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  • The Hierarchies of Slavery in Santos, Brazil, 1822–1888

    de Ian Read ...
    Despite the inherent brutality of slavery, some slaves could find small but important opportunities to act decisively. The Hierarchies of Slavery in Santos, Brazil, 1822–1888 explores such moments of opportunity and resistance in Santos, a Southeastern township in Imperial Brazil. It argues that slavery in Brazil was hierarchical: slaves' fleeting chances to form families, work jobs that would not ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

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  • The Last of the Tribe

    The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon

    de Monte Reel ...
    Throughout the centuries, the Amazon has yielded many of its secrets, but it still holds a few great mysteries. In 1996 experts got their first glimpse of one: a lone Indian, a tribe of one, hidden in the forests of southwestern Brazil. Previously uncontacted tribes are extremely rare, but a one-man tribe was unprecedented. And like all of the isolated tribes in the Amazonian frontier, he was in ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil

    de Edward E. Telles, Howard Winant, Michael Mitchell, Peggy A. Lovell ...
    Bringing together U.S. and Brazilian scholars, as well as Afro-Brazilian political activists, Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil represents a significant advance in understanding the complexities of racial difference in contemporary Brazilian society. While previous scholarship on this subject has been largely confined to quantitative and statistical research, editor Michael Hanchard presents ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Corner of the Living

    Ayacucho on the Eve of the Shining Path Insurgency

    de Miguel La Serna ...
    Peru’s indigenous peoples played a key role in the tortured tale of Shining Path guerrillas from the 1960s through the first decade of the twenty-first century. The villagers of Chuschi and Huaychao, high in the mountains of the department of Ayacucho, have an iconic place in this violent history. Emphasizing the years leading up to the peak period of violence from 1980 to 2000, when 69,000 people ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Nanny and the Iceberg

    A Novel

    de Ariel Dorfman ...
    Conceived the night of Che Guevara’s burial in 1967, Gabriel McKenzie is inextricably bound up in the history and politics of his native Chile. Twenty-four years on, and still a virgin, Gabriel returns from Manhattan exile to confront his legacy: a Don Juan father and a country preparing for the five-hundredth anniversary of America’s "discovery." Into Gabriel’s quest for manhood and identity ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • In the Shadow of Green Man

    My Journey from Poverty and Hunger to Food Security and Hope

    de Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, Per Andreassen ...
    “My parents couldn’t read or write, we barely had clothes to wear. All we had were stories. We listened and absorbed them, and found our own place in the narrative.”  And what a narrative it is. Join the wonderfully colorful and poetic Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, or Regi, as he weaves together stories from his upbringing in revolution-torn Guatemala, the vision of a regenerative form of farming ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism

    de Richard A. Gordon ...
    Series series Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series
    A unique contribution to film studies, Richard Gordon’s Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism is the first full-length book on Brazilian films about slavery. By studying Brazilian films released between 1976 and 2005, Gordon examines how the films both define the national community and influence viewer understandings of Brazilianness. Though the films he examines span decades, they all ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Battling for Hearts and Minds

    Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973–1988

    de Steve J. Stern, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series Libro 2 - Latin America Otherwise
    Battling for Hearts and Minds is the story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, from the 1973 military coup in which he seized power through his defeat in a 1988 plebiscite. Steve J. Stern provides a riveting narration of Chile’s political history during this period. At the same time, he analyzes ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Brazil's Living Museum

    Race, Reform, and Tradition in Bahia

    de Anadelia A. Romo ...
    Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia has built its economy around attracting international tourists to what is billed as the locus of Afro-Brazilian culture and the epicenter of Brazilian racial harmony. Yet this inclusive ideal has a complicated past. Chronicling the discourse among intellectuals and state officials during the period from the abolition of slavery in 1888 to the start of Brazil’s ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Reckoning with Pinochet

    The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989–2006

    de Steve J. Stern, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series Libro 3 - Latin America Otherwise
    Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet’s legacy of human rights atrocities. An icon among Latin America’s “dirty war” dictators, Pinochet had ruled with extreme violence while building a loyal social base. Hero to some and criminal to others, the general cast a long shadow over Chile’s future. Steve J. Stern recounts the ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Immigration and Nationalism

    Argentina and Chile, 1890–1914

    de Carl Solberg ...
    Series series LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
    “Dirtier than the dogs of Constantinople.” “Waves of human scum thrown upon our beaches by other countries.” Such was the vitriolic abuse directed against immigrant groups in Chile and Argentina early in the twentieth century. Yet only twenty-five years earlier, immigrants had encountered a warm welcome. This dramatic change in attitudes during the quarter century preceding World War I is the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Price of Fire

    Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia

    de Benjamin Dangl ...
    New social movements have emerged in Bolivia over the “price of fire”—access to basic elements of survival like water, gas, land, coca, employment, and other resources. Though these movements helped pave the way to the presidency for indigenous coca-grower Evo Morales in 2005, they have made it clear that their fight for self-determination doesn’t end at the ballot box. From the first moments of ... Leer más

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