PUBLICATIONS

The Brazilian State: Debate and Agenda - NEW!
Edited by Mauricio A. Font and Laura Randall

with the special assistance of Janaina Saad

The Brazilian State explores the changing roles, relation with society, and overall impact of the contemporary Brazilian State. The 16 chapters by scholars from Brazil and the United States contribute to the understanding of various policy areas in an emerging and fast-growing country. Collectively, the papers probe the relationship between state reform, institutional development, policy effectiveness, and economic dynamics since the 1930s, and provide analyses of issues that will be the center of debate in the presidency of the newly-elected Dilma Rousseff.

This volume is scheduled for publication in early 2011.

This volume is part of the Bildner Western Hemisphere Book Series

Coffee and Transformation in São Paulo, Brazil - NEW!

Mauricio A. Font

Coffee and Transformation in São Paulo, Brazil advances a distinctive interpretation of the dynamism of the São Paulo region since the latter part of the nineteenth century. Large and entrepreneurial coffee landlords opened the frontier to the west of the state capital, playing a key role in making the state and Brazil the world’s largest coffee producer for international markets. However, many of the immigrant settlers from Italy, Japan, Spain, and other countries emerged as major actors in the last phase of frontier expansion in western São Paulo. A substantial number of them found ways to become independent agriculturalists or enact new careers in commerce, industry, and services in the network of towns emerging in this region. This volume pays close attention to the political and economic implications of this region’s process of segmentation and transformation, including their links to regionalism, political conflict, and the Revolution of 1930.

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Changing Cuba in a Changing World

Edited by Mauricio A. Font
with the assistance of John Arias

Volume contains papers presented at the international conference A Changing Cuba in a Changing World held at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (March 13-15, 2008). The essays relate research and analysis that focus on the current changing state of Cuba and represent diverse perspectives and discilpines. Five thematic sections are emphasized here: Ideas, Ideology and Politics; Cuba and the World; Economics; History, Culture and Race; and Literature, Cinema and Arts. (Online publication)

Nas trilhas de revolução
Aliás, O Estado de S. Paulo
Edição especial: Para onde Viao Expresso Fidel

Written by Mauricio Font

Article written by Mauricio Font for the Special Edition '50 Years of the Cuban Revolution' in the prominent Brazilian newspaper, O Estado de S. Paulo. The article addresses the path of the Cuban Revolution and analyzes its current consequences and perception.

CUBA: In Transition? Pathways to Renewal, Long-Term Development and Global Reintegration
Edited by Mauricio A. Font
with the assistance of Scott Larson
Online papers and proceedings from the homonymous symposium, held March 13-15, 2006 at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. The collected essays address prospects for economic evolution, Cuba in comparative perspective, Cuba's changing institutions and the making of material culture related to the island. (Online publication)

The Cuban Republic and José Martí: Reception and Use of a National Symbol
Edited by Mauricio A. Font and Alfonso W. Quiroz
Series of essays addressing the influence of José Martí – poet, scholar and revolutionary – on the formation of diverging national identities in post-independence Cuba. The volume provides a critical analysis of Martí's political and literary legacies and the ways they have been used to advance contrasting versions of contemporary Cuban reality.
(This volume is part of the Bildner Western Hemisphere Book Series)

Cuban Counterpoints: The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz
Edited by Mauricio A. Font and Alfonso W. Quiroz
Essays discussing Ortiz's profoundly influential approach to transculturation, Afro-Latin culture, race relations, and such major themes in Cuban society and history as the roles of tobacco and sugar, civil society, religion and law, national identity, intellectual and political dynamics during the Republic, music, and literature.
(This volume is part of the Bildner Western Hemisphere Book Series)

Integración Económica y Democratización: América Latina y Cuba Edited by Pilar Álamos, Mauricio A. Font, José Augusto Guilhon Albuquerque, Francisco León
Essays exploring Cuba's relations with other Latin American countries and institutions, its regional economic integration, the environment for change within Cuba, the prospects for democratization and the environment for international insertion at the dawn of the 21st century.
(This volume is part of the Bildner Western Hemisphere Book Series)

Reforming Brazil
Edited by Mauricio A. Font and Anthony Peter Spanakos
A thought-provoking examination of important issues facing Brazil today, from privatization and agrarian reform to entrepreneurial programs and hemispheric integration. Written by 11 Brazilianist scholars from a range of disciplines and intellectual traditions, the book offers compelling new insights for international policymakers, economists and scholars of Brazil.

This volume is part of the Bildner Western Hemisphere Book Series

Cuba Today: Continuity and Change since the 'Periodo Especial'
Edited by Mauricio A. Font
with the assistance of Scott Larson and Daniel Xuereb
Online collection of papers and proceedings from the homonymous symposium, held October 4-5, 2004 at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. It features essays on a broad range of issues facing contemporary Cuba, including changing perceptions, emergent perspectives, economic transformations, immigration and ethnic identity, and evolving institutions. (Online publication)

Brief bulletin featuring the Bildner Center’s research, special projects, conferences, book series, and other highlights in the early 2000s. Contains an effective update of the Center’s recent and past accomplishments as well as future undertakings.