Growing up American: how Vietnamese children adapt to life in the United States

Resumen: El artáculo estudia el avance de las dictaduras del Cono Sur durante los años sesenta y setenta, tomando los casos de Brasil, Uruguay y Chile. Se estudia el mapa polático regional y cómo distintas experiencias que no optaron por las armas pero proponáan proyectos de transformación constituyeron un motivo de preocupación para las derechas locales y los Estados Unidos: João Goulart en Brasil (1961-1964), Juan Velasco Alvarado en Perú (1968-1975), Juan José Torres en Bolivia (1970-1971), la Unidad Popular en Chile (1970-1973), la creación y el crecimiento del Frente Amplio en Uruguay (1971) y el retorno del peronismo en 1973. El artáculo también estudia los recorridos de la izquierda a través de los paáses del Cono Sur, conforme se afianzaba el cerco represivo de las dictaduras. Palabras clave: Dictaduras, Cono Sur, Plan Cóndor, Izquierdas. THE FENCING OF THE SOUTHERN CONE DICTATORSHIPS: Brazil, Uruguay And ChileAbstract: The article analyzes the dictatorship in the Cono Sur, during the sixties and seventies, especially Brazil, Uruguay and Chile. It examines the regional politic map and the lefts experiences that represented a warning to the rights and the United States: João Goulart in Brazil (1961-1964), Juan Velasco Alvarado in Peru (1968-1975), Juan José Torres in Bolivia (1970-1971), the Unidad Popular in Chile (1970-1973), the emergence and growing up the Frente Amplio in Uruguay (1971) and the return to the peronismo in 1973. The article, also analyzes the left paths through the Cono Sur countries under the advancing of the dictatorships. Keywords: Dictatorships, Southern Cone, Plan Cóndor, Lefts.

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Book Review: Susan Neiman, Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

NETSOL New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences ◽

10.24819/netsol2021.06 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 74-77

Author(s):

Iñaki Tofiño Quesada

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

White Woman ◽

Jewish Woman ◽

The United States ◽

Philosophical Analysis ◽

First Person ◽

Growing Up ◽

The South

Learning from the Germans. Race and the Memory of Evil examines German efforts to atone for Nazi atrocities and identifies lessons on how the United States might come to terms with its legacy of slavery and racism. Divided into three parts (German lessons, Southern discomfort, and Setting things straight), the book brings together historical and philosophical analysis; interviews with politicians, activists, and contemporary witnesses in Germany and the United States; and Neiman’s own first-person observations as a white woman growing up in the South and a Jewish woman who has lived for almost three decades in Berlin.

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