Alejandra Bronfman: 3 books
Isles of Noise
Sonic Media in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
In this media history of the Caribbean, Alejandra Bronfman traces how technology, culture, and politics developed in a region that was "wired" earlier and more widely than many other parts of the Americas. Haiti, Cuba, and Jamaica acquired radio and broadcasting in the early stages of the global expansion...
Measures of Equality
Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In the years following Cuba's independence, nationalists aimed to transcend racial categories in order to create a unified polity, yet racial and cultural heterogeneity posed continual challenges to these liberal notions of citizenship. Alejandra Bronfman traces the formation of Cuba's multiracial...
On the Move
The Caribbean since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The Caribbean stands out in the popular imagination as a 'place without history', a place which has somehow eluded modernity. Haiti is envisioned as being trapped in an endless cycle of violence and instability, Cuba as a 1950s time warp, Jamaicans as ganja-smoking Rastafarians, while numerous pristine,...