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Darker Side of Western Modernity
Global Futures, Decolonial Options
Häftad, 2011
333 kr
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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 ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that …
Blood of Guatemala
A History of Race and Nation
Av Greg Grandin
Häftad, 2000
341 kr
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Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In …
Modern Inquisitions
Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World
Häftad, 2004
317 kr
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Trying to understand how “civilized” people could embrace fascism, Hannah Arendt searched for a precedent in modern Western history. She found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bureaucratic rule, racial superiority, and appeals to rationality. Modern Inquisitions takes Arendt’s …
From Two Republics to One Divided
Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru
Av Mark Thurner
Häftad, 1997
519 kr
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From Two Republics to One Divided examines Peru’s troubled transition from colonial viceroyalty to postcolonial republic from the local perspective of Andean peasant politics. Thurner’s reading of the Andean peasantry’s engagement and disengagement with the postcolonial state challenges …
Wandering Peoples
Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700–1850
Häftad, 1997
457 kr
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Wandering Peoples is a chronicle of cultural resiliency, colonial relations, and trespassed frontiers in the borderlands of a changing Spanish empire. Focusing on the native subjects of Sonora in Northwestern Mexico, Cynthia Radding explores the social process of peasant class formation and the …
Everynight Life
Culture and Dance in Latin/o America
Av Celeste Fraser Delgado, José Esteban Muñoz
Häftad, 1997
651 kr
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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 culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and …
Politics of Memory
Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes
Häftad, 1998
399 kr
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How does a culture in which writing is not a prominent feature create historical tradition? In The Politics of Memory, Joanne Rappaport answers this question by tracing the past three centuries of the intellectual history of the Nasa-a community in the Colombian Andes. Focusing on the Nasa …
Tropical Multiculturalism
A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture
Av Robert Stam
Häftad, 1997
345 kr
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Tropical Multiculturalism provides a major study of race in Brazilian culture through the most complete critical analysis of Brazilian cinema in any language. Focusing on representations of multicultural themes involving Euro- and Afro-Brazilians, other immigrants, and indigenous peoples in the …
To Die in This Way
Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965
Häftad, 1998
563 kr
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Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This Way reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially “forgotten” indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that mestizaje-a cultural homogeneity that has …
Shining and Other Paths
War and Society in Peru, 1980-1995
Häftad, 1998
651 kr
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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 Peruvian military during the 1980s and early 1990s. Confronting and untangling the many myths and enigmas that surround the war and the wider history of …
Peasants on Plantations
Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru
Inbunden, 1999
1312 kr
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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 production through the use of cheap labor. In Peasants on Plantations Vincent C. Peloso analyzes the changing social and economic relationships governing the …
Peasants on Plantations
Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru
Häftad, 1999
579 kr
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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 production through the use of cheap labor. In Peasants on Plantations Vincent C. Peloso analyzes the changing social and economic relationships governing the …
Smoldering Ashes
Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840
Häftad, 1999
651 kr
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In Smoldering Ashes Charles F. Walker interprets the end of Spanish domination in Peru and that country’s shaky transition to an autonomous republican state. Placing the indigenous population at the center of his analysis, Walker shows how the Indian peasants played a crucial and previously …
Nightwatch
The Politics of Protest in the Andes
Av Orin Starn
Häftad, 1999
387 kr
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Organized in the mid-1970s as a means of communal protection against livestock rustling and general thievery in Peru’s rugged northern mountains, the rondas campesinas (peasants who make the rounds) grew into an entire system of peasant justice and one of the most significant Andean social …
Indigenous Mestizos
The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991
Inbunden, 2000
1863 kr
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In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. But this did not eliminate social hierarchies; instead, it redefined racial categories as cultural differences, such as differences in …
Indigenous Mestizos
The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991
Häftad, 2000
457 kr
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In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. But this did not eliminate social hierarchies; instead, it redefined racial categories as cultural differences, such as differences in …
Blood of Guatemala
A History of Race and Nation
Av Greg Grandin
Inbunden, 2000
1254 kr
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Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In …
Images at War
Mexico from Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019)
Häftad, 2001
579 kr
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“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 writing, the image can be a vehicle for all sorts of power and resistance.” So writes Serge Gruzinski in the introduction to Images at War, his …
Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader
Häftad, 2001
443 kr
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Sharing a postrevolutionary sympathy with the struggles of the poor, the contributors to this first comprehensive collection of writing on subalternity in Latin America work to actively link politics, culture, and literature. Emerging from a decade of work and debates generated by a collective …
Labors Appropriate to Their Sex
Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900–1930
Häftad, 2001
651 kr
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In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early twentieth-century Chile, when the growth of urban manufacturing was transforming the contours of women’s wage work and stimulating significant public debate, new legislation, educational …
Tribute of Blood
Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945
Häftad, 2001
457 kr
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In The Tribute of Blood Peter M. Beattie analyzes the transformation of army recruitment and service in Brazil between 1864 and 1945, using this history of common soldiers to examine nation building and the social history of Latin America’s largest nation. Tracing the army’s reliance on coercive …
Disrupting Savagism
Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for Self-Representation
Häftad, 2001
355 kr
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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, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Chicanas/os as well. While postcolonial studies of the past few decades have focused on how these ethnicities have …
Telling to Live
Latina Feminist Testimonios
Av Latina Feminist Group, Luz del Alba Acevedo m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
356 kr
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Telling to Live embodies the vision that compelled Latina feminists to engage their differences and find common ground. Its contributors reflect varied class, religious, ethnic, racial, linguistic, sexual, and national backgrounds. Yet in one way or another they are all professional producers of …
Art of Transition
Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis
Häftad, 2001
457 kr
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The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to …
Blood and Fire
La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946-1953
Av Mary Roldán
Häftad, 2002
651 kr
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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 first seven years of this little-studied period of terror, known as la Violencia, is the subject of Blood and Fire. Scholars have traditionally …
Black Nationalism in the New World
Reading the African-American and West Indian Experience
Av Robert Carr
Häftad, 2002
457 kr
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From nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Independence in the West Indies, up to the present era of globalization, Black Nationalism in the New World explores the paths taken by black nationalism …
Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies
Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space
Häftad, 2002
445 kr
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A train station becomes a police station; lands held sacred by Apaches and Mexicanos are turned into commercial and residential zones; freeway construction hollows out a community; a rancho becomes a retirement community-these are the kinds of spatial transformations that concern Mary Pat Brady in …
Muddied Waters
Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948
Häftad, 2003
387 kr
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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 domesticated a wild frontier and planted coffee on the forested slopes of the Andes. Some local inhabitants, however, tell a different tale-of white …
Contentious Lives
Two Argentine Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition
Häftad, 2003
345 kr
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Contentious Lives examines the ways popular protests are experienced and remembered, individually and collectively, by those who participate in them. Javier Auyero focuses on the roles of two young women, Nana and Laura, in uprisings in Argentina (the two-day protest in the northwestern city of …
Hall of Mirrors
Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico
Häftad, 2003
387 kr
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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 a Spanish colonial setting. Laura A. Lewis describes how the meanings attached to the categories of Spanish, Indian, black, mulatto, and mestizo …
