Good Neighbor Empires : Children and Cultural Capital in the Americas /

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...

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Main Author: Albarrán, Elena Jackson (Author)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Critical Latin America ; 4.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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505 0 |t 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. 
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