• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• A Note about Mine Names
• Introduction
• 1. Underground Bodies: Extraction, Exposure, and Dissection
• 2. The Home: Drought, Wells, and Bodies of Water
• 3. The City: The Mine and the Body
• 4. The Body as Land: Water, Mining, and the Revolution
• 5. The Body as Nation: Silicosis-Tuberculosis, Unions, and Revolutionary Death
• Conclusion: Toxic Legacies
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index .
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In Mexico environmental struggles have been fought since the nineteenth century in such places as Zacatecas, where United States and European mining interests have come into open conflict with rural and city residents over water access, environmental health concerns, and disease compensation. In Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs, Rocio Gomez examines the detrimental effects of the silver mining industry on water resources and public health in the city of Zacatecas and argues that the human labor necessary to the mining industry made the worker and the mine inseparable through the land, water, and air. Tensions arose between farmers and the mining industry over water access while the city struggled with mudslides, droughts, and water source contamination. Silicosis-tuberculosis, along with accidents caused by mining technologies like jackhammers and ore-crushers, debilitated scores of miners. By emphasizing the perspective of water and public health, Gomez illustrates that the human body and the environment are not separate entities but rather in a state of constant interaction. .
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Terminology Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction
• 1. Communist Racial Democracy in the 1930s
• 2. Embattled Images of Racial Democracy: State Anticommunism in the 1930s
• 3. Presaging the War: Racial Democracy and Fascism in the 1930s
• 4. State Cultural Production, Black Cultural Demarginalization, and Racial Democracy in the 1930s
• 5. The Centrality of Race and Democracy in the US-Brazil Wartime Alliance
• 6. A Partnership in Cultural Production: The Brazil-US Racial Democracy Exchange
• 7. Wartime Racial Democracy at Home: Domestic Pressures and In-House Propaganda Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
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This book offers a historical analysis of one of the most striking and dramatic transformations to take place in Brazil and the United States during the twentieth century-the redefinition of the concepts of nation and democracy in racial terms. The multilateral political debates that occurred between 1930 and 1945 pushed and pulled both states towards more racially inclusive political ideals and nationalisms. Both countries utilized cultural production to transmit these racial political messages. At times working collaboratively, Brazilian and U.S. officials deployed the concept of "racial democracy" as a national security strategy, one meant to suppress the existential threats perceived to be posed by World War II and by the political agendas of communists, fascists, and blacks. Consequently, official racial democracy was limited in its ability to address racial inequities in the United States and Brazil. Shifting the Meaning of Democracy helps to explain the historical roots of a contemporary phenomenon: the coexistence of widespread antiracist ideals with enduring racial inequality. .
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• Introduction: The view from Havana
• Imagining the conquest: a deep history of British plots against Havana
• Havana at the crossroads: war, trade, and slavery, circa 1700-1762
• A city under siege: the battle for Havana
• "La dominación inglesa": eleven months of British rule
• Spanish reoccupation: new beginnings after Havana's return
• Consequences: memories of the siege on an island transformed
• Conclusion: A history that haunts.

In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most populous ports in the Americas. They met fierce resistance. Spanish soldiers and local militias in Cuba, along with enslaved Africans who were promised freedom, held off the enemy for six suspenseful weeks. In the end, the British prevailed, but more lives were lost in the invasion and subsequent eleven-month British occupation of Havana than during the entire Seven Years' War in North America. The Occupation of Havana offers a nuanced and poignantly human account of the British capture and Spanish recovery of this coveted Caribbean city. The book explores both the interconnected histories of the British and Spanish empires and the crucial role played by free people of color and the enslaved in the creation and defense of Havana. Tragically, these men and women would watch their promise of freedom and greater rights vanish in the face of massive slave importation and increased sugar production upon Cuba's return to Spanish rule. By linking imperial negotiations with events in Cuba and their consequences, Elena Schneider sheds new light on the relationship between slavery and empire at the dawn of the Age of Revolutions.
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• Building the Indian law and a decolonization project in Bolivia
• Nation making and the genealogy of the AMP indigenous activists
• The beginning of the decolonization project : Toribio Miranda's framing and dissemination of the Indian law
• Against cholification : Gregorio Titiriku's urban experience and development of earth politics in segregated times
• Between internal colonialism and war : Melitón Gallardo in the southern Andean estates
• Against whitening : Andrés Jacha'qullu's movement between worlds in the era of the Bolivian national revolution of 1952
• The AMP's innovations and its legacy in Bolivia under Evo Morales.

Earth Politics focuses on the lives of four indigenous activist-intellectuals in Bolivia, key leaders in the Alcaldes Mayores Particulares (AMP), a movement established to claim rights for indigenous education and reclaim indigenous lands from hacienda owners. The AMP leaders invented a discourse of decolonization, rooted in part in native religion, and used it to counter structures of internal colonialism, including the existing racial systems. Waskar Ari calls their social movement, practices, and discourse "Earth Politics, " both because of the political meaning that the AMP gave to the worship of the Aymara gods, and because the AMP emphasized the idea of the earth and the place of Indians on it. Depicting the social worlds and life work of the activists, Ari traverses Bolivia's political and social landscape from the 1920s into the early 1970s. He reveals the AMP's extensive geographic reach, genuine grassroots quality, and vibrant regional diversity. Ari had access to the private archives of indigenous families, and he collected oral histories, speaking with men and women who knew the AMP leaders. The resulting examination of Bolivian indigenous activism is one of unparalleled nuance and depth.
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