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Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- So You're Interested in Politics? -- Part 1: The Horse Race -- Center (N.) -- Centrist (ADJ., N.) -- Democracy (N.) -- Filibuster (N.) -- Folks (N.) (PL.) -- Kitchen Table (N.) -- Partisan (ADJ.) -- Partisanship (N.) -- Policy (N.) -- Progressive (ADJ., N.) -- Pundit (N.) -- Part 2: Structures -- Class (N.) -- Conservative (ADJ., N.) -- Economy (N.) -- Ideology (N.) -- Inclusion (N.) -- Intersectionality (N.) -- Intersectional (ADJ.) -- Liberal (ADJ., N.) -- Materialist (ADJ., N.) -- Neoliberalism (N.) -- Neoliberal (ADJ.) -- Racism (N.) -- Racist (ADJ.)

Intro -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Accountability (n.) -- accountable, (adj.) -- Artisanal (Adj.) -- artisan (n.) -- Best practices (n. pl.) -- Brand (n., v.) -- Choice (n.) -- Coach (n., v.) -- Collaboration (n.) with Bruno Díaz -- Competency (n.) -- competencies (n. pl.) -- Conversation (n.) -- Content (n.) -- Creative (adj., n.) -- creativity (n.) -- Curator (n.) -- curate (v.) -- Data (n.) -- Design (n.) -- Disruption (n.) -- DIY [Do-it-yourself] (adj.) -- Ecosystem (n.) -- Empowerment (n.) -- empower (v.) -- Engagement (n.) -- Entrepreneur -- entrepreneurship (n.) -- Excellence (n.) -- Fail (v., n.) -- failure (n.) -- Flexible (adj.) -- flexibility (n.) -- Free (adj.) -- Grit (n.) -- Hack (n., v.) -- hacker (n.) -- Human capital (n.) -- Innovation (n.) -- Leadership (n.) -- Lean (adj., n.) -- Maker (n.) -- Market -- marketplace (n.) -- Meritocracy (n.) -- Nimble (adj.) -- Outcome (n.) -- Passion (n.) -- Pivot (n., v.) -- Resilience (n.) -- resilient (adj.) -- Robust (adj.) -- Share (v.) -- sharing (adj.) -- Smart (adj.) -- Solution (n.) -- Stakeholder (n.) -- Sustainable (adj.) -- sustainability (n.) -- Synergy (n.) -- Thought leader (n.) -- Wellness (n.) -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Back Cover.

"A Cultural History of Underdevelopment explores the changing place of Latin America in U.S. culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the recent U.S.-Cuba détente. In doing so, it uncovers the complex ways in which Americans have imagined the global geography of poverty and progress, as the hemispheric imperialism of the nineteenth century yielded to the Cold War discourse of "underdevelopment." John Patrick Leary examines representations of uneven development in Latin America across a variety of genres and media, from canonical fiction and poetry to cinema, photography, journalism, popular song, travel narratives, and development theory. For the United States, Latin America has figured variously as good neighbor and insurgent threat, as its possible future and a remnant of its past. By illuminating the conventional ways in which Americans have imagined their place in the hemisphere, the author shows how the popular image of the United States as a modern, exceptional nation has been produced by a century of encounters that travelers, writers, radicals, filmmakers, and others have had with Latin America. Drawing on authors such as James Weldon Johnson, Willa Cather, and Ernest Hemingway, Leary argues that Latin America has figured in U.S. culture not just as an exotic "other" but as the familiar reflection of the United States' own regional, racial, class, and political inequalities."--Publisher's description

This article treats the links between the 1890s literature of urban reform in the United States, which focused on the downtown "other half" of New York, and the war literature of 1898, when American troops intervened in Cuba's war of independence. The article focuses on the work of Stephen Crane, who worked as a New York police reporter, slum novelist, and Cuba war correspondent in this turbulent decade. Leary shows how, in the martial culture of the American 1890s, the rhetoric of militarism informed the practice of urban reform, while the rhetoric of urban reform informed the military campaign in Cuba. This article argues that the United States' urban underdevelopment, represented famously by the Lower East Side of Manhattan, was imaginatively displaced onto Cuba. The War of 1898 was therefore an important landmark in the creation of a Third World imaginary in the United States, when "underdevelopment" would become a distinctly Latin American condition. In the twentieth century, the gap between modernity and underdevelopment would not be found in the sprawling tenement cities, but in "other Americas" to the south, below the Mason-Dixon line and in Cuba. After 1898, Cuba, once so close to the United States as to be nearly a state in the union, now belonged to another time—indeed, almost another world.

«Modernidad líquida», «fin de los grandes relatos», «sociedad del espectáculo», derrota ideológica, declive del Estado-nación, auge del consumismo, triunfo del individuo y crisis del ciudadano… el mundo actual parece haberse transformado desde hace tiempo en un lugar incómodo para las izquierdas. Aunque se ha escrito mucho sobre la crisis «del sistema», esta tiene como correlato una inédita dificultad para imaginar otros mundos posibles. Las reconfiguraciones políticas de los últimos años ameritan un examen y una reflexión sobre el pensamiento crítico y las experiencias de cambio actuales, en un registro que preste atención a las experiencias políticas y gubernamentales así como a la producción teórica, dos esferas cada vez más distanciadas. (Nueva Soc/GIGA)