camps. After the war, he remained active in humanitarian work until his death in 1973.

Timothy J. Boyce practiced law for thirty-five years, most recently as the managing partner of the Charlotte office of Dechert LLP, an international law firm.

Self-portrait of Odd Nansen in prison.

demanded an end to federal subsidization of discrimination in the form of Medicare payments to hospitals that embraced the “separate but equal” creed that shaped American life during the Jim Crow era. Faced with this pressure, the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations tried to play a cautious chess game, but that game led to perhaps the biggest gamble in the his-tory of domestic policy. Leaders secretly recruited volunteer federal employees to serve as inspectors, and an invisible army of hospital workers and civil rights activists to work as agents, making it impossible for hospitals to get Medicare dollars with mere paper compliance. These triumphs did not come without casualties, yet the story offers lessons and hope for realizing this transformational dream.

On the 50th anniversary of the implementation of Medicare, a behind-the-scenes account of the role of civil rights activists

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n less than four months, beginning with a staff of five, an obscure office buried deep within the federal bureau-cracy transformed the nation’s hospitals from our most racially and economically segregated institutions into our most inte-grated. These powerful private institutions, which had for a half century selectively served people on the basis of race and wealth, began equally caring for all on the basis of need.

The book draws the reader into the struggles of the unsung heroes of the transformation, black medical leaders whose stubborn courage helped shape the larger civil rights movement. They

The Power to HealCivil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America’s Health Care Systemdavid BarTON smiTh

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david Barton smith, Professor Emeritus in Health Administration at Temple University,

is the author of Reinventing Care: Assisted Living in New York City (also published by

Vanderbilt University Press) and Health Care Divided: Race and Healing a Nation. He is

assisting in the production of a companion documentary supported by the National

Endowment for the Humanities.

“David Barton Smith is a superb storyteller, and in The Power to Heal he has quite a story to tell. It is the story of the racism at the foundations of the American health care system and of the men and women who dedicated—and sometimes gave—their lives to fight it. In particular, Smith tells how the implementation of Medicare became the most successful desegregation program in American history. While racial disparities persist in American health care, that they are now understood as a problem rather than the natural order of things is attributable to the heroic efforts he describes.” —Timothy Jost, Emeritus Professor, Washington and Lee University School of Law

This book is the recipient of the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the

best book in the area of medicine.

“The Power to Heal brings to life the neglected history of one of the greatest victories of the civil rights struggles—the successful confrontation with the institutional racism and racial segregation long entrenched in America’s hospitals, north as well as south, that had relegated African American patients to basement wards and inferior treatment. David Barton Smith’s brilliant account reads like a political thriller, detailing the ways in which a small group of determined activists for social justice, working quietly in the halls of government, used the leverage of new social programs—Medicare and Medicaid—to accomplish a great social change. This story speaks to the future as well as the past.” —H. Jack Geiger, MD, Logan Professor Emeritus of Community Medicine, City University of New York Medical School


The brilliant life of the Brazilian Bombshell

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Kathryn Bishop-sanchez is a professor of Portuguese and gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is coeditor of Performing Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Arts.

armen Miranda got knocked down and kept going. Filming an appear- ance on The Jimmy Durante Show on August 4, 1955, the “ambassadress of samba” suddenly took a knee during a dance number, clearly in distress. Durante covered without missing a beat, and Miranda was back on her feet in a matter of moments to continue with what she did best: performing. By the next morning, she was dead from heart failure at age 46.

This final performance in many ways exemplified the power of Carmen Miranda. The actress, singer, and dancer pursued a relentless mission to demonstrate the provocative theatrical force of her cultural roots in Brazil. Armed with bare-midriff dresses, platform shoes, and her iconic fruit-basket headdresses, Miranda stole the show in films like That Night in Rio and

Creating Carmen MirandaSex, Camp, and Transnational StardomKaThryN BishOP-saNchez

The Gang’s All Here. For American film audiences, her life was an example of the exoticism of a mysterious, sensual South America. For Brazilian and Latin Ameri-can audiences, she was an icon. For the gay community, she became a work of art personified and a symbol of courage and charisma.

In Creating Carmen Miranda, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez takes the reader through the myriad methods Miranda consciously used to shape her performance of race, gender, and camp culture, all to further her journey down the road to becoming a legend.

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“Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez has written a veritable tour de force that will stand as the definitive study of Carmen Miranda for many years to come.” —Christopher Dunn, author of Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

How to care for an aging parent and how to handle this rite of passage in our own lives

aring for Red is Mindy Fried’s moving and colorful account of caring for her ninety-seven-year-old father, Manny—an actor, writer, and labor organizer—in the final year of his life. This memoir chronicles the actions of two sisters as they discover concentric circles of support for their father and attempt to provide him with an experience of “engaged aging” in an assisted living facility.

The story is also that of a daughter of a powerful and outspoken man who took risks throughout his life and whose politi-cal beliefs had an enduring impact on his

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mindy Fried, a sociologist, is Co-Principal of Arbor Consulting

Partners. She is the author of Taking Time: Parental Leave Policy

and Corporate Culture.

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“Raw and real. Anyone who has experienced caregiving can appreciate Mindy Fried’s story. I was reminded of Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant? Both books help caregivers to feel less alone and to put the life course in perspective, and both Fried and Chast offer helpful advice along the way.” —Meika Loe, author of Aging Our Way: Lessons for Living from 85 and Beyond and The Rise of Viagra: How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America

family. (After Manny was called before the House Un-American Activities Commit-tee, he was blackballed and his family was shunned.)

As an actor, Manny was affiliated with Elia Kazan’s Group Theatre and the Federal Theatre Project. He did Shakespeare, Chek-hov, and Ibsen, and played everything from the tormented father in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons to an infant in a baby carriage in Thornton Wilder’s Infancy, from the Rabbi in Fiddler on the Roof to—poignantly for this book—the role of Morrie in Tuesdays with Morrie.

As she devotes herself to caring for her dying father, Mindy grapples anew with the complexity of their relationship. She ques-tions whether she can be there for him and how to assert her own voice as her father’s caregiver in his last days.

“Mindy Fried has written a moving and insightful memoir about being a long-distance caregiver (with her sister) for her ninety-seven-year-old father in the last year of his life in an assisted living facility in Buffalo, New York. She has also captured the meaning of his life as a union activist, playwright, actor, late-life student, and teacher. Fried’s book offers compelling testimony on behalf of her adored but difficult father. As his caregiver she honored him as a father, and with her memoir, as a seeker for justice.” —Carol Levine, Director, Families and Health Care Project, United Hospital Fund, and editor of Living in the Land of Limbo: Fiction and Poetry about Family Caregiving


he shape we give to our city in turn shapes us. The form that Americans began to give to their cities and suburbs in the years following World War II has molded an increasingly underactive, over-weight population subject to a variety of preventable diseases, as well as an environ-ment with degraded air and water quality. Shaping the Healthy Community explores the relationships between the built envi-ronment and public health and presents an action plan for a healthier city.

The book analyzes Nashville using the “transect,” an urban planning model central to the New Urbanist and smart growth movements. By considering the seven “transect zones”—natural, rural, suburban, urban, downtown, centers, and districts—the book provides a diagnosis of the health-promoting and health-defeating aspects of each.

Strategies tailored to each zone focus on six built environment factors that im-pact health: neighborhood design and

Diagnosing the built environment for healthy living

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development, transportation, walkability and pedestrian safety, food resources, housing, and open space and parks. Indi-vidual chapters include case studies of spe-cific neighborhoods, contributions by ex-perts, infographics, site photographs, and detailed before-and-after visualizations.

Shaping the Healthy Community pre-sents real world facts, policy recommenda-tions, and design strategies to enable health and planning professionals, developers and designers, educators and community orga-nizations to build places in which healthy practices can be part of daily life.

Like The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City, this book is a collaboration of the Nashville Civic Design Center, Vanderbilt University Creative Services, and Vanderbilt University Press.

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gary gaston, Director of the Nashville Civic Design Center, is a lecturer with the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design. He was co-author of Moving Tennessee Forward: Models for Connecting Communities and executive producer of the 2012 NEA-funded documentary film Design Your Neighborhood.

christine Kreyling is the author of The Plan of Nashville and co-author of Classical Nashville, both published by Vanderbilt University Press. As the architecture and urban planning critic for the Nashville Scene, she received three awards from the American Planning Association for the best writing in the nation. Kreyling was one of the founders of the Nashville Urban Design Forum and the Nashville Civic Design Center.

“Nashville, the city that has shaped our popular culture and made it global, now stands to help us rethink our built environment. Though this book’s focus is on one unique American city, its findings provide metropolitan cultures everywhere with a blueprint for healthy living. With their thorough research and analysis, the authors point the way to achieving the human- and Earth-centered places our century is ready to embrace.” —Susan S. Szenasy, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Metropolis Magazine

“Nashville is already a national leader in the health care industry, but I want nothing less than for us to be a national leader in health. As a physician and a policymaker, my mantra has become ‘make the healthy choice the easy choice.’ Shaping the Healthy Community is about just that.” —from the Preface by Senator William H. Frist, MD

“Twenty-first-century cities are reinventing themselves, and the best and brightest want to live in lively, healthy places. Cities must tell their stories to the world, as Nashville has done, beautifully.” —Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH, was for nine years Director of the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health


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Discovering popular culture around the world, and bringing it back to Cuba

wenty-first-century Cuba is a cultural stew. Tommy Hilfiger and socialism. Nike products and poverty in Africa. The New York Yankees and the meaning of “blackness.” The quest for American consumer goods and the struggle in Africa for political and cultural independence inform the daily life of Cubans at every cultural level, as anthropologist Paul Ryer argues in Beyond Cuban Waters. Focusing on the everyday world of ordinary Cubans, this book examines Cuban understand-ings of the world and of Cuba’s place in it, especially as illuminated by two contrast-ing notions: “La Yuma,” a distinctly Cuban concept of the American experience, and

Beyond Cuban WatersÁfrica, La Yuma, and the Island’s Global ImaginationPau l r y e r

“África,” the ideological understanding of that continent’s experience. Ryer takes us into the homes of Cuban families, out to the streets and nightlife of bustling cities, and on boat journeys that reach beyond the typical destinations, all to better under-stand the nature of the cultural life of a nation.

This pursuit of Western status symbols represents a uniquely Cuban experience, set apart from other cultures pursuing the same things. In the Cuban case, this rep-resents neither an acceptance nor rejection of the American cultural influence, but rather a co-opting or “Yumanizing” of these influences.

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Paul ryer is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside.

“Zeroing in on discourses of race in Cuba, Ryer counterposes two ‘imagined geographies’: the ‘geography of management’ of the Cuban state, which has insisted on an absence of racial hierarchies and racism, and the ‘geography of desire’ in everyday conversations about racial and national identity and the beckoning yet forbidden capitalist world beyond the island. Ryer is an endlessly fascinating and sure-footed guide to the interplay of the global and local in Cuba.” —David Luis-Brown, author of Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States


eresa de Santo Domingo, born with the name Chicaba, was a slave captured in the territory known to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Spanish and Portu-guese navigators and slave traffickers as La Mina Baja del Oro, the part of West Africa that extends through present-day eastern Ghana, Togo, Benin, and western Nigeria. Upon the death of her Spanish master, she was freed to enter a convent. The Dominicans of La Penitencia in Salamanca accepted her after she had been rejected by several other monasteries because of her skin color. Even in her own religious community, race put her at a disadvantage in the highly stratified social hierarchy of monastic houses of the era. Her life story is known to us through a document entitled Compendio de la Vida Ejemplar

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From slavery to Veneration, the life story of an eighteenth-century African nun

Black Bride of ChristChicaba, an African Nun in Eighteenth-Century Spainedited, translated, and with an introduction by sue e. hOuchiNs and BalTasar Fra-mOliNerO

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de la Venerable Madre Sor Teresa Juliana de Santo Domingo, which is the founda-tional documentary evidence in the case for beatification of this nun, and as such it is the most significant and comprehensive source of information about her.

This volume, the first English transla-tion of the Compendio, is a hagiography, an example of a biographical genre that recounts the lives and describes the spiri-tual practices of holy people—saints offi-cially canonized by the Church, informally recognized by local devotees, or respected ecclesiastical leaders. The effort to have Chicaba canonized continues today, as Fra-Molinero and Houchins explore in their introduction to the volume.

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sue e. houchins is Associate Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies at Bates College and editor of Spiritual Narratives.

Baltasar Fra-molinero is Professor of Latin American Studies at Bates College.

First and last pages of the Oración fúnebre, published soon after Sor teresa Chicaba’s funeral in 1749. Chicaba’s epitaph is framed on the last page. (Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid)


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The Merchant of HavanaThe Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist ArchivesTePheN silversTeiN

A need to vilify in an age of uncertainty and the rise of anti-Semitism in Cuba

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s Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, an epochal realignment of the social order occurred. In this period of change, two seemingly disparate, yet nevertheless intertwined, ideological forces appeared: anti-Semitism and abolition-ism. As the antislavery movement became organized in Cuba, the argument grew that Jews participated in the African slave trade and in New World slavery, and that

this participation gave Jews extraordinary influence in the new Cuban economy and culture. What was remarkable about this anti-Semitism was the decidedly small Jewish population on the island in this era. This form of anti-Semitism, Silverstein reveals, sprang almost exclusively from mythological beliefs.

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“Silverstein puts a new twist to the discussion about slavery and the rise of capitalism by looking at the key role debt had in transforming the upper echelons of Cuban society, and the reason why the image of Shylock became so rooted in their imaginary.” —Ariana Huberman, author of Gauchos and Foreigners: Glossing Culture and Identity in the Argentine Countryside

stephen silverstein is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Baylor University.

“[Silverstein] argues convincingly that we can neither fully understand Afro-Cuban racial identities nor the mechanism of racial hierarchies in Cuba unless we also comprehend the role of the merchant class, foreign-born bourgeoisie, and the lexicon of Jewish usury in nineteenth-century Cuba.” —Amelia Weinreb, author of Cuba in the Shadow of Change: Daily Life in the Twilight of the Revolution


The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the AmericasNew Nations and a Transatlantic Discourse of Empireelise BarTOsiK-vÉlez

hy is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer com-missioned by Spain who never set foot on what would become the nation’s mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in 1819 name a new independent republic “Colombia,” after Columbus, the first rep-resentative of the empire from which they had recently broken free? These are only two of the introductory questions explored in The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas, a fundamental recasting of Columbus as an eminently powerful tool in imperial constructs.

Bartosik-Vélez seeks to explain the meaning of Christopher Columbus throughout the so-called New World, first in the British American colonies and the United States, as well as in Spanish

America, during the eighteenth and nine-teenth centuries. She argues that during the pre- and post-revolutionary periods, New World societies commonly imagined themselves as legitimate and powerful independent political entities by compar-ing themselves to the classical empires of Greece and Rome. Columbus, who had been construed as a figure of empire for centuries, fit perfectly into that framework. By adopting him as a national symbol, New World nationalists appeal to Old World notions of empire.

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“[T]his book should be of interest to many readers. The fact that it is tightly argued and pleasantly written will surely enhance its appeal.” —Hispanic American Historical Review

elise Bartosik-vélez is Associate Professor of Spanish at Dickinson College.

“[Bartosik-Vélez] shows how the use of apocalyptic and prophetic language, and specifically Columbus’s self-portrayal as a martyr as he fell from favor, formed the basis for a rhetorical distancing from the Spanish Empire upon which later nationalist renditions would depend.” —Kristine Ibsen, author of Maximilian, Mexico, and the Invention of Empire

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Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTADevelopment, Politics, and Participation on the US-Mexico Borders u z a N N e s i m O N

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ustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA provides the only book- length study of the impact on residents of the US-Mexico border of NAFTA’s Environmental and Labor Side Accords, which required each state to enforce labor and environmental regulations. Through field research in Matamoros, Tamauli-pas, anthropologist Suzanne Simon tests the premise that the side accords would encourage Mexican grassroots democrati-zation. The effectiveness of the side accords was tied to transparency and accountability and practically bound to opportunities for Mexican border populations to participate in the side accord petitioning and civil so-ciety input mechanisms. Simon conducted sixteen months of fieldwork with both a group of environmental activists and a group of those fighting for labor justice in Mexico. Both of these groups became enmeshed in the types of cross-border advocacy networks and coalition building efforts that are typical of the NAFTA era.

Although the key to the side accords’ anticipated success lay in their ostensibly generous encouragement of a participa-tory politics and sustainable development opportunities, Sustaining the Borderlands reveals that the Mexican border popula-tions for which they were largely created are effectively excluded from participating due to the ongoing online, territorial, class, and cultural barriers that shape the borderlands. Rather than experiencing

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S the side accords and their companion institutions as transparent and accessible, residents experienced them as opaque and indecipherable. Simon concludes that the side accords have failed to deliver on their promise of bringing democracy to Mexico because practical mechanisms that would ensure their effective implementation were never put in place.

NAFTA took effect at a time when Mexico was undergoing a democratic transition. The treaty was supposed to encourage this transition and improve environmental and labor conditions on the US-Mexico border. This book demon-strates that, twenty years later, the promises of NAFTA have not come to pass.“For applied and practicing anthropologists and

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suzanne simon is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Florida.

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