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  • Madness and Social Change

    Autobiography of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform

    by Paulo Amarante ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    In this book, the history of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform is told by one of its main protagonists. In the early 1980s, there were about 80 thousand people admitted to psychiatric hospitals in Brazil, with average lengths of hospital stay of approximately 25 years. The psychiatric reform process that took place in the country was responsible for closing more than 60 thousand beds in mental ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Pigmentocracies

    Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America

    by Edward Telles ...
    Pigmentocracies — the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) — is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin America’s most populous nations. Based on extensive, original sociological and anthropological data generated by PERLA, this landmark study analyzes ethnoracial ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Chicanas and Chicanos in Contemporary Society

    by Gilbert R. Cadena, Janie Filoteo, Elizabeth Flores, Lara Medina, Robert P. Moreno, Maria C. Morales, Gilda L. Ochoa, Eric Romero, Rogelio Saenz, Armando Trujillo, Elsa O. Valdez, Raul H. Villa ...
    This book deals with a broad range of social issues facing Mexican-origin people in the United States. The studies presented in this volume are brought together by two main themes: (1) social inequalities-cultural, educational, and economic-endured by the Chicano/Mexicano community in the United States and (2) the community's efforts to eradicate the source of those inequalities.The second edition ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Collective Situations

    Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995–2010

    Edited by Bill Kelley Jr., Grant H. Kester ...
    In Collective Situations scholars, artists, and art collectives present a range of socially engaged art practices that emerged in Latin America during the Pink Tide period, between 1995 and 2010. This volume's essays, interviews, and artist's statements—many of which are appearing in English for the first time—demonstrate the complex relationship between moments of political transformation and ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Are Mexican Immigrant and Mexican American Female Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Being Served in Memphis, Tennessee?

    Support Services for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Among Mexican Immigrant and Mexican American Women in Memphis, Tennessee

    by M. Helena Vanderlei Collins ...
    Domestic violence against women is an oppressive condition that extends across race, class, and gender. This work examines intimate partner violence against women in Memphis, Tennessee, focusing on Mexican immigrant and Mexican American female survivors of domestic violence.Author M. Helena Vanderlei Collins interviewed ten Mexican immigrant women and seven Mexican American women to investigate ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Madhouse

    Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History

    by Jennifer L. Lambe ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    On the outskirts of Havana lies Mazorra, an asylum known to — and at times feared by — ordinary Cubans for over a century. Since its founding in 1857, the island’s first psychiatric hospital has been an object of persistent political attention. Drawing on hospital documents and government records, as well as the popular press, photographs, and oral histories, Jennifer L. Lambe charts the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Disappearances in Mexico

    From the 'Dirty War' to the 'War on Drugs'

    Edited by Silvana Mandolessi, Katia Olalde Rico ...
    Series series Europa Country Perspectives
    This volume presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the practice of disappearances in Mexico, from the period of the so-called ‘dirty war’ to the current crisis of disappearances associated with the country’s ‘war on drugs’, during which more than 80,000 people have disappeared. The volume brings together contributions by distinguished scholars from Mexico, Argentina and Europe, who focus their ... Read more

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  • English Language Teaching in South America

    Policy, Preparation and Practices

    Edited by Lía D. Kamhi-Stein, Gabriel Díaz Maggioli, Luciana C. de Oliveira ...
    Series Book 109 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    This book investigates new English language policies and initiatives which have been introduced and implemented across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela. Chapters are organized around three themes. Chapters in the first section critically examine newly-implemented English language policies, as well as factors that contribute to and prevent the implementation of ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Race Migrations

    Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race

    by Wendy Roth ...
    In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United States, Wendy D. Roth explores the influence of migration on changing cultural conceptions of race—for the newcomers, for their host society, and for those who remain in the countries left behind. Just as migrants can gain new language proficiencies, they can pick up new understandings of race. But adopting an ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Shattering Myths on Immigration and Emigration in Costa Rica

    Translated by Kari Meyers ...
    by Patricia Alvarenga, Mónica Brenes, Carmen Caamaño, Carlos Castro, Erika Chaves, Julia Fleming, Gustavo Gatica, Kate Goldade, Sang Lee, Rocío Loría, Karen Masís, Abelardo Morales, Laura Paniagua, Jorge Ramírez, Megan Rivers-Moore, Carlos Sandoval, Roger E. Bonilla-Calderón, Flora V. Calderón-Steck, Piet den Blanken, Carmen Kordick de Cubero ...
    Shattering Myths on Immigration and Emigration in Costa Rica provides the first comprehensive examination of transnational migration patterns into and out of Costa Rica. This impressive edited volume brings together the work of 18 top scholars from diverse social science backgrounds to analyze Costa Rican migration patterns in the era of globalization. The first section focuses on immigration in ... Read more

    $168.99 CAD

  • Latin American Perspectives on the Sociology of Health and Illness

    Edited by Fernando De Maio, Ignacio Llovet, Graciela Dinardi ...
    The sociology of health and illness is a rapidly growing field. Yet, as a field, it has suffered from a remarkably limited perspective dominated by scholarship produced in the global north. Scholars in the sociology of health and illness have been late to enter debates in global health and have generally failed to learn lessons from work originating in the global south. To begin to address this ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Demanding Justice and Security

    Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America

    by Rachel Sieder, Adriana Terven Salinas, Emma Cervone, Cristina Cucuri, Ana Cecilia Arteaga Bohrt, Leonor Lozano, Mariana Mora, Morna Macleod, Natalia De Marinis, Rosalva Aida Hernandez Castillo0, Maria Teresa Sierra1 ...
    Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Collectively, by engaging with various forms of law, they are forging new definitions of what justice and security mean within their own contexts and struggles. They have challenged racism and the exclusion of indigenous people in national reforms, but also have ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD