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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780029703321

Titolo

Emerging market democracies : East Asia and Latin America / / editor, Laurence Whitehead

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

0-8018-7780-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 226 pages) : color illustrations

Collana

A Journal of democracy book

Altri autori (Persone)

WhiteheadLaurence

Disciplina

320.95

Soggetti

Democratization - East Asia

Democratization - Latin America

East Asia Economic policy

Latin America Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 STIRRINGS OF MUTUAL RECOGNITION; 2 THE POLITICS OF THE ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS; 3 STATE-BUSINESS RELATIONS IN SOUTH KOREA AND TAIWAN; 4 STATE-BUSINESS RELATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA; 5 CAPITAL MOBILITY AND DEMOCRATIC STABILITY; 6 DIMENSIONS OF DEVELOPMENT; 7 ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS OF CAPITALISM; 8 DOES EDUCATION PROMOTE GROWTH AND DEMOCRACY?; 9 THE HAZARDS OF CONVERGENCE; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The end of the Cold War, the "third wave" of democratization, and economic globalization have presented the newly industrialized countries of East Asia and the liberal democracies of Latin America with increasingly similar international opportunities and constraints. During the 1980s, Latin America made great strides in democratization, while East Asia led the world in economic growth. Are the two regions now converging toward a model that combines economic and political liberalization? Many developments in both regions indicate that this is a serious possibility. Although significant countertrends do exist, there is now increased scope for mutual support and encouragement among aspiring democratic forces both within and between these two regions.



This book examines these interrelated issues, paying special attention to the effects of the East Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 and its subsequent impact on Latin America.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789019303321

Autore

Echeverría Darius V. <1974->

Titolo

Aztlán Arizona : Mexican American educational empowerment, 1968-1978 / / Darius V. Echeverría

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8165-9897-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Classificazione

HIS036130SOC044000

Disciplina

371.829/68073

Soggetti

Mexican Americans - Education - Arizona - History - 20th century

Mexican Americans - Arizona - Politics and government - 20th century

Chicano movement - Arizona

Educational change - Arizona - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Occupied Arizona: Mexican Americans and the Parameters of a Pedestrian People""; ""2. A Measure of the Marginalized Mexican American: A Scholastic Survey of Spanish-Surnamed Strangers""; ""3. Bias, Boycotts, and Battling Barriers Mexican Americans in Public Schools""; ""4. Activists of Academia: Students, Scholars, and Staffers at Arizona State University""; ""5. The Promise and Peril of Protests: Undergraduates and Underrepresentation at the University of Arizona""

""6. A Part, Yet Apart: (Re) Arranging Academic Arizona from Hocus-Pocus to Horne"" ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

" Aztlán Arizona is a history of the Chicano Movement in Arizona in the 1960's and 1970's. Focusing on community and student activism in Phoenix and Tucson, Darius V. Echeverría ties the Arizona events to the larger Chicano and civil rights movements against the backdrop of



broad societal shifts that occurred throughout the country. Arizona's unique role in the movement came from its (public) schools, which were the primary source of Chicano activism against the inequities in the judicial, social, economic, medical, political, and educational arenas.  The word Aztlán, originally meaning the legendary ancestral home of the Nahua peoples of Mesoamerica, was adopted as a symbol of independence by Chicano/a activists during the movement of the 1960's and 1970's.  In an era when poverty, prejudice, and considerable oppositional forces blighted the lives of roughly one-fifth of Arizonans, the author argues that understanding those societal realities is essential to defining the rise and power of the Chicano Movement.  The book illustrates how Mexican American communities fostered a togetherness that ultimately modified larger Arizona society by revamping the educational history of the region. The concluding chapter outlines key Mexican American individuals and organizations that became politically active in order to address Chicano educational concerns. This Chicano unity, reflected in student, parent, and community leadership organizations, helped break barriers, dispel the Mexican American inferiority concept, and create educational change that benefited all Arizonans.  No other scholar has examined the emergence of Chicano Movement politics and its related school reform efforts in Arizona. Echevarria's thorough research, rich in scope and interpretation, is coupled with detailed and exact endnotes. The book helps readers understand the issues surrounding the Chicano Movement educational reform and ethnic identity. Equally important, the author shows how residual effects of these dynamics are still pertinent today in places such as Tucson"--