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Item Black Intellectual Thought on the Margins: Race, Citizenship and Knowledge Production in Brazil, Cuba and Portugal(2016-07) Flaherty-Echeverria, SattyAbstract In this project I trace the production of black intellectuals in São Paulo, Brazil, Havana, Cuba and Lisbon, Portugal. I argue that black intellectuals living in these countries used writing to forge an inclusive model of black citizenship in the precarious political, social, and economic terrains of early twentieth-century nation-building processes on both sides of the Atlantic. I analyze the discursive constructions of black civic and aesthetic subjectivity published in magazines, newspapers, bulletins and anthologies as a means to encompass the varied forms of publications available from the 1920s to 1950s. Black intellectuals who wrote in Portuguese and Spanish between 1920 and 1950—such as Arlindo Veiga dos Santos, José Correia Leite, and Lino Guedes from Brazil; Gustavo E. Urrutia from Cuba; and Mário Pinto de Andrade, Francisco José Tenreiro, Amílcar Cabral, and Viriato da Cruz from colonial Portuguese-speaking regions of Africa—remained on the peripheries of scholarship. The multi-layered marginalization of these intellectuals could be attributed to numerous historical, linguistic and cultural factors according to each context. Contemporary scholars may not be aware of their work due to the unavailability of their ephemeral production, its relatively limited dissemination, or the lack of translation of their work into English and French. The contributions of these writers are consistently left out of works on black intellectual thought of the twentieth century, which is precisely why I have chosen to highlight them in this work.Item Cuba - Sustainable horticulture crop production(2010-02-02) Mraz, KatieItem Si, Se Puede! A Teaching Packet on Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba(Institute for Social, Economic and Ecological Sustainability, 1997) Grossman, Julie; Sovell, Laurie; Wainwright, JoelThis teaching packet is intended to provide all the resources needed for an instructor, lecturer, or group organizer to facilitate a one to three-hour talk about contemporary agriculture in Cuba. The packet features a "Test Your Knowledge of Cuba" quiz, slides, text to accompany the slides, suggestions for leading exercises designed to inform others about agriculture in Cuba, and references for other materials. The packet is suitable for use in high school or college classrooms where students are interested in Cuba, agriculture, or sustainability, or for distribution among agricultural groups that want to learn about advances in organic farming elsewhere. Si, Se Puede! was compiled by three graduate students at the University of Minnesota who traveled to Cuba in March 1997 to study changes in Cuban agriculture, with support from the Institute for Social, Economic, and Ecological Sustainability.1Item Son Dos Alas: A Multimedia ethnography of hip-hop between Cuba and Puerto Rico.(2011-02-28) Riviere, MelisaFrom New York to Rio, from Nairobi to Tokyo, hip-hop, more than any other musical genre or youth culture, has permeated nations, cultures and languages worldwide. Hip-hop emerged from race and class rebellions during the New York City fiscal crises of the 1970's. It flourished under grim conditions as a vibrant expression of youthful exuberance used to overcome repression, marginality, discrimination and hardship. I concentrated my research on the globalization of hip-hop in Cuba and Puerto Rico because each island showcases a unique and thriving rap scene yet holds contrasting cultural and economic contexts. Although Cuba and Puerto Rico share common colonial histories, today they hold polarized relationships with the United States, the birthplace of hip-hop. In the case of Cuba the U.S. embargo is older than hip-hop, offering a case of complete exclusion from direct influences. In contrast, Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and thereby intimately linked to American art movements, youth genres, production resources, and market interests. This dissertation argues that youth utilize hip-hop to express their individual local struggles to unite with each other between Cuba and Puerto Rico as "world citizens" in order to belong to a global majority when they are considered local minorities. Through multimedia production, local artists globalize their repertoires despite geographic, economic or political restrictions. The innovative fieldwork methodology herein termed Ethnographic Production proposes the use of audiovisual media to create a contemporary technological "place" in which youth transcend boundaries to create virtual dialogues through their repertoires in order to overcome isolation between each other. This methodology proposes that the key site for anthropological inquiry is not necessarily to be "discovered" or "located," as traditional disciplinary expectations may assume, rather it can also be "created." As a result, the dissertation demonstrates how the experiences rappers articulated within the media modified their everyday behavior and insinuated a sense of responsibility to each other. This approach differs from traditional uses of media in anthropology used as a form of documentation or dissemination of fieldwork data. The dissertation assesses how musical repertoires transcend localized contexts between the islands and how access to audiovisual recording and reproductive technology has given youth the tools to (re)produce hip-hop. The research data, consisting of collaborative songs between rappers from each location, reveals that it is through value systems and common civil rights struggles, more so than strictly the four elements of hip-hop (rap, break dance, turntablism and visual art), that youth relate to one another and their global audiences.