Modern Blackness

Deborah A Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• Modern Blackness is a rich ethnographic exploration of Jamaican identity in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first. Analyzing nationalism, ... Lees meer

Images at War

Serge Gruzinski

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• "If colonial America was the melting pot of modernity, it was because it was also a fabulous laboratory of images. . . . Just as much as speech and wr... Lees meer

The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader brings together thirty-six field-defining essays by the most prominent theorists of Latin American cultural... Lees meer

Another Face of Empire

Daniel Castro

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• The Spanish cleric Bartolomé de Las Casas is a key figure in the history of Spain's conquest of the Americas. Las Casas condemned the torture and murd... Lees meer

Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro

Gloria Anzaldua

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• Light in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Focusing on aes... Lees meer

The Darker Side of Western Modernity

Walter D Mignolo

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ide... Lees meer

The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• Sharing a postrevolutionary sympathy with the struggles of the poor, the contributors to this first comprehensive collection of writing on subalternit... Lees meer

El Alto, Rebel City

Sian Lazar

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• Combining anthropological methods and theories with political philosophy, Sian Lazar analyzes everyday practices and experiences of citizenship in a s... Lees meer

Coloniality at Large

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• Postcolonial theory has developed mainly in the U.S. academy, and it has focused chiefly on nineteenth-century and twentieth-century colonization and ... Lees meer

Muddied Waters

Nancy P Appelbaum

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• Colombia's western Coffee Region is renowned for the whiteness of its inhabitants, who are often described as respectable pioneer families who domesti... Lees meer

Embers of the Past

Javier Sanjines C.

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• Embers of the Past is a powerful critique of historicism and modernity. Javier Sanjinés C. analyzes the conflict between the cultures and movements of... Lees meer

The Politics of Memory

Joanne Rappaport

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• How does a culture in which writing is not a prominent feature create historical tradition? In The Politics of Memory , Joanne Rappaport answers this ... Lees meer

Indian Given

María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

• Hardcover | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• In Indian Given María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo addresses current racialized violence and resistance in Mexico and the United States with a genealogy ... Lees meer

Writing across Cultures

Angel Rama

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• Ángel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of th... Lees meer

Shining and Other Paths

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• Shining and Other Paths offers the first systematic account of the social experiences at the heart of the war waged between Shining Path and the Peruv... Lees meer

Blood and Fire

Mary Roldán

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• Between 1946 and 1966a surge of violence in Colombia left 200,000 dead in one of the worst conflicts the western hemisphere has ever experienced. the ... Lees meer

To Die in this Way

Jeffrey L Gould

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This Way reveals the continu... Lees meer

Domination without Dominance

Gonzalo Lamana

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• Offering an alternative narrative of the conquest of the Incas, Gonzalo Lamana both examines and shifts away from the colonial imprint that still perm... Lees meer

Imperial Subjects

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with fixed categories of race and ethnicity. As Imperial Subjects demonstrates, fr... Lees meer

Telling to Live

Latina Feminist Group

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• Telling to Live embodies the vision that compelled Latina feminists to engage their differences and find common ground. Its contributors reflect varie... Lees meer

Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro

Gloria Anzaldua

• Hardcover | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• Light in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Focusing on aes... Lees meer

Against War

Nelson Maldonado-Torres

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• Nelson Maldonado-Torres argues that European modernity has become inextricable from the experience of the warrior and conqueror. In Against War , he d... Lees meer

Everynight Life

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life . The contributors interpret how Latin/o cul... Lees meer

Nightwatch

Orin Starn

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• Organized in the mid-1970s as a means of communal protection against livestock rustling and general thievery in Peru's rugged northern mountains, the ... Lees meer