Embers of the Past

Javier Sanjines C

• Hardcover | 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

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

Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies

Mary Pat Brady

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• A train station becomes a police station; lands held sacred by Apaches and Mexicanos are turned into commercial and residential zones; freeway constru... 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

Hall of Mirrors

Laura A Lewis

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• Through an examination of caste in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico, Hall of Mirrors explores the construction of hierarchy and difference in... Lees meer

The Darker Side of Western Modernity

Walter D Mignolo

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• 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

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

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

Modern Blackness

Deborah A Thomas

• Hardcover | 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

El Alto, Rebel City

Sian Lazar

• Hardcover | 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

Disrupting Savagism

Arturo J Aldama

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• Colonial discourse in the United States has tended to criminalize, pathologize, and depict as savage not only Native Americans but Mexican immigrants,... Lees meer

Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro

Gloria Anzaldua

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• 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

Doña María's Story

Daniel James

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• In this remarkable book historian Daniel James presents the gripping, poignant life-story of Doña María Roldán, a woman who lived and worked for six d... 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

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

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

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

Black Nationalism in the New World

Robert Carr

• Hardcover | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• From nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Indepe... Lees meer

Muddied Waters

Nancy P Appelbaum

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• 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

Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics

Andrea Giunta

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• The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to en... Lees meer

The Time of Liberty

Peter Guardino

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• Between 1750 and 1850 Spanish American politics underwent a dramatic cultural shift as monarchist colonies gave way to independent states based at lea... Lees meer

Peasants on Plantations

Vincent Peloso

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• After the 1854 abolition of slavery in Peru, a new generation of plantation owners turned to a system of peasant tenantry to maintain cotton productio... 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

Nightwatch

Orin Starn

• Hardcover | 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