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Title: U.S. President John F. Kennedy addresses a formal dinner in Bogata
Creator: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Date: 1961-12-18
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: U.S. President John F. Kennedy states that the leaders of Latin America must now accept new responsibilities.

Title: U.S. Presidents Barack Obama talks about the benefits of trade with Latin American countries
Creator: Obama, Barack
Date: 2012-04-13
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: President Obama speaks about the benefits of trade with Latin America. Obama says the U.S. will be stronger if it exports more goods, especially to countries in South and Central America. His remarks are made at the Port of Tampa - Ports America, Tampa, Florida as he prepares to depart for Colombia to take part in the Summit of the Americas.

Title: U.S. Undersecretary of State Langhorne Motley testifies before House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee
Creator: Motley, Langhorne A.
Date: 1984-05-02
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Undersecretary of State Langhorne A. Motley testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee to defend the United States policy towards Latin America. Motley responds to questions about military exercises in Honduras.

Title: Interview of author Michelle Martinez
Creator: Campbell, Michele, 1962-
Date: 2005-02-25
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Michelle Martinez, author of the crime novel "Most wanted," talks about the issues faced by Latin Americans in their home country versus what they face in the United States. She describes her family and education, graduation form Harvard Law School, and her professional endeavors. Martinez discusses the story line of her book, what motivated her to write, and how she brought her experiences from the prosecutor's office to bear on her writing. She describes her writing as an opportunity to...
Show moreMichelle Martinez, author of the crime novel "Most wanted," talks about the issues faced by Latin Americans in their home country versus what they face in the United States. She describes her family and education, graduation form Harvard Law School, and her professional endeavors. Martinez discusses the story line of her book, what motivated her to write, and how she brought her experiences from the prosecutor's office to bear on her writing. She describes her writing as an opportunity to explore her own cultural heritage. Martinez discusses the art of writing and talks about what she reads. Martinez is interviewed by Diana Rivera at the 2005 Left Coast Crime Conference held in El Paso, Texas.
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Title: Chilean essayist, novelist, professor, and poet Marjorie Agosín talks about her life, family and experiences in Chile and the United States
Creator: Agosín, Marjorie
Date: 2010-11-30
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Chilean essayist, novelist, professor, and poet Marjorie Agosín speaks at the Michigan State University Main Library about her life, family and experiences in Chile and the United States. Professor Agosin discusses how being a Jewish Latin American has influenced her writing and relates the history of Jewish dislocation and the migration of her own family throughout the world. She also explains her development as a writer and discusses why she uses memoirs, poetry and novels to tell the...
Show moreChilean essayist, novelist, professor, and poet Marjorie Agosín speaks at the Michigan State University Main Library about her life, family and experiences in Chile and the United States. Professor Agosin discusses how being a Jewish Latin American has influenced her writing and relates the history of Jewish dislocation and the migration of her own family throughout the world. She also explains her development as a writer and discusses why she uses memoirs, poetry and novels to tell the story of Jews in Latin America living among German Nazi expatriates. Agosín reads several of her poems that illustrate her experiences. Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, Associate Professor of Colonial Latin American Studies at MSU, introduces Agosín. MSU librarian Mary Jo Zeter moderates. Sponsors of the event include the Michigan State University Libraries, MSU's Jewish Studies Program, and the MSU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Part of the MSU Libraries' Colloquia Series.
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Title: JFK address to the nation
Creator: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Date: 1964
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: John F. Kennedy speaks on the Alliance for Progress. Includes the voice of Chet Huntley.

Title: U.S. President George Bush announces the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative in the East Room at the White House
Creator: Bush, George, 1924-2018
Date: 1990-06-27
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Speech to Latin American political and economic leaders discusses trade. Announces the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative, whose three pillars are Trade, Investment, and Debt.

Title: Jeane Kirkpatrick addresses the United Nations press corps
Creator: Kirkpatrick, Jeane J.
Date: 1983-04-26
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Kirkpatrick calls for an end of redundant and expensive bureaucracy in the U.N. and discusses democracy and tyranny in Latin America.

Title: Jimmy Carter speaks upon departing for Venezuela, Brazil, Nigeria and Liberia
Creator: Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
Date: 1978-03-28
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Carter says the trip underscores U.S. ability and willingness to deal with change in a diverse world, attacking problems of economic justice, human rights, fairer relations among nations, resolution of possible conflicts.

Title: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson speaks about his South American trip
Creator: Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965
Date: 1961
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Ambassador Stevenson speaks about the changing social structure of South and Latin America, the Bay of Pigs incident, the view of South and Latin America on the U.S., the appeal of Communism for South and Latin Americans, and propaganda from Cuba to South and Latin America.

Title: U.S. President Ronald Reagan's thirty-fifth presidential press conference
Creator: Reagan, Ronald
Date: 1986-04-08
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Press conference opens with a statement on the federal budget. Other topics discussed were U.S. participation in Central American internal politics, the possibilty of further military engagemnts in Libya, Muammar Qaddafi, and a June summit talk with Gorbachev. A woman asks Reagan to come to Canada to receive an award from an international bodybuilders association.

Title: Fireside chat. 1941 May 27
Creator: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Date: 1941-05-27
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chat defining position of U.S. on national defense and alliances with Pan American republics.

Title: U.S. President George Bush holds a press conference in the White House on reduction of nuclear weapons in West Germany and answers questions from reporters
Creator: Bush, George, 1924-2018
Date: 1990-05-03
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: President George H. W. Bush holds a news conference and begins with a statement about the reduction of short-range nuclear ground-to-ground missiles to zero in West Germany, as well as other ground-based artillery installations, and answer reporters questions on a myriad of subjects, including these: U.S. hostages, Eastern European self-determination, interest rates, the Savings and Loan bailout, Gorbachev's perilous domestic position, United States policy toward China, and drug policy....
Show morePresident George H. W. Bush holds a news conference and begins with a statement about the reduction of short-range nuclear ground-to-ground missiles to zero in West Germany, as well as other ground-based artillery installations, and answer reporters questions on a myriad of subjects, including these: U.S. hostages, Eastern European self-determination, interest rates, the Savings and Loan bailout, Gorbachev's perilous domestic position, United States policy toward China, and drug policy. Journalist Helen Thomas asks the first question.
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Title: Hammering against the reds : how that AFL-CIO fought communism in Latin America through urban planning
Creator: Herod, Andrew, 1964-
Date: 2019-04-05
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Andrew Herod, professor of Geography at the University of Georgia, delivers a talk entitled, "Hammering against the reds: How that AFL-CIO fought communism in Latin America through urban planning." Herod talks about the relationship between the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and the U.S. government in Latin America throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Herod says that the U.S. government used local labor unions to promote capitalism and democracy...
Show moreAndrew Herod, professor of Geography at the University of Georgia, delivers a talk entitled, "Hammering against the reds: How that AFL-CIO fought communism in Latin America through urban planning." Herod talks about the relationship between the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and the U.S. government in Latin America throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Herod says that the U.S. government used local labor unions to promote capitalism and democracy and to stop the spread of communism. Herod also says that democratic and capitalistic ideology was encouraged by the construction of social spaces such as housing units, schools, community centers which promoted social interaction. He answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by John P. Beck, Michigan State University professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations.
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Title: Marginality, mass communication and modernization in five Latin American communities
Creator: Arias, Carlos L.
Date: 1969
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Protestant agricultural mission programs in Latin America and their relationship to agricultural development
Creator: Konyha, Marvin E.
Date: 1967
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: MISTRAL Y EL MAR MATERNIDAD CUIR, NATURALEZA E INTIMIDAD EN LA POESÍA DE GABRIELA MISTRAL
Creator: Arimany, Vivian
Date: 2022
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Esta tesis plantea que a través de la naturaleza (el agua, las plantas, etc.) la voz femenina en los poemas de Gabriela Mistral “Meciendo” de Ternura (1924), las dos primeras secciones de “Canciones en el mar” y “El suplicio” de Desolación (1922) al igual que “La otra” de Lagar (1924), alude a nuevas maneras de encarnar la maternidad y los roles de género. Se puede leer maternidad cuir al igual que un desafío de los discursos patriarcales sobre la feminidad y la mujer, y también se retratan...
Show moreEsta tesis plantea que a través de la naturaleza (el agua, las plantas, etc.) la voz femenina en los poemas de Gabriela Mistral “Meciendo” de Ternura (1924), las dos primeras secciones de “Canciones en el mar” y “El suplicio” de Desolación (1922) al igual que “La otra” de Lagar (1924), alude a nuevas maneras de encarnar la maternidad y los roles de género. Se puede leer maternidad cuir al igual que un desafío de los discursos patriarcales sobre la feminidad y la mujer, y también se retratan diferentes maneras de vivir la feminidad. Asimismo, existe una búsqueda de la intimidad, que se define a partir de las propuestas de Francisco Cruces y Lauren Berlant, como una experiencia que puede suceder tanto entre dos cuerpos autónomos como en la relación personal con uno mismo. La naturaleza es un nudo conector entre estos poemas porque funciona como trasfondo escénico, así como un vehículo para que la voz poética rompa los esquemas sociales tradicionales con el fin de vivir la feminidad y la maternidad de manera alternativa a los dictámenes patriarcales.
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Title: Refractions of “Doing Good” : The State, Subjectivity, and NGO Health Workers in Maya Guatemala
Creator: Martínez-Hume, Anna Christina
Date: 2021
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: On a global scale, NGOs have played an important role in development and addressing healthcare inequities over the last several decades. Yet in recent years, the work of NGOs is continuously impacted by processes of socio-cultural, political, and economic change in increasingly post-neoliberal contexts. NGOs working within a social justice framework for health are a unique area to examine this shift as they continue to operate in the ebb and flow of changing fields of social power. The...
Show moreOn a global scale, NGOs have played an important role in development and addressing healthcare inequities over the last several decades. Yet in recent years, the work of NGOs is continuously impacted by processes of socio-cultural, political, and economic change in increasingly post-neoliberal contexts. NGOs working within a social justice framework for health are a unique area to examine this shift as they continue to operate in the ebb and flow of changing fields of social power. The Guatemalan context has provided a salient example of this process, as changes in NGO-state relationships, health policy, and an increasingly pro-impunity state that protects perpetuators of corruption, have steadily impacted the subjectivities, resources, and practices of those working for NGOs. This dissertation explores the changing socio-political healthcare climate in Guatemala and its effects on the abilities of NGO workers to continue serving the needs of marginalized Indigenous Maya communities in the intersecting fields of health and social justice. Subjectivity is a useful theoretical framework for understanding how this larger shift in socio-political context impacts the actions, perceptions, and experiences of NGO workers involved in health intervention. This dissertation is guided by the notion that subjectivity is the site in which larger socio-cultural, economic, and political forces shaping social policy can likewise be seen to shape actors immersed in the ramifications of policy change. I propose that subjectivity is an amalgamation of individually, institutionally, and politically formed subjectivities. NGO worker’s subjective realities are individually formed through their unique personal experiences and identities; institutionally formed through the structure, history, and agenda of their organizations and funding institutions; and politically formed through their intrinsic and fluctuating relationship with the state and government institutions. This dissertation presents findings from a research project conducted over several summers between 2014 and 2019 exploring NGO workers’ experiences in health intervention from multiple NGOs in Guatemala. Utilizing semi-structured interviews, participant observation, textual and discourse analysis, this dissertation examines how NGO workers continue to serve Indigenous Maya communities despite dramatic shifts in state supports for NGOs. This work discusses how factors such as identity, indigeneity, and institutional legacy can impact the health interventions and community activism implemented in Indigenous communities. NGO workers navigate both their personal subjectivity as Indigenous individuals with unique connections to the Maya community, and an institutional subjectivity as actors immersed in NGO rhetorics of development. These competing subjectivities yielded profoundly gendered understandings of empowerment and feminist solidarity within approaches for health intervention. NGO workers also possess institutional and political subjectivities that are defined by a complex relationship with the state. Health activism in the context of NGOs can be transmuted over time through contractual relationships with the state whereby bureaucratic policies that place value on managerialism over social justice, thoroughly shift the nature and content of health intervention. Ultimately, I argue there is a fundamental link between non-governmental and government institutions, as NGO workers’ political subjectivities are continuously shaped by politically driven policy change, authoritative discourse, and popular belief. It is through this fundamental link with the state where regimes of truth manifest that can ultimately manipulate the actions of NGOs, refracting their perceptions of “doing good” for the most marginalized.
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Title: "LA GRAN CEGUEDAD DE ESTA MISERABLE GENTE : " VIOLENCIA CULTURAL Y NEGOCIACIONES DISCURSIVAS EN EL MANUSCRITO DE HUAROCHIRI (c. 1608)
Creator: Berrios-Campos, Claudia
Date: 2021
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Esta tesis examina el manuscrito quechua del siglo XVII conocido como Manuscrito de Huarochirí como un ejemplo de una violenta zona de contacto en la cual las creencias y conocimientos culturales, ideológicos y religiosos europeos confrontaron los modos indígenas de pensar, conocer y preservar de la memoria y las historias locales y globales. En este contexto, observo los intentos europeos de controlar las creencias y las respuestas indígenas (asimilación, negociación, resistencia) a las...
Show moreEsta tesis examina el manuscrito quechua del siglo XVII conocido como Manuscrito de Huarochirí como un ejemplo de una violenta zona de contacto en la cual las creencias y conocimientos culturales, ideológicos y religiosos europeos confrontaron los modos indígenas de pensar, conocer y preservar de la memoria y las historias locales y globales. En este contexto, observo los intentos europeos de controlar las creencias y las respuestas indígenas (asimilación, negociación, resistencia) a las imposiciones españolas cristianas e imperiales. De esta manera, los colonizadores españoles y extirpadores de idolatrías lideraron una guerra con el propósito de alcanzar un poder simbólico mientras agentes indígenas tales como curacas, interpretes, escribas y secretarios intentaban mantener vivo el saber indígena. A través de una investigación interdisciplinaria entre la historia social, la lingüística, el pensamiento político, los estudios religiosos y un enfoque decolonial, esta tesis traza la colonización europea a través del desarrollo de la extirpación de idolatrías en el Arzobispado de Lima durante los primeros cincuenta años del siglo XVII como un proceso que buscó controlar los sistemas de creencias andinos y sus discursos. Esta colonización trasatlántica de imágenes, símbolos y prácticas intentó deshacerse de la gnoseología indígena y los principios sociales nativos, tales como la reciprocidad, el tinkuy (encuentro, confluencia) o el pachakutiy (la inversión del mundo). De esta manera, manifestaciones de esta guerra de símbolos alcanzaron el poder imperial más allá del Atlántico, pero no fueron percibidas como amenazas inmediatas. Sin embargo, la cuestión de la recepción de estas ideas, así como la idea de una gnoseología andina, todavía queda por ser estudiada. Específicamente, estudio ejemplos textuales de una violencia cultural, ideológica y simbólica hacia los modos indígenas de conocimiento y saber. El pensamiento y el conocimiento indígena se encuentra arraigado en estas historias y tradiciones, las cuales han sido leídas en el pasado como un discurso mítico. Mi investigación confronta la naturaleza problemática de esta lectura a través de un enfoque decolonial que considera las dinámicas discursivas y culturales entre las comunidades indígenas y los colonizadores europeos como un producto de la colonialidad del saber impuesta por el proceso de colonización del continente americano. Presto atención a estas dinámicas culturales como procesos de negociación discursivos con el objetivo de adquirir un poder simbólico que permitirá a los sujetos indígenas colonizados subsistir y resistir en un contexto (post)colonial. Mi tesis abre la puerta a la mirada imperial enfrentada a la diversidad en las formas indígenas de entender el mundo.
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Title: “PALABRA EMPEÑADA” : LA CONFIGURACIÓN INTELECTUAL DE GABRIELA MISTRAL A TRAVÉS DE SUS CARTAS, 1914-1957
Creator: Romero, Lau
Date: 2022
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Gabriela Mistral (1889 – 1957) fue la primera mujer latinoamericana en obtener el Premio Nobel de Literatura, en 1945. Su reconocimiento como una fue tardío en su país natal, Chile, donde recibió el Premio Nacional de Literatura en 1951. Esta tesis investiga la correspondencia privada de Gabriela Mistral durante el período 1914 a 1957 para buscar otra explicación al fenómeno mistraliano fuera de su innegable talento. En otras palabras, esta investigación se centra en aquellas estrategias que...
Show moreGabriela Mistral (1889 – 1957) fue la primera mujer latinoamericana en obtener el Premio Nobel de Literatura, en 1945. Su reconocimiento como una fue tardío en su país natal, Chile, donde recibió el Premio Nacional de Literatura en 1951. Esta tesis investiga la correspondencia privada de Gabriela Mistral durante el período 1914 a 1957 para buscar otra explicación al fenómeno mistraliano fuera de su innegable talento. En otras palabras, esta investigación se centra en aquellas estrategias que la escritora despliega dentro del campo cultural tanto chileno como internacional (Pierre Bourdieu 1990; Toril Moi 1999; Gonzalo Catalán 1985) para asegurar su sitio dentro del mismo, expandir sus redes intelectuales y afectivas, y proteger su continuidad a través de la obtención de capital simbólico. La organización de la tesis, compuesta en cuatro capítulos, gira en torno a “nudos” en los cuales la trayectoria profesional de Mistral –y su capital acumulado– se pone en riesgo y/o se refuerzan a través del establecimiento de alianzas, amistades y favores. De allí también que la hipótesis principal se organice en torno a la “palabra empeñada”, como moneda de intercambio que posibilita no sólo diversas performances por parte de la autora, sino también por parte de sus interlocutores.
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