Brian Weinstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 118787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Weinstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Weinstein |
| SIGNATURE | WEINSTEIN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1126-8622 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
H ow to B ecome a H istorian of L atin A merica
In January 2001, before the Conference on Latin American History decided to link its annual luncheon address to the recipient of its Distinguished Service Award, I had the honor of speaking at the CLAH luncheon, and in that previous talk I briefly discussed the circumstances that led to my becoming a Latin Americanist. Here I return to the theme of becoming a historian of Latin America, but this time I will be drawing not on my own rather unremar…
Cassia Roth, A Miscarriage of Justice
O historiador mais conhecido do mundo
Resenha: EVANS, Richard J. Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, 785 p
Brazil
It is good news for anyone in the Anglophone world interested in Brazil that there is now a single volume in English, by two of Brazil's most eminent historians, that surveys that nation's history from its colonial roots to the very recent past. There are other histories of Brazil available to the interested reader, but they tend to be volumes written specifically with the undergraduate classroom in mind. Brazil: A Biography is not that sort of b…
Richard J. Evans. Eric Hobsbawm
Most historians would be pleased, if secretly, to have so much as a Wikipedia page dedicated to their life and work. Eric Hobsbawm not only published a best-selling memoir during his lifetime, but is now the subject of a 750-page biography by the distinguished historian of Germany, Richard J. Evans. Even taking into account that Hobsbawm was, during the final decades of his long life, arguably “the best-known and the most widely read historian in…
Globalizando a História do Trabalho
O presente artigo segue a trajetória da revista International Labor and Working-Class History (ILWCH) ao longo das últimas duas décadas, delineando sua transição de uma revista com um enfoque quase exclusivamente na história da Europa para uma publicação com uma perspectiva mais global. Embora houvesse nas páginas da ILWCH um interesse na globalização como fenômeno começando nos anos 1990, um importante artigo sobre este tema escrito por Charles …
João José Reis. Divining Slavery and Freedom
Once upon a time, historians of slavery and emancipation in Brazil labored under the misapprehension that the majority of the records pertaining to the enslaved had been lost or destroyed. Thus, they believed that it would be impossible to write the sort of detailed histories about life and labor under slavery being published elsewhere. A handful of pioneering studies on plantation slavery in specific counties did offer a somewhat more intimate v…
Sou ainda uma Brazilianist
Este artigo questiona a utilidade da categoria de "brasilianista". Esta expressão, uma verdadeira "etiqueta" para o estrangeiro que estuda Brasil, surgiu nos anos 1970, numa época de expansão dos estudos brasileiros nos Estados Unidos, a qual coincidiu com os "anos de chumbo", no Brasil. Por isso, o conceito nascido no contexto da Guerra Fria fatalmente invocava uma figura norte-americana com orientação política específica e cujas pesquisas levar…
Orientalismo em um só País? Raça, Região e Nação no Brasil do Século XX
This article considers the different approaches to the problem of regional inequalities within nations in Latin America, and specifically in Brazil. Beginning in the 1960s, scholars used "internal colonialism" to analyze these inequalities, but this concept fell out of fashion in the 1980s with the post-structuralist/cultural turn. Yet dramatic regional inequalities continued to be a feature of Latin American societies. This article suggests adap…
The Color of Modernity
In The Color of Modernity, Barbara Weinstein focuses on race, gender, and regionalism in the formation of national identities in Brazil; this focus allows her to explore how uneven patterns of economic development are consolidated and understood. Organized around two principal episodes-the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution and 1954's IV Centenário, the quadricentennial of São Paulo's founding-this book shows how both elites and popular sectors in…
Pensando a história fora da nação
Este ensaio examina a emergência da "virada transnacional" dentro da profissão de historiador a partir dos anos 1990. Defendo que os historiadores da América Latina desempenharam um papel central na mudança para abordagens transnacionais. Ansiosos para contestar as interpretações históricas que tratam da história da América Latina como uma ramificação econômica, iniciativas políticas e culturais norte-americanas, os latino-americanistas têm procu…
John Manuel Monteiro (1956-2013)
On March 26, 2013, a tragic auto accident interrupted the rich and productive career of historian John Manuel Monteiro. Born in Minnesota, the descendant of Portuguese immigrants, John spent part of his childhood in Brazil and Colombia but did his advanced studies in history in the United States, first at Colorado College and then at the University of Chicago, where he earned both his master's and doctoral degrees in 1980 and 1985, respectively. …
Angus Burgin. The Great Persuasion
Journal Article Angus Burgin. The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression. Get access Angus Burgin. The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2012. Pp. 303. $29.95. Benjamin Weinstein Benjamin Weinstein Central Michigan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 4…
Elas nem parecem operárias” – feminilidade e classe na América Latina no século XX
Novas pesquisas sobre a cultura de consumo e a feminilidade operária nos Estados Unidos têm argumentado que a atenção dada pelas jovens operárias à roupa da moda e aos romances populares não minou as identidades proletárias, mas, pelo contrário, providenciou importantes recursos para criar essas identidades. Neste artigo considero se podemos encontrar um processo similar de apropriação entre as mulheres operárias na América Latina. Mulheres operá…
Erecting and Erasing Boundaries
One of the ongoing tensions in the field of Latin American history is the relationship between Spanish America and Portuguese America, and to what extent they together constitute a coherent object of study called Latin America. Brazilianists never tire of bemoaning the hegemony of the Mexicanists (particularly in the field of history) and the reluctance of most Spanish Americanists to fully integrate Brazil into their courses and transnational fr…
Local Self-Government Is True Socialism
The historiography of the ‘Victorian revolution in government’ has characterized Joshua Toulmin Smith as a promoter of individualism, ‘enterprise values’, and anti-statism. Where Edwin Chadwick has been described as an early theorist of the welfare state, Smith has been seen as Chadwick's foil: a supreme champion of the Victorian laissez-faire state. Smith's strong advocacy of ‘local-self government’ in works such as Local Self Government and Cen…
Developing Inequality
Diálogos Brasil-Estados Unidos
Modernidade tropical
This article examines two representations of the Amazon and its potential for development produced in 1944 as part of the "Good Neighbor Policy" promoted by the United States during World War II. It analyzes the Disney film The Amazon awakens, whose portrayal of the Amazon as urbanized and incipiently modern, contrasts with the usual attention to regional exoticism and otherness. In accentuating the Amazon's potential for progress, the film visua…
They don't even look like women workers”
Recent research on consumer culture and working-class femininity in the United States has argued that attention to fashionable clothing and dime novels did not undermine female working-class identities, but rather provided key resources for creating those identities. In this essay I consider whether we can see a similar process of appropriation by working-class women in Latin America. There women employed in factories had to contend with widespre…
"Inventing the "Mulher Paulista
This article considers the complicated relationship between women's mobilization and their recognition as political actors. In 1932 the state of São Paulo, long Brazil's dominant political center, took up arms against the federal government, headed by Getúlio Vargas, in protest against São Paulo's diminished status under the new dictatorship. A key feature of this short-lived civil war was the prominent role of women in the regionalist movement. …
History Without a Cause? Grand Narratives, World History, and the Postcolonial Dilemma
Among the many historical conventions that went out of fashion in the wake of the linguistic and/or cultural turn was the grand explanatory narrative rooted in an interpretive tradition that typically traced an arc from causes to consequences. A chorus of criticism consigned the grand or meta-narrative to the dustbin of historiography, if not history. Linguistic theorists like Hayden White seemed to challenge historians' cherished notions of inte…
História sem causa? A nova história cultural, a grande narrativa e o dilema pós-colonial
Este artigo examina o declínio das grandes narrativas historiográficas norte-americanas, associado ao auge da nova história cultural. A influência da antropologia cultural, com destaque para Clifford Geertz, resultou no privilegiamento da micro-história e no eclipse dos processos de causação e explicação. Ao mesmo tempo, muitos historiadores pós-modernos continuam referendando, ainda que não explicitamente, narrativas eurocêntricas da transição à…
Jacob M. Landau & Barbara Kellner-Heinkele. Politics of Language in the ex-Soviet Muslim States; Azerbayjan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan
Experiência de pesquisa em uma região periférica
Este artigo é um depoimento a respeito de uma pesquisa em história social, mais tarde transformada em livro, realizada na década de 1980, na Amazônia. O objeto de estudo era o ciclo da borracha, com ênfase nas relações de produção estabelecidas entre seringueiros, aviadores e 'barões da borracha'. A metodologia empregada utilizou como fonte principal diversos arquivos, entre eles revistas, jornais e outras publicações da época, assim como a análi…
Modern and Traditional Elites in the Politics of Lagos
Language Strategists
The decision to use and develop a low-status language in translations and creative works is often based on a desire to provide symbols that will assist the efforts of political leaders to challenge existing national and ethnic frontiers and to create new groups loyal to different institutions. New frontiers alter the relationships between peoples and also affect patterns of access to power and wealth within a group. Writers, translators, dictiona…
History Without a Cause? Grand Narratives, World History, and the Postcolonial Dilemma
Among the many historical conventions that went out of fashion in the wake of the linguistic and/or cultural turn was the grand explanatory narrative rooted in an interpretive tradition that typically traced an arc from causes to consequences. A chorus of criticism consigned the grand or meta-narrative to the dustbin of historiography, if not history. Linguistic theorists like Hayden White seemed to challenge historians' cherished notions of inte…
The Color of Modernity
In The Color of Modernity, Barbara Weinstein focuses on race, gender, and regionalism in the formation of national identities in Brazil; this focus allows her to explore how uneven patterns of economic development are consolidated and understood. Organized around two principal episodes-the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution and 1954's IV Centenário, the quadricentennial of São Paulo's founding-this book shows how both elites and popular sectors in…
Felix Eboue and the Chiefs
Discussions about ‘direct’ administration and ‘indirect’ administration, with regard to French and British colonial policies, are less important than the question of who—local leaders or colonial administrators—had power over the lives of Africans. Monthly reports written by heads of subdivisions, the smallest French administrative units in a colony like Oubangui-Chari, are the most important written source of information for the day-to-day event…
Pensando a história fora da nação
Este ensaio examina a emergência da "virada transnacional" dentro da profissão de historiador a partir dos anos 1990. Defendo que os historiadores da América Latina desempenharam um papel central na mudança para abordagens transnacionais. Ansiosos para contestar as interpretações históricas que tratam da história da América Latina como uma ramificação econômica, iniciativas políticas e culturais norte-americanas, os latino-americanistas têm procu…
Language Planning in Francophone Africa
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Francophonie
Because of France's traditional use of culture and language as an instrument of foreign policy, it would be easy to dismiss any movement involving French as serving her national interests. Francophonie, whose purpose is to strengthen the French language and serve the interests of those who use it, depends on nongovernmental organizations and subunits of government in about 26 countries. Its leaders claim it serves the purposes of all French-speak…
"Inventing the "Mulher Paulista
This article considers the complicated relationship between women's mobilization and their recognition as political actors. In 1932 the state of São Paulo, long Brazil's dominant political center, took up arms against the federal government, headed by Getúlio Vargas, in protest against São Paulo's diminished status under the new dictatorship. A key feature of this short-lived civil war was the prominent role of women in the regionalist movement. …
História sem causa? A nova história cultural, a grande narrativa e o dilema pós-colonial
Este artigo examina o declínio das grandes narrativas historiográficas norte-americanas, associado ao auge da nova história cultural. A influência da antropologia cultural, com destaque para Clifford Geertz, resultou no privilegiamento da micro-história e no eclipse dos processos de causação e explicação. Ao mesmo tempo, muitos historiadores pós-modernos continuam referendando, ainda que não explicitamente, narrativas eurocêntricas da transição à…
Not the Republic of Their Dreams
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Sou ainda uma Brazilianist
Este artigo questiona a utilidade da categoria de "brasilianista". Esta expressão, uma verdadeira "etiqueta" para o estrangeiro que estuda Brasil, surgiu nos anos 1970, numa época de expansão dos estudos brasileiros nos Estados Unidos, a qual coincidiu com os "anos de chumbo", no Brasil. Por isso, o conceito nascido no contexto da Guerra Fria fatalmente invocava uma figura norte-americana com orientação política específica e cujas pesquisas levar…
Local Self-Government Is True Socialism
The historiography of the ‘Victorian revolution in government’ has characterized Joshua Toulmin Smith as a promoter of individualism, ‘enterprise values’, and anti-statism. Where Edwin Chadwick has been described as an early theorist of the welfare state, Smith has been seen as Chadwick's foil: a supreme champion of the Victorian laissez-faire state. Smith's strong advocacy of ‘local-self government’ in works such as Local Self Government and Cen…
Experiência de pesquisa em uma região periférica
Este artigo é um depoimento a respeito de uma pesquisa em história social, mais tarde transformada em livro, realizada na década de 1980, na Amazônia. O objeto de estudo era o ciclo da borracha, com ênfase nas relações de produção estabelecidas entre seringueiros, aviadores e 'barões da borracha'. A metodologia empregada utilizou como fonte principal diversos arquivos, entre eles revistas, jornais e outras publicações da época, assim como a análi…
Buddy, Can you Spare a Paradigm
“So, just how did you get interested in Latin America anyway?” Latin Americanists who don't have a recognizably Spanish or Portuguese surname are routinely asked this question by acquaintances, distant relatives, recently hired colleagues, and even by that most dreaded of airline passengers, the garrulous fool in the next seat. I don't have a convenient response—I can't claim to be the daughter of missionaries (my last name is a dead giveaway on …
The New Latin American Labor History
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H ow to B ecome a H istorian of L atin A merica
In January 2001, before the Conference on Latin American History decided to link its annual luncheon address to the recipient of its Distinguished Service Award, I had the honor of speaking at the CLAH luncheon, and in that previous talk I briefly discussed the circumstances that led to my becoming a Latin Americanist. Here I return to the theme of becoming a historian of Latin America, but this time I will be drawing not on my own rather unremar…
Cassia Roth, A Miscarriage of Justice
Globalizando a História do Trabalho
O presente artigo segue a trajetória da revista International Labor and Working-Class History (ILWCH) ao longo das últimas duas décadas, delineando sua transição de uma revista com um enfoque quase exclusivamente na história da Europa para uma publicação com uma perspectiva mais global. Embora houvesse nas páginas da ILWCH um interesse na globalização como fenômeno começando nos anos 1990, um importante artigo sobre este tema escrito por Charles …
They don't even look like women workers”
Recent research on consumer culture and working-class femininity in the United States has argued that attention to fashionable clothing and dime novels did not undermine female working-class identities, but rather provided key resources for creating those identities. In this essay I consider whether we can see a similar process of appropriation by working-class women in Latin America. There women employed in factories had to contend with widespre…
La investigación sobre identidad y ciudadanía en Estados Unidos
Este artículo analiza las nuevas tendencias en la historiografía norteamericana sobre ciudadanía e identidad. La autora argumenta que el cambio de la nueva historia social a la nueva historia cultural también significa una transición del estudio de grupos marginalizados u oprimidos (mujeres, americanos africanos, gays) al estudio de posiciones de subjetividad y relacionales (género, raza, queerness) que son mucho más radicales en sus implicacione…
Where Do New Ideas (About Class) Come From
In my comment I raise two main questions about the Eley/Nield essay. First, I express some doubts about whether the issues discussed in their essay can be unproblematically transposed to historiographical debates in areas beyond Western Europe and North America. Certain themes, such as the need to reemphasize the political, are hardly pressing given the continual emphasis on politics and the state in Latin American labor history. Closely related …
Biblical Evidence of Spice Trade Between India and the Land of Israel
A Pesquisa sobre Identidade e Cidadania nos EUA
O presente artigo analisa as novas tendências da historiografia norte-americana a respeito da cidadania e da identidade, evidenciando os deslocamentos ocorridos tanto na escolha dos objetos de pesquisa quanto na abordagem. A passagem da história social para a história cultural implicou em rupturas significativas e abriu novas direções de pesquisa, perceptível na produção mais recente
Ethiopian Jews in Israel
Approximately 15,000 Black Jews from Ethiopia have arrived over the past few years in the State of Israel. They call themselves Beta Israel or House of Israel, but their former Christian and Muslim neighbors in Africa refer to them as Falashas, or landless strangers, a somewhat derogatory term by which they also became known in Europe as early as the twelfth century. Because most of the 10,000 to 15,000 Jews remaining in Africa wish to emigrate, …
Social Communication Methodology in the Study of Nation-Building
Weinstein Brian. Social Communication Methodology in the Study of Nation-Building. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 4, n°16, 1964. pp. 569-589
The French Community— Does It Exist
Essay| April 01 1966 The French Community— Does It Exist? Brian Weinstein Brian Weinstein Assistant Professor of Political Science, Tuskegee Institute Brian Weinstein taught at die Ecole Superérieure d’Administration in Guinea before joining the faculty of Tuskegee Institute. He has done field work in Gabon and other of the French-speaking states of Africa and is the author of two monographs published by Boston University (Training Programs in Fr…
Training Administrators in Africa
Specialised semi-autonomous institutions for the training of civil servants have been set up in almost all independent countries of Africa. They are another symbol of independence, and the goals of independence could not be reached without the African civil servants they train. Because many of the needs of nation-building are the same, there are similarities between the Ecoles nationales d'administration (ENA's) in French-speaking countries and t…
Africanization in French Africa
Felix Eboue and the Chiefs
Discussions about ‘direct’ administration and ‘indirect’ administration, with regard to French and British colonial policies, are less important than the question of who—local leaders or colonial administrators—had power over the lives of Africans. Monthly reports written by heads of subdivisions, the smallest French administrative units in a colony like Oubangui-Chari, are the most important written source of information for the day-to-day event…
Eboue
Black French Colonial Administrator
Portrait of a Black Frenchman
Introduction to African Politics
Joseph D. Cooper
Modern and Traditional Elites in the Politics of Lagos
Francophonie
Because of France's traditional use of culture and language as an instrument of foreign policy, it would be easy to dismiss any movement involving French as serving her national interests. Francophonie, whose purpose is to strengthen the French language and serve the interests of those who use it, depends on nongovernmental organizations and subunits of government in about 26 countries. Its leaders claim it serves the purposes of all French-speak…
Language Strategists
The decision to use and develop a low-status language in translations and creative works is often based on a desire to provide symbols that will assist the efforts of political leaders to challenge existing national and ethnic frontiers and to create new groups loyal to different institutions. New frontiers alter the relationships between peoples and also affect patterns of access to power and wealth within a group. Writers, translators, dictiona…
The Western Sahara
Essay| March 01 1980 The Western Sahara Brian Weinstein Brian Weinstein Professor of Political Science, Howard University Brian Weinstein is the author of Gabon: Nation Building on the Ogooué (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1967) and Eboué (New York; Oxford University Press, 1972), and the coauthor of Introduction to African Politics: A Continental Approach, 2d. ed. (New York: Praeger, 1977). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubM…
Language Planning in Francophone Africa
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Noah Webster and the diffusion of linguistic innovations for political purposes
Article Noah Webster and the diffusion of linguistic innovations for political purposes was published on January 1, 1982 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1982, issue 38)
The Long Journey of Noah Webster
The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920
Haiti
Ethiopian Jews in Israel
Approximately 15,000 Black Jews from Ethiopia have arrived over the past few years in the State of Israel. They call themselves Beta Israel or House of Israel, but their former Christian and Muslim neighbors in Africa refer to them as Falashas, or landless strangers, a somewhat derogatory term by which they also became known in Europe as early as the twelfth century. Because most of the 10,000 to 15,000 Jews remaining in Africa wish to emigrate, …
The Amazon Rubber Boom 1850-1920
The Amazon Rubber Boom
Underdeveloping the Amazon
XIVth Ipsa World Congress
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Award Recipients
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