Robert Buffington
Biographic Data
| ID | 146652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Buffington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Buffington |
| SIGNATURE | BUFFINGTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado System |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8649-2151 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
C hin- C hun- C han
This article looks at popular responses to the zarzuela Chin-Chun-Chan and the issues that surfaced around its timely subject in early twentieth-century Mexico City. The principal source is the Mexico City satiric penny press for workers, supplemented by somewhat less polemical broadsides, both sold on the streets of the capital. Aimed mostly at working-class Mexicans, these sources offer a glimpse at popular attitudes circulating in a public sph…
Culture and Revolution
Death in the City
Book Review| August 01 2018 Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico. By Sloan, Kathryn A.. Violence in Latin American History. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. Photographs. Map. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 257 pp. Paper, $29.95. Robert M. Buffington Robert M. Buffington University of Colorado Boulder Search for oth…
Contention and the Dynamics of Inequality in Mexico, 1910-2010
A global history of sexuality
Satan's Playground
Reading Satan’s Playground, Paul Vanderwood’s latest history of the San Diego– Tijuana borderlands, I was struck by its unexpected resonances with Mike Davis’s City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Verso, 1990), one of the foundational texts of postmodern geography. City of Quartz offered up provocative readings of the great early twentieth-century southern California mythmakers — boosters, noirs, mercenaries, exiles, etc. — and t…
Teaching and Learning Guide for
Author's Introduction One of the thorniest problems confronting historians is figuring out what is at stake for historical actors: how people in the past understood their situation, what they did (or didn't do) about it, and why. The ‘stakes’ problem becomes even more complicated when it revolves around issues of gender and sexuality – issues that are often very different for historical actors than they are for present‐day historians. This essay …
Subjectivity, Agency, and the New Latin American History of Gender and Sexuality
Recent critiques of the concept of agency by social historians have raised concerns about the ways in which it distorts, flattens, and over‐simplifies the historical field. This article argues that a better theoretical understanding of the complex intersections of subjectivity (especially the process of subjection through which the subject is produced and maintained) and agency (as exercised by the subject) will resolve many of those concerns and…
Culturas de pobreza y resistencia
The 12 essays and the theoretical/historiographical introduction that comprise this excellent edited collection analyze popular responses to nation building in Mexico, from the beginning of the independence era until the dawn of the 1910 revolution. The essays are divided into two sections. The first contains studies of the urban poor and their resistance to vagrancy laws and other elite efforts at social control, four examining Mexico City and o…
La 'Dancing' Mexicana
At first glance, the danzon craze that surrounded director Maria Novaro's 1991 feature film, Danzon, is hard to explain. To dance aficionados (except perhaps those from Veracruz or Mexico City), da
Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America
The only reader currently available on criminality in Latin America, Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America reconstructs the way in which different Latin American societies have viewed, described, defined, and reacted to criminal behavior. Crime in Latin America is explored in terms of gender, race, class, and criminological theory. The highly readable essays in this book explore how Catholic notions of sin, natural law, the "divine" rights …
Tales of Two Women
It was the perfect murder, really. Illicit passions: two beautiful women-of-the-night feuding over a dashing young rake, a masked ball, casual taunts, thwarted assaults, escalating threats. Heinous crime: the lover's borrowed gun, midnight bordello visit, fighting words, a gun shot, a maid's scream, a young woman's tragic death. Cruel punishment: suicidal remorse (by some accounts), humiliating public trial, twenty lost years (the maximum sentenc…
Prohibition in the Borderlands
Research Article| February 01 1994 Prohibition in the Borderlands: National Government-Border Community Relations Robert Buffington Robert Buffington Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1994) 63 (1): 19–38. https://doi.org/10.2307/3640667 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools G…
Revolutionary Reform
El presente trabajo examina la evolución del discurso sobre la reforma carcelaria mexicana a partir de mediados del siglo XIX hasta el Congreso Constituyente de 1916-17. Reconoce que se da una fuerte continuidad en el discurso sobre la reforma carcelaria de las élites mexicanas, en particular su preocupación acerca de la criminalidad de las clases bajas. Al mismo tiempo reconoce los esfuerzos de los revolucionarios por poner un freno al abuso pot…
Prohibition in the Borderlands
Research Article| February 01 1994 Prohibition in the Borderlands: National Government-Border Community Relations Robert Buffington Robert Buffington Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1994) 63 (1): 19–38. https://doi.org/10.2307/3640667 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools G…
La 'Dancing' Mexicana
At first glance, the danzon craze that surrounded director Maria Novaro's 1991 feature film, Danzon, is hard to explain. To dance aficionados (except perhaps those from Veracruz or Mexico City), da
C hin- C hun- C han
This article looks at popular responses to the zarzuela Chin-Chun-Chan and the issues that surfaced around its timely subject in early twentieth-century Mexico City. The principal source is the Mexico City satiric penny press for workers, supplemented by somewhat less polemical broadsides, both sold on the streets of the capital. Aimed mostly at working-class Mexicans, these sources offer a glimpse at popular attitudes circulating in a public sph…
Tales of Two Women
It was the perfect murder, really. Illicit passions: two beautiful women-of-the-night feuding over a dashing young rake, a masked ball, casual taunts, thwarted assaults, escalating threats. Heinous crime: the lover's borrowed gun, midnight bordello visit, fighting words, a gun shot, a maid's scream, a young woman's tragic death. Cruel punishment: suicidal remorse (by some accounts), humiliating public trial, twenty lost years (the maximum sentenc…
Revolutionary Reform
El presente trabajo examina la evolución del discurso sobre la reforma carcelaria mexicana a partir de mediados del siglo XIX hasta el Congreso Constituyente de 1916-17. Reconoce que se da una fuerte continuidad en el discurso sobre la reforma carcelaria de las élites mexicanas, en particular su preocupación acerca de la criminalidad de las clases bajas. Al mismo tiempo reconoce los esfuerzos de los revolucionarios por poner un freno al abuso pot…
Revolutionary Reform
El presente trabajo examina la evolución del discurso sobre la reforma carcelaria mexicana a partir de mediados del siglo XIX hasta el Congreso Constituyente de 1916-17. Reconoce que se da una fuerte continuidad en el discurso sobre la reforma carcelaria de las élites mexicanas, en particular su preocupación acerca de la criminalidad de las clases bajas. Al mismo tiempo reconoce los esfuerzos de los revolucionarios por poner un freno al abuso pot…
Prohibition in the Borderlands
Research Article| February 01 1994 Prohibition in the Borderlands: National Government-Border Community Relations Robert Buffington Robert Buffington Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1994) 63 (1): 19–38. https://doi.org/10.2307/3640667 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools G…
Tales of Two Women
It was the perfect murder, really. Illicit passions: two beautiful women-of-the-night feuding over a dashing young rake, a masked ball, casual taunts, thwarted assaults, escalating threats. Heinous crime: the lover's borrowed gun, midnight bordello visit, fighting words, a gun shot, a maid's scream, a young woman's tragic death. Cruel punishment: suicidal remorse (by some accounts), humiliating public trial, twenty lost years (the maximum sentenc…
Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America
The only reader currently available on criminality in Latin America, Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America reconstructs the way in which different Latin American societies have viewed, described, defined, and reacted to criminal behavior. Crime in Latin America is explored in terms of gender, race, class, and criminological theory. The highly readable essays in this book explore how Catholic notions of sin, natural law, the "divine" rights …
La 'Dancing' Mexicana
At first glance, the danzon craze that surrounded director Maria Novaro's 1991 feature film, Danzon, is hard to explain. To dance aficionados (except perhaps those from Veracruz or Mexico City), da
Culturas de pobreza y resistencia
The 12 essays and the theoretical/historiographical introduction that comprise this excellent edited collection analyze popular responses to nation building in Mexico, from the beginning of the independence era until the dawn of the 1910 revolution. The essays are divided into two sections. The first contains studies of the urban poor and their resistance to vagrancy laws and other elite efforts at social control, four examining Mexico City and o…
Subjectivity, Agency, and the New Latin American History of Gender and Sexuality
Recent critiques of the concept of agency by social historians have raised concerns about the ways in which it distorts, flattens, and over‐simplifies the historical field. This article argues that a better theoretical understanding of the complex intersections of subjectivity (especially the process of subjection through which the subject is produced and maintained) and agency (as exercised by the subject) will resolve many of those concerns and…
Teaching and Learning Guide for
Author's Introduction One of the thorniest problems confronting historians is figuring out what is at stake for historical actors: how people in the past understood their situation, what they did (or didn't do) about it, and why. The ‘stakes’ problem becomes even more complicated when it revolves around issues of gender and sexuality – issues that are often very different for historical actors than they are for present‐day historians. This essay …
Satan's Playground
Reading Satan’s Playground, Paul Vanderwood’s latest history of the San Diego– Tijuana borderlands, I was struck by its unexpected resonances with Mike Davis’s City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Verso, 1990), one of the foundational texts of postmodern geography. City of Quartz offered up provocative readings of the great early twentieth-century southern California mythmakers — boosters, noirs, mercenaries, exiles, etc. — and t…
A global history of sexuality
Contention and the Dynamics of Inequality in Mexico, 1910-2010
Culture and Revolution
Death in the City
Book Review| August 01 2018 Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico. By Sloan, Kathryn A.. Violence in Latin American History. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. Photographs. Map. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 257 pp. Paper, $29.95. Robert M. Buffington Robert M. Buffington University of Colorado Boulder Search for oth…
C hin- C hun- C han
This article looks at popular responses to the zarzuela Chin-Chun-Chan and the issues that surfaced around its timely subject in early twentieth-century Mexico City. The principal source is the Mexico City satiric penny press for workers, supplemented by somewhat less polemical broadsides, both sold on the streets of the capital. Aimed mostly at working-class Mexicans, these sources offer a glimpse at popular attitudes circulating in a public sph…
Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · History (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Latin Americans (5 works) · Historical Studies in Latin America (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works)