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La Americana
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directed by Nicholas Bruckman, fl. 2008 and John Mattiuzzi, fl. 2006; produced by Nicholas Bruckman, fl. 2008 and Jesse Thomas, fl. 2008, People's Television (New York, NY: The Cinema Guild, 2008), 1 hour 6 mins
When nine-year-old Carla suffers a life-threatening accident, her mother, Carmen, must leave her behind and make the dangerous and illegal journey from Bolivia to the U.S., where she hopes to earn enough to save her daughter's life. Working in New York to support Carla's medical needs, Carmen struggles in vain to...
directed by Nicholas Bruckman, fl. 2008 and John Mattiuzzi, fl. 2006; produced by Nicholas Bruckman, fl. 2008 and Jesse Thomas, fl. 2008, People's Television (New York, NY: The Cinema Guild, 2008), 1 hour 6 mins
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Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in Bangladesh
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written by Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury; edited by Thomas Blom Hansen, 1958- (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019), 265 page(s)
Few places are as politically precarious as Bangladesh, even fewer as crowded. Its 57,000 or so square miles are some of the world's most inhabited. Often described as a definitive case of the bankruptcy of postcolonial governance, it is also one of the poorest among the most densely populated nations. In spite of...
written by Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury; edited by Thomas Blom Hansen, 1958- (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019), 265 page(s)
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