De/Colonization in the Americas: Continuity and Change / De/Colonización en las Américas: Cambios y continuidades

In the Americas, colonialism informs nearly all aspects of life. From European invasion onward it established a durable matrix of power based on gender relations, racism and ethnic classifications that defined white and criollo male superiority over the indigenous and 'Afro American' as well as over Asian, Jewish, Arabic, Muslim and Hindu populations, peoples and nations, in spite of the ambiguity of ethnic and racial frontiers. Moreover, in recent times, the thrust to decolonize has become a major aspiration that implies the rescue and re-evaluation of native and subordinated cultures.

Colonialism has deeply informed cultural production and popular culture in the Americas. Jazz, blues, rock music and hip-hop have given voice to the experience of ethnic and racial exclusion and Latin America's boom literature is informed by 'magic' indigenous-colonial cosmovisions. Ethnic and racial struggles against quota systems and/or auto-ethnographic media productions are integral parts of the fight against the negative aspects of the colonial legacy.

This volume adopts a broad concept of colonialism, which refers not only to a specific historical period but also to a relational mode that creates asymmetric power relations and modes of exploitation that persist and that are constantly renewed but also contested. Rather than trying to give a comprehensive account of colonial and decolonial dynamics, this collection illustrates the centrality of colonialism in the history of the Americas and the wide range of areas in which decolonizing efforts and postcolonial processes continue to impact the Western Hemisphere.

CONTENTS

HEIDRUN MÖRTL, JOSEF RAAB, AND OLAF KALTMEIER
Introduction: Colonialism, Coloniality, and Decolonization in the Americas .............. 1

I. COLONIALISM/COLONIALISMO

DONNA J. NASH
Moving to a New Place: The Archaeological Study of Migration
in the Ancient Andes .................................................................................................. 25

OLAF KALTMEIER
"Para que quede memoria del y de los dichos sus serbizios"-
Un escudo de armas para el cacique Sancho Hacho: Comunicación político-visual
en el entrecruzamiento del temprano Estado colonial en Ecuador ............................. 45

INES LINKE
In Search of the New World: (Re)inventing Bahia .................................................... 59

RUTH Y. HSU
Rousseau and Emile in Karen Tei Yamashita's Brazil-Maru:
The Intertexts of Colonies, Utopia, and Freedom ...................................................... 75

ROBERT KEITH COLLINS
Toward an Inter-American Study of African Transculturalization
in Native America ...................................................................................................... 91

JOSEF RAAB
Colonial and Decolonial Thinking:
Race Discourses in Literatures of the Americas ....................................................... 103

II. COLONIALITY/COLONIALIDAD

OLGA RIES
El mestizaje como trauma: sexualidad y violencia en los discursos
(supra)nacionales en Sudamérica en el siglo XIX .................................................... 121

ROCÍO ROSERO JÁCOME
Montalvo el disidente y Mera el resistente:
Discursos críticos sobre religión y política en el Ecuador, 1860-1890 ..................... 135

BÁRBARA SILVA
The Virgin and the Observatory: Astronomy, Modernity,
and the U.S. Mills Expedition in Chile .................................................................... 149

MATTHEW N. JOHNSTON
Native