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  • Trajectories of Empire

    Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora

    by Abreu Alberto, Lucia Helena Costigan, Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Eliseo Jacob, Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Manuel Olmedo Gobante, Cassia Roth, Maria Andrea dos Santos Soares, Miguel A. Valerio, Elizabeth Wright ...
    Trajectories of Empire extends from the beginning of the Iberian expansion of the mid-fifteenth century, through colonialism and slavery, and into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Latin American republics. Its point of departure is the question of empire and its aftermath as reflected in the lives of contemporary Latin Americans of African descent and of their ancestors in the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Améfrica in Letters

    Literary Interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone

    by Mamadou Badiane, Ángela Castro, Gloria Chacón, Isis Barra Costa, Michael Handelsman, Eliseo Jacob, Diana Rodríguez Quevedo, Paulette Ramsay, Juan Guillermo Sánchez Martínez, Juan Eduardo Wolf ...
    Series series Hispanic Issue
    Traditional histories of Black letters in Latin America have delimited their geographic scope to the Caribbean while also omitting intertwined Afro-Indigenous discourses. Inspired by the legacy of Amefrican thinker Lélia Gonzalez, Améfrica in Letters highlights the Black poets, songwriters, novelists, essayists, and bloggers who have created a counter-multiculturalist literary history on the Latin ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race

    The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America

    by Marilyn Grace Miller ...
    Latin America is characterized by a uniquely rich history of cultural and racial mixtures known collectively as mestizaje. These mixtures reflect the influences of indigenous peoples from Latin America, Europeans, and Africans, and spawn a fascinating and often volatile blend of cultural practices and products. Yet no scholarly study to date has provided an articulate context for fully ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Colonial Phantoms

    Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present

    by Dixa Ramírez ...
    Series Book 28 - Nation of Nations
    Winner, 2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize, given by the Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies AssociationWinner, 2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies AssociationHighlights the histories and cultural expressions of the Dominican peopleUsing a blend of historical and literary analysis, Colonial Phantoms reveals how Western discourses have ghosted ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A New History of Iberian Feminisms

    Edited by Silvia Bermudez, Roberta Johnson ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    A New History of Iberian Feminisms is both a chronological history and an analytical discussion of feminist thought in the Iberian Peninsula, including Portugal, and the territories of Spain – the Basque Provinces, Catalonia, and Galicia – from the eighteenth century to the present day.The Iberian Peninsula encompasses a dynamic and fraught history of feminism that had to contend with entrenched ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America

    Trauma, Politics, and Resistance

    by Aída Díaz de León, Steven F. White, Marcella Salvi, Martha I. Chew Sánchez, Juan José Ponce-Vázquez, Selfa A. Chew, Alfred Limas Hernández, Beatriz Carolina Peña, Mallory Craig-Kuhn0, Oscar D. Sarmiento1, Liliana Trevizán2, Marina Llorente4, George Ciccariello-Maher5 ...
    Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America isa collection of essays that explores historical memory at the intersection of political, cultural, social, and economic forces in the contexts of Spain and Latin America. The essays here focus on a variety of forms of memory—from the most concrete to the performative—that resist forgetting and unite individuals against hegemonic memory. The volume ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America

    Edited by Jerome C. Branche ...
    Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural life of former enslaved Africans and their descendants. A world of cultural production, in the form of literature, poetry, art, music, and eventually film, would often simultaneously contravene or cooperate with the newly established order of Latin American nations ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Latin America

    The Allure and Power of an Idea

    by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo ...
    "Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively.Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity

    Language, Social Practice, and Identity within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism

    by Sherina Feliciano-Santos ...
    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity is an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding Taíno/Boricua activism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean diaspora in New York City. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, media analysis, and historical documents, the book explores the varied experiences and motivations of Taíno/Boricua activists as well as the alternative fonts of authority they draw on to ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Maya or Mestizo?

    Nationalism, Modernity, and its Discontents

    by Ronald Loewe ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    The Maya of the Yucatán have long been drawn into the Mexican state's attempt to create modern Mexican citizens (mestizos). At the same time, they have contended with globalization pressures, first with hemp production and more recently with increased tourism and the fast-growing influence of American-based evangelical Protestantism. Despite these pressures to turn Maya into mestizo, the citizens ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Borders of Dominicanidad

    Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction

    by Lorgia García Peña ...
    In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García-Peña explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. García-Peña constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic Haitians, and Dominicans living abroad have contested these dominant narratives and their violent, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Mestizo State

    Reading Race in Modern Mexico

    by Joshua Lund ...
    The Mestizo State examines how the ideas, images, and public discourse around race, nation, and citizen formation have been transformed in Mexico from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Starting with the Porfiriato, Joshua Lund investigates the rise of a racialized “mestizo state,” its reinvention after the Mexican Revolution, and its mobilization as a critical lever that would act both on ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD