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This book tells the incredible true story of Ranulfo Juárez, a Mexican immigrant. After working for years in the fields of Oregon and becoming a U.S. citizen, Ranulfo started making plans to buy a small bakery in 2005. But not knowing if the economy would hold steady, Ranulfo examined his dreams every morning in search of secret clues foretelling insight and a successful bakery—or homelessness. Ranulfo also enlisted author Peter Wogan, a white anthropology professor with a penchant for self-doubt, as his confidante and sidekick in this quest. Readers won’t know until the end whether Ranulfo became another innocent victim of the Financial Crisis of 2008, but, throughout, they will see Ranulfo and Peter confront naysayers and cheats, as well as their own differences and fears. Like Don Quixote, this book is comical, subversive, and inspirational. .

Social sciences. --- Ethnology. --- Ethnology --- Ethnography. --- Social Sciences. --- Social Anthropology. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- Latino Culture. --- Latin America. --- Mexican Americans --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology-Latin America. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Ethnology—Latin America.

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This book presents a reconfiguration of the concepts of community in Latin countries as well as the community quality of life and well-being of different groups: children, young people, older adults, migrants. The traditional concept of community has changed together with the way people participate in community spaces. Community nowadays is more than a geographic concentration; it is related to social support, inter-subjectivity, participation, consensus, common beliefs, joint effort aiming at a major objective, and intense and extensive relationships. This volume presents unique experiences about culture, social development, health, water, armed conflicts, the digital media, and sports within communities, written by authors from Latin countries. this volume is a valuable resource for researchers, students and policy makers in quality of life studies.

Qualitative methods in social research --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- sociaal werk --- etnologie --- sociologie --- cultuur --- levenskwaliteit --- Latin America --- Quality of life. --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- Social service. --- Quality of Life Research. --- Latino Culture. --- Social Work and Community Development.

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This book considers how ideas about blackness travel across the Americas via migration, and media, cultural, and political exchanges. It examines African-descended populations in Latin America and Afro-Latin@s in the United States in order to explore questions of black identity and representation, transnationalism, and diaspora. Afro-Latin@s in Movement explores diverse topics—from popular music to sports to political organizing—to consider the ways that blackness is imagined, embodied, and understood across the Americas. .

Globalization. --- Blacks --- Politics and culture --- Migration --- Culture --- Culture and politics --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Political aspects --- Ethnology-Latin America. --- Ethnology-Africa. --- Latin American Culture. --- African Culture. --- Latino Culture. --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- Ethnology—Africa. --- Black people --- African Americans --- South Americans --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Africans --- Black persons --- Social aspects. --- Migration.

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Historically, cinema in the Americas has been signed by a state of precariousness. Notwithstanding the growing accessibility to video and digital technologies, access to the material means of film production is still limited, affecting the spheres of production, distribution, and reception. Equally, questions about the precarious can be traced in cultural and archival policies, film legislations, as well as in thematic and aesthetic choices. While conventional definitions of the precarious have been associated with notions of scarcity and insecurity, this volume looks at precariousness from a non-monolithic angle, exploring its productivity and potential for original, critical approaches, with the aim of providing new readings to the variedly rich and complex cinemas of the Americas.

Culture --- Cultural studies --- Study and teaching. --- Motion pictures, American. --- Motion pictures-United States. --- Ethnology-Latin America. --- United States-Study and teaching. --- Latin American Cinema and TV. --- American Cinema and TV. --- Latin American Culture. --- American Culture. --- Latino Culture. --- American motion pictures --- Moving-pictures, American --- Foreign films --- Motion pictures—United States. --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- United States—Study and teaching.

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“Sophia Beal leads readers through the complex debates on Brasília, which enrich and inform her sensitive and wonderfully inspired readings of art. The city we find here—though certainly not a modernist utopia—is, like the book itself, anything but unsurprising—a reminder that in the history of urban planning, the unintended happens often. Impressively-researched, fresh, and captivating, this book is a brilliant achievement and will appeal to experts and first-time travelers alike.” --Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University “This book is an exemplary piece of research, and singular in that Brasília’s cultural production has not previously been systematically examined. Beal’s study is notable for paying close attention to the importance of popular culture in providing trenchant sociocultural assessments. Her secure grasp of the scope of her material and the quality of her analyses confirm her emerging stature as a major voice in contemporary Brazilian cultural studies.” --David William Foster, Regents’ Professor of Portuguese and Spanish, Arizona State University People from outside of Brasília often dismiss Brazil’s capital as a cultural wasteland. However, as The Art of Brasília argues, that reputation is outdated. Brasília’s contemporary artists are transforming how people think about the city and how they use its public spaces. These twenty-first-century artists are recasting Brasília as a vibrant city of the arts in which cultural production affirms the creative right to the city of marginalized populations. Brasília’s initial 1960s art was state-sanctioned, carried out mainly by privileged, white men. In contrast, the capital’s contemporary art is marked by its diversity, challenging norms about the types of art that can symbolize the city. This book analyzes prose, poetry, film, cultural journalism, music, photography, graffiti, street theater, and street dance that demystify the capital’s inequities and imagine alternative ways of inhabiting the city. Sophia Beal is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Brazil under Construction: Fiction and Public Works. .

Art --- Art, Brazilian --- Brazilian art --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- Arts. --- Latin American Culture. --- Latino Culture. --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Humanities --- Arts, Primitive