Immigration and the Imagined Community in Europe and the United States

2008 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Citrin ◽  
John Sides
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Imagined Community

A stranger in my own home: Prolonged travel and the (re)negotiation of Otavalo identity in Carlos Arcos Cabrera’s Memorias de Andrés Chiliquinga (‘Memories of Andrés Chiliquinga’) (2013)

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Megan O’Neil
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
The World ◽  
Globalized World

As one of Ecuador’s largest indigenous groups, Otavalos have become unique in their successful marketing of cultural products both nationally and internationally. The Otavalo diaspora has led to sizeable communities settling not only in larger cities within Ecuador, but around the world. Travel, especially to Europe and the United States, is now a rite of passage for young Otavalos, and these travelling merchants spread their heritage through the sale of products, from clothing and fabrics, to music and handicrafts. In turn, many spend a significant portion of the year (and their life) detached from the Otavalo community, moving through spaces in which they are labelled as ‘other’ to ones in which they are exclusive members of an ‘imagined community’. With a focus on Carlos Arcos Cabrera's 2013 novel Memorias de Andrés Chiliquinga (‘Memories of Andrés Chiliquinga’), this article explores the effects of prolonged travel on indigenous identity, and the ways in which the young Otavalos today are facing traditional and Eurocentric stereotypes in order to (re)negotiate what it means to be indigenous in a globalized world.

Introduction: “Who Karkalay?”

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-28
Author(s):  
Gillian Richards-Greaves
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South America ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
African Retention

This chapter examines the traditional (wedding-based) kweh-kweh as an African retention or African continuity that developed among enslaved Africans in Guyana, South America. It also demonstrates the ways that traditional kweh-kweh indexes indigenous African rites of passage, such as Ïgba Nkwü, a wine-carrying ceremony practiced by the Igbos of Nigeria. Moreover, this chapter explores how African-Guyanese migration to the United States necessitated the reenactment of the traditional kweh-kweh, and thus, an invention of tradition in the form of Come to My Kwe-Kwe, also known as Kwe-Kwe Nite. This chapter further demonstrates how the African-Guyanese diaspora in the United States (African-Guyanese-Americans) is comprised of smaller interconnected factions or diasporas, such as the migrated diaspora, procreated diaspora, and affinal diaspora. It also demonstrates how the celebration of Come to My Kwe-Kwe serves to transition the African-Guyanese-American community from an imagined community to a tangible one that is uniquely African, Guyanese, and American.

The Patriots' Pushkin

Slavic Review ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 407-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Slater
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Correct Interpretation ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
White Males ◽  
Shared Culture ◽  
The 1960S

A nation's shared culture reflects its status as an "imagined community."1 Different sections of the imagined community, however, have their own ideas about what the shared culture should include and what ought to be excluded from it, and this incessant debate over the cultural canon affects the nation's sense of identity. The rise of the civil rights movement and feminism in the United States in the 1960s, for example, challenged the dominance of "dead white males" in the American literary canon. Political as much as aesthetic considerations, then, dictate what the canon of works that constitute any shared culture should include. Similarly, political circumstances often determine the "correct" interpretation of these works.

scholarly journals Om toleran Om: four Indonesian reflections on digital heterosexism

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
Tom Boellstorff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Culture Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Continuity And Discontinuity

Beginning in January 2016, an unprecedented series of anti-LGBT events took place in Indonesia, the fourth most populous nation (after China, India, and the United States) and home to more Muslims than any other country. These events were notable for the pivotal role of digital media in their articulation and dissemination. In this article, I develop the notions of ‘digital heterosexism’ and ‘digital exclusionary populism’ to reflect on how these anti-LGBT events relate to earlier dynamics of oppression in the archipelago, and their possible consequences for Indonesia’s future. I focus on the shifting implications of media for subjectivity, community, and inequality – in the country that was a model for the notion of ‘imagined community’. Through these reflections, I seek to illuminate continuity and discontinuity with regard to media and culture change.

scholarly journals “Latinidad Is Cancelled”

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-79
Author(s):  
Tatiana Flores
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Racial Mixture ◽  
Insight Into

Adopting a hemispheric perspective, this essay problematizes the construct of latinidad by foregrounding how it reproduces Black erasure. I argue that “Latin America,” rather than being a geographical designator, is an imagined community that is Eurocentric to the degree that its conceptual boundaries exclude African diaspora spaces. I then turn to understandings of whiteness across borders, contrasting perceptions of racial mixture in the United States and the Hispanophone Americas. Lastly, I examine works by (Afro-)Latinx artists whose nuanced views on race demonstrate the potential of visual representation to provide insight into this complex topic beyond the black-white binary.

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

Silence of the Land: On the Historical Irrelevance of Territory to Congressional Districting and Political Representation in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Rehfeld
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
Congressional District ◽  
Congressional Districts ◽  
Communities Of Interest

Every ten years, the United States “constructs” itself politically. On a decennial basis, U.S. Congressional districts are quite literally drawn, physically constructing political representation in the House of Representatives on the basis of where one lives. Why does the United States do it this way? What justifies domicile as the sole criteria of constituency construction? These are the questions raised in this article. Contrary to many contemporary understandings of representation at the founding, I argue that there were no principled reasons for using domicile as the method of organizing for political representation. Even in 1787, the Congressional district was expected to be far too large to map onto existing communities of interest. Instead, territory should be understood as forming a habit of mind for the founders, even while it was necessary to achieve other democratic aims of representative government.

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