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Barbara Weinstein
Yale University, Ph.D., 1980
Email:
bw52@nyu.edu
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Areas of Research/Interest: Modern Latin America, Brazil, labor history, slavery and emancipation, race and gender, regionalism and nationalism.
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Select Publications:
For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in Sao Paulo, 1920-1964. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1966.
The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983.
Senior Editor, Hispanic American Historical Review, 2002-2007.
Contributing Editor for Latin America, The Encyclopedia of World History, Peter N. Stearns, general editor, 6th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
"'They don't even look like women workers.' Femininity and Class in Twentieth Century Latin America," ILWCH 69 (Spring 2006): 161-76.
"Slavery, Citizenship, and National Identity in Brazil and the United States South," in Don H. Doyle and Marco Antonio Pamplona, eds. Nationalism in the New World. Athens, Ga.: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2006: 248-271.
"Inventing the Mulher Paulista: Politics, Rebellion, and the Gendering of Brazilian Regional Identities," Journal of Women's History 18 (2006): 22-49.
"History without a Cause? Grand Narratives, World History, and the Postcolonial Dilemma," International Review of Social History 50 (2005): 71-93.
(with Daryle Williams), "Vargas Morto: The Death and Life of a Brazilian Statesman," in Lyman Johnson, ed., Death, Dismemberment and Memory: Body Politics in Latin America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004, 273-315.
"Making Workers Masculine: The (Re) Construction of Male Worker Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil," in K. Hagemann, S. Dudink and J. Tosh, eds., Masculinity in Politics and War: Rewritings of Modern History Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004, 276-294.
"Racializing Regional Difference: Sao Paulo vs. Brazil, 1932," in Nancy Appelbaum, Anne Macpherson and Karin Rosemblatt, eds., Race and Nation in Modern Latin America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, 237-262.
"The Decline of the Progressive Planter and the Rise of Subaltern Agency: SHifting Narratives of Slave Emancipation in Brazil," in Gilbert Joseph, ed., Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History: Essays from the North. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001, 81-101.
"Buddy, Can You Spare a Paradigm?: Reflections on Generational Shifts and Latin American History," The Americas 57 (2001): 453-466.
"The Discourse of Technical Competence: Strategies of Authority and Power in Industrializing Brazil," Political Power and Social Theory 12 (1998): 137-175.
"A Pesquisa sobre Identidade e Cidadania nos EUA: da Nova Historia Social a Nova Historia Cultural," Revista Brasileira de Historia 35 (1998): 227- 246.
"Unskilled Worker, Skilled Housewife: Constructing the Working-Class Woman in Sao Paulo, Brazil," in John D. French and Daniel James, eds., The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers. Durham: Duke University Press, 1977, 72-99.
"Lucia: Inventing Women's History on Film," in Donald F. Stevens, ed., Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1997, 123-142.
"The Model Worker of the Paulista Industrialists: the Operario Padrao' Campaign, 1964-85," Radical History Review 61 (1995): 92-123.
"The Industrialists, the State and the Issues of Worker Training and Social Services in Brazil, 1930-1950," Hispanic American Historical Review, 70 (1990): 379-404.
"Capital Penetration and Problems of Labor Control in the Amazon Rubber Trade," Radical History Review 27 (1983): 121-140.
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