Why is Jin telling us that we should learn Chinese? Is there an Asian American youth culture? How does immigration and relative generation define it? This essay addresses Americans of Asian descent1 who are roughly 18 to 25 years old: I focus on the mass-mediated popular cultures that they...

The great immigration battle of 2006 features, on one side, millions of immigrants and their supporters and, on the other, the Minutemen, some Congressmen, and Lou Dobbs. On the face of it, the battle is uneven, but then Dobbs has television on his side, and he uses it to great effect. The...

In the United States, the writing on the Vietnam War involves the highly organized and strategic forgetting of the Vietnamese people. In a highly original work that investigates the production of American cultural memory, Marita Sturken shows that in the United States, the narrative of the...

Aquella fría mañana bogotana me encaminé hacia el viejo edificio Manuel Murillo Toro, ubicado en un deteriorado sector del centro de la ciudad. Tenía mi primera entrevista y una cierta ansiedad me embargaba. Me indicaron en la portería que subiera al sexto piso. Subí por un viejo ascensor...

It was supposed to be the magic wand that took care of immigration. The North American Free Trade Agreement was to make Mexico rich and create enough employment incentives to keep its people at home. It has been anything but. More than ten years after the signing of the treaty, economic growth...

The efforts by the world’s most powerful corporations to develop global markets have spawned a substantial sociological and economic literature on how transnational markets form, what stages characterize market development, and what rules of exchange are most effective. As the authors of a...

el tema— “es un medio de poder en la lucha económica”. De la misma manera como en la guerra se necesitan “rifles y cañones”, “una bolsa fuerte” es necesaria en tiempos de paz, cuando “las naciones seguirán su lucha inexorable e inevitable por la existencia nacional y el poder...

CorreosChile es una empresa del Estado arraigada y presente en el corazón de la ciudadanía, especialmente en lugares apartados y que ven al servicio postal como un vínculo real y emocional con el resto del país. Esta empresa que nace en el siglo 18 fruto del proceso de modernización, y que...

Arab American identity is strongly rooted in the political realities and social identity constructions of the homeland. For decades, homeland attachments have shaped Arab American identity; thus, it is not surprising that Arab American arts have traditionally relied on the cultural and folkloric...

Immigration since the 1960s has transformed the nation. Today, close to one-fourth of the American population is of immigrant stock – immigrants themselves or children of immigrants. The same rough proportion holds among young Americans, aged 18 or younger. Children of immigrants and immigrant...