Marixa Lasso
Biographic Data
| ID | 699747 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marixa Lasso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marixa |
| FAMILY NAME | Lasso |
| SIGNATURE | LASSO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal
De ruta interoceánica panameña a Zona del Canal estadounidense
Este trabajo analiza los cambios políticos, legales y urbanos que transformaron la histórica ruta interoceánica panameña en una Zona del Canal estadounidense. A partir del siglo XVI, este territorio se convirtió en una de las rutas más importantes del comercio mundial y desarrolló un paisaje urbano y rural propio que estaba integrado con el resto de las ciudades y territorio panameño. Sin embargo, en un periodo de diez años (1904-1914), el gobier…
José Agustín Arango Ramírez y su legado
José Agustín Arango Ramírez y su legado traces the life of the Panamanian Arangos from the arrival of the first family member in the early nineteenth century to his descendant José Agustín Arango Remón, one of the protagonists of Panama's independence from Colombia in 1903. The book, commissioned by the Arango family to foremost Panamanian sociologist and historian Alfredo Figueroa Navarro, focuses on the details of the Arango family. However, gi…
Before the Roosevelt Corollary: Colombia and the Nineteenth-Century Panama Canal Treaty Debates
Journal Article Before the Roosevelt Corollary: Colombia and the Nineteenth-Century Panama Canal Treaty Debates Get access Marixa Lasso Marixa Lasso Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 47, Issue 5, November 2023, Pages 764–780, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad054 Published: 27 July 2023
The Singer's Needle: An Undisciplined History of Panamá
The Singer's Needle is a bold and experimental book, a sort of academic version of Julio Cortázar's novel Rayuela (Hopscotch). It is commendable for a scholar to take risks; the profession benefits from such risks and should encourage them by accepting and welcoming them. That said, this book might be the most incisive history of twentieth-century Panama.Ezer Vierba seeks to do two things. First, he examines the history of Panama through three si…
An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World, by Ernesto Bassi
In 1819, after his victory at the battle of Boyacá, Simón Bolívar said of Colombia: "Esta patria es Caribe" (this fatherland is Caribbean).What did he mean by it?We are so used to thinking of Colombia as an Andean nation that it is difficult to switch our mental maps and imagine it as a Caribbean nation.And that is just what Ernesto Bassi invites us to do.An Aqueous Territory asks us to see Colombia from the perspective of its Caribbean Sea.To ac…
Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal
Cutting a path from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Panama Canal set a new course for the development of Central America—but at considerable cost to Panamanians. Sleuth and scholar Marixa Lasso recounts how the canal’s American builders displaced 40,000 residents and erased entire towns in the guise of bringing modernity to the tropics
Panama Canal Forum: From the Conquest of Nature to the Construction of New Ecologies
Nationalism and immigrant labor in a tropical enclave: The West Indians of Colón City, 1850–1936
Focusing on Colón City, Panama, this article illustrates how early twentieth-century narratives about Central American enclaves as backward and isolated places contributed to the exclusion of West Indian immigrants from imaginings of the national citizenry. In showing how enclave narratives distanced tropical workers and places from the global economies and modern technologies they helped create, the article contributes to our understanding of th…
Under the Flags of Freedom: Slave Soldiers and the Wars of Independence in Spanish South America
Guerra Racial e Nação na Gran Colômbia caribenha, Cartagena, 1810-1832
Enquanto que a maioria dos historiadores remete a origem das atuais relações raciais à escravidão colonial, Marixa Lasso argumenta que foi durante a Era das Revoluções das lutas anticoloniais americanas que nações com histórias semelhantes de colonialismo, escravidão e racismo desenvolveram distintos imaginários raciais modernos. Em particular, examina-se a origem da ideologia nacionalista de igualdade e harmonia racial (o mito da democracia raci…
Sociedad, economía y cultura material: Historia urbana de Panamá la Vieja
In Historia urbana de Panamá la Vieja, Alfredo Castillero Calvo builds on four decades of research on colonial Panama to write a masterful economic, social, and cultural history of Panama City’s sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Founded in 1519, Panama was one of the first Spanish cities on the Spanish mainland. It served as the departure point for the conquest of Peru and became an important center of imperial trade in European merchandise an…
El día de la independencia: Una revisión necesaria
The essay examines the emergence of a nationalist ideology of racial equality during the Spanish American wars of independence in Caribbean New Granada; in particular for the case of the Province of Cartagena de Indias. In her analysis, its author shows how creole elites erased afro-descendants from Colombian historic narratives; a historiographic tendency that has remained on in the works of contemporary social historians. Then she focuses on th…
Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831
Un mito republicano de armonía racial: Raza y patriotismo en Colombia, 1820-1812
El artículo sostiene que la ideología nacionalista de armonía e igualdad racial -lo que los académicos contemporáneos han llamado el mito de democracia racial - surgió durante las guerras anticoloniales hispanoamericanas de principios del siglo XIX. Factores como la participación de los negros y mulatos en el ejército patriota, el miedo de la elite a la guerra de razas y la poderosa ideología nacionalista que surgió durante las guerras, llevaron …
Aproximaciones a los estudios de raza y racismo de Colombia
Desde la década pasada en nuestro país ha habido un creciente interés por el tema de razas y racismos desde diversas perspectivas. Aunque ya es sentido común insistir en lo racial como construcción histórica y social, consideramos que es útil ampliar la discusión y reflexión en torno a los supuestos, límites e implicaciones metodológicas y conceptuales de las investigaciones que se están realizando sobre el tema. Para ello invitamos a cuatro inve…
Race War and Nation in Caribbean Gran Colombia, Cartagena, 1810–1832
DURING THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, nations in the Americas faced the quandary of how to reconcile slavery and racial discrimination with the enlightened and liberal ideology of citizenship. Would slavery be abolished? Would all free men, regardless of race, enjoy the equal rights of citizenship, and if not, how would that exclusion be justified within an ideology that proclaimed the equality and brotherhood of humankind? From 1810 to 1812, patriot mov…
Race War and Nation in Caribbean Gran Colombia, Cartagena, 1810–1832
DURING THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, nations in the Americas faced the quandary of how to reconcile slavery and racial discrimination with the enlightened and liberal ideology of citizenship. Would slavery be abolished? Would all free men, regardless of race, enjoy the equal rights of citizenship, and if not, how would that exclusion be justified within an ideology that proclaimed the equality and brotherhood of humankind? From 1810 to 1812, patriot mov…
Panama Canal Forum: From the Conquest of Nature to the Construction of New Ecologies
Nationalism and immigrant labor in a tropical enclave: The West Indians of Colón City, 1850–1936
Focusing on Colón City, Panama, this article illustrates how early twentieth-century narratives about Central American enclaves as backward and isolated places contributed to the exclusion of West Indian immigrants from imaginings of the national citizenry. In showing how enclave narratives distanced tropical workers and places from the global economies and modern technologies they helped create, the article contributes to our understanding of th…
Un mito republicano de armonía racial: Raza y patriotismo en Colombia, 1820-1812
El artículo sostiene que la ideología nacionalista de armonía e igualdad racial -lo que los académicos contemporáneos han llamado el mito de democracia racial - surgió durante las guerras anticoloniales hispanoamericanas de principios del siglo XIX. Factores como la participación de los negros y mulatos en el ejército patriota, el miedo de la elite a la guerra de razas y la poderosa ideología nacionalista que surgió durante las guerras, llevaron …
Aproximaciones a los estudios de raza y racismo de Colombia
Desde la década pasada en nuestro país ha habido un creciente interés por el tema de razas y racismos desde diversas perspectivas. Aunque ya es sentido común insistir en lo racial como construcción histórica y social, consideramos que es útil ampliar la discusión y reflexión en torno a los supuestos, límites e implicaciones metodológicas y conceptuales de las investigaciones que se están realizando sobre el tema. Para ello invitamos a cuatro inve…
Race War and Nation in Caribbean Gran Colombia, Cartagena, 1810–1832
DURING THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, nations in the Americas faced the quandary of how to reconcile slavery and racial discrimination with the enlightened and liberal ideology of citizenship. Would slavery be abolished? Would all free men, regardless of race, enjoy the equal rights of citizenship, and if not, how would that exclusion be justified within an ideology that proclaimed the equality and brotherhood of humankind? From 1810 to 1812, patriot mov…
Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831
Un mito republicano de armonía racial: Raza y patriotismo en Colombia, 1820-1812
El artículo sostiene que la ideología nacionalista de armonía e igualdad racial -lo que los académicos contemporáneos han llamado el mito de democracia racial - surgió durante las guerras anticoloniales hispanoamericanas de principios del siglo XIX. Factores como la participación de los negros y mulatos en el ejército patriota, el miedo de la elite a la guerra de razas y la poderosa ideología nacionalista que surgió durante las guerras, llevaron …
Aproximaciones a los estudios de raza y racismo de Colombia
Desde la década pasada en nuestro país ha habido un creciente interés por el tema de razas y racismos desde diversas perspectivas. Aunque ya es sentido común insistir en lo racial como construcción histórica y social, consideramos que es útil ampliar la discusión y reflexión en torno a los supuestos, límites e implicaciones metodológicas y conceptuales de las investigaciones que se están realizando sobre el tema. Para ello invitamos a cuatro inve…
El día de la independencia: Una revisión necesaria
The essay examines the emergence of a nationalist ideology of racial equality during the Spanish American wars of independence in Caribbean New Granada; in particular for the case of the Province of Cartagena de Indias. In her analysis, its author shows how creole elites erased afro-descendants from Colombian historic narratives; a historiographic tendency that has remained on in the works of contemporary social historians. Then she focuses on th…
Under the Flags of Freedom: Slave Soldiers and the Wars of Independence in Spanish South America
Guerra Racial e Nação na Gran Colômbia caribenha, Cartagena, 1810-1832
Enquanto que a maioria dos historiadores remete a origem das atuais relações raciais à escravidão colonial, Marixa Lasso argumenta que foi durante a Era das Revoluções das lutas anticoloniais americanas que nações com histórias semelhantes de colonialismo, escravidão e racismo desenvolveram distintos imaginários raciais modernos. Em particular, examina-se a origem da ideologia nacionalista de igualdade e harmonia racial (o mito da democracia raci…
Sociedad, economía y cultura material: Historia urbana de Panamá la Vieja
In Historia urbana de Panamá la Vieja, Alfredo Castillero Calvo builds on four decades of research on colonial Panama to write a masterful economic, social, and cultural history of Panama City’s sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Founded in 1519, Panama was one of the first Spanish cities on the Spanish mainland. It served as the departure point for the conquest of Peru and became an important center of imperial trade in European merchandise an…
Nationalism and immigrant labor in a tropical enclave: The West Indians of Colón City, 1850–1936
Focusing on Colón City, Panama, this article illustrates how early twentieth-century narratives about Central American enclaves as backward and isolated places contributed to the exclusion of West Indian immigrants from imaginings of the national citizenry. In showing how enclave narratives distanced tropical workers and places from the global economies and modern technologies they helped create, the article contributes to our understanding of th…
Panama Canal Forum: From the Conquest of Nature to the Construction of New Ecologies
Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal
Cutting a path from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Panama Canal set a new course for the development of Central America—but at considerable cost to Panamanians. Sleuth and scholar Marixa Lasso recounts how the canal’s American builders displaced 40,000 residents and erased entire towns in the guise of bringing modernity to the tropics
An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World, by Ernesto Bassi
In 1819, after his victory at the battle of Boyacá, Simón Bolívar said of Colombia: "Esta patria es Caribe" (this fatherland is Caribbean).What did he mean by it?We are so used to thinking of Colombia as an Andean nation that it is difficult to switch our mental maps and imagine it as a Caribbean nation.And that is just what Ernesto Bassi invites us to do.An Aqueous Territory asks us to see Colombia from the perspective of its Caribbean Sea.To ac…
The Singer's Needle: An Undisciplined History of Panamá
The Singer's Needle is a bold and experimental book, a sort of academic version of Julio Cortázar's novel Rayuela (Hopscotch). It is commendable for a scholar to take risks; the profession benefits from such risks and should encourage them by accepting and welcoming them. That said, this book might be the most incisive history of twentieth-century Panama.Ezer Vierba seeks to do two things. First, he examines the history of Panama through three si…
Before the Roosevelt Corollary: Colombia and the Nineteenth-Century Panama Canal Treaty Debates
Journal Article Before the Roosevelt Corollary: Colombia and the Nineteenth-Century Panama Canal Treaty Debates Get access Marixa Lasso Marixa Lasso Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 47, Issue 5, November 2023, Pages 764–780, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad054 Published: 27 July 2023
José Agustín Arango Ramírez y su legado
José Agustín Arango Ramírez y su legado traces the life of the Panamanian Arangos from the arrival of the first family member in the early nineteenth century to his descendant José Agustín Arango Remón, one of the protagonists of Panama's independence from Colombia in 1903. The book, commissioned by the Arango family to foremost Panamanian sociologist and historian Alfredo Figueroa Navarro, focuses on the details of the Arango family. However, gi…
Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal
De ruta interoceánica panameña a Zona del Canal estadounidense
Este trabajo analiza los cambios políticos, legales y urbanos que transformaron la histórica ruta interoceánica panameña en una Zona del Canal estadounidense. A partir del siglo XVI, este territorio se convirtió en una de las rutas más importantes del comercio mundial y desarrolló un paisaje urbano y rural propio que estaba integrado con el resto de las ciudades y territorio panameño. Sin embargo, en un periodo de diez años (1904-1914), el gobier…
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