The Brazilian Photographs of Genevieve Naylor: 1940-1943 by Robert M.

Levine
Review by: Kenneth Maxwell
Foreign Affairs, Vol. 77, No. 4 (Jul. - Aug., 1998), p. 132
Published by: Council on Foreign Relations
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American as demonized The Brazilian Genevi?ve
community by Photographs of
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Nay
material and cultural success of the Cuban levine. Durham: Duke University

diaspora has yet to force a revision of its Press, 1998,155 pp. $59.95 (paper, $24.95).
notions of what Latin Americans are Levine, director of the Latin American
at the has
capable of achieving without surrendering Program University ofMiami,
their own identity, given the right eco brought together
a remarkable
pictorial
nomic and legal circumstances. He also record of Brazil in the
early 1940s. He has
criticizes the image of Latin America as a selected a hundred of the most evocative
which exists "in a
revolutionary hotbed, images captured by Genevi?ve Naylor,
kind of ideological cocoon" artificially who later became well known through her
maintained on "a life support system made work in fashion and as Eleanor Roosevelt's

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Von Bertrab, who holds a Ph.D. in eco ness, Rockefeller sent an
extraordinary
nomics from the University of Texas at group of Americans to Brazil,
including
Austin, was recruited from the Mexican Orson Welles, Walt Disney, and Errol
sector to coordinate Mexico's sent to create
private Flynn. Naylor, photographs
nafta team'sWashington for propaganda purposes, soon broke free
negotiating
of the official not
offices. The Mexicans quickly learned restrictions, portraying
the best advice money could the elites but also rural peasants, reli
they needed only
buy in order to navigate the intricacies of gious festivals, workers crammed onto Rio
and to trams, and Brazilians of all races.
Congress galvanize public support. ordinary
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mer staffers, and govern
congressional
ment officials, as well as assiduously court
and Former Soviet
ing the U.S. Hispanic The
of the debate
community.
nevertheless came
Republics
acrimony ROBERT LEGVOLD
as a shock. Yet as nafta took effect on

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an
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Mexico suffered a traumatic currency de Who Built the Soviet Regime, by
valuation. so well how dmitri voLKOGONOV. NewYork:
Perhaps by learning
to work the American system, Free Press, 1998,528 pp. $30.00.
political
these Mexican technocrats too little the military man who
paid Volkogonov,
attention to what was
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