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

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)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

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

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Children and politics.
Children > Latin America > Social conditions.
Cultural diplomacy > Latin America.
Pan-Americanism.

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Call Number: HQ792.L3

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.