Bøger i Latin America Otherwise serien

Explores the construction of hierarchy and difference in a Spanish colonial setting. This book describes how the meanings attached to the caste categories of Spanish, Indian, black, mulatto and mestizo were generated within that setting.

Examines the ways popular protests are experienced and remembered by those who participate in them. This book focuses on the roles of two young women, Nana and Laura, in uprisings in Argentina. It offers discussions of resistance and the combined effects of globalization, neoliberal economic policies, and political corruption in Argentina.

Suitable for those interested in African American studies, Caribbean studies, cultural studies, women's studies, and American studies, this book explores the paths taken by black nationalism in the United States and the Caribbean.

Examines how Chicana literature - its narrative techniques, stylistic conventions, plot dilemmas and resolutions - interrogate the multiple ways space and social relations constitute each other.

Addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the post-dictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neo-liberal market-driven economies. This work is suitable for Latin Americanists, literary and political theorists and those involved with the study of postmodernism and globalisation.

Colonial discourse in the United States has tended to criminalise, pathologise, and depict as savage not only Native Americans but Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Chicanas/os as well. This book reveals how each group, has actively attempted to create for itself a social and textual space.

Analyses the transformation of army [enlisted] 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.

A systematic account of Chilean women's labour from 1885 to 1930 showing how women's paid labour became a locus of anxiety for a society confronting social problems linked to modernisation.

An analysis of a new phenomenon in Brazil, wherein a growing number of mestizos are asserting Indian identities, and racial politics and understandings of race formation have radically shifted.

Describing the hard working conditions on plantations and harsh treatment of apprentices unjustly incarcerated, this book argues that apprenticeship actually worsened the conditions of Jamaican ex-slaves: former owners, no longer legally permitted to directly punish their workers, used the Jamaican legal system as a punitive lever against them.

Explores Mexico and its romance with the image as well as othe issues of Spanish colonialism.

Examines the conjunction between writing and violence that defined the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Americas (particularly North America) and in doing so, reveals why this conjunction remains relevant and influential today.

Presents the life-story of Dona Maria Roldan, a woman who lived and worked for six decades in the meatpacking community of Berisso, Argentina. This title examines in particular the ways that gender influences Dona Maria's representation of her story.

In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, like their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. This title traces the history of the notion of race from this turn-of-the-century definition to a denial of the definition's scientific validity.

Presents ethnography of peasant communities in Peru caught between the government and the Shining Path. This book chronicles the historical conditions that led to the formation of the rondas, the social and geographical expansion of the movement, and its gradual decline in the 1990s.

Shows how the Indian peasants played a crucial role in the battle against colonialism and in the political clashes of the early republican period. With its focus on Cuzco, the former capital of the Inca Empire, this book highlights the promises and frustrations of a critical period whose long shadow remains cast on modern Peru.

Provides a major study of race in Brazilian culture through the most complete critical analysis of Brazilian cinema in any language. This title examines the broad historical and cultural links that connect Brazil and the United States before considering multicultural imagery in Brazilian film as it has changed from the silent era to the present.

Focusing on the native subjects of Sonora in Northwestern Mexico, this book explores the social process of peasant class formation and the cultural persistence of Indian communities, during the transitional period between Spanish colonialism and Mexican national rule. It is useful for those in the fields of Latin American and postcolonial studies.

Examines Peru's troubled transition from colonial viceroyalty to postcolonial republic from the local perspective of Andean peasant politics.

Reveals the human drama behind the radical agrarian reform process that unfolded in Peru during the final three decades of the twentieth century. This book also evaluates Peru's military government (1969-79), its audacious agrarian reform program, and what that reform meant to Peruvians from all walks of life.

Compares the self-representations of the US Mexicanas with the representations of academic-affiliated, intellectual Chicana writers and visual artists. This work looks at how the Chicana professional intellectuals and the US Mexicana women refigure demeaning constructions of female gender roles and racial, ethnic, and sexual identities.

Focuses on a key moment of transition: the years that bridged the first contact between Spanish conquistadores and Andean peoples in 1531 and the moment, around 1550, when a functioning colonial regime emerged.

Explores "child circulation," informal arrangements in which indigenous Andean children are sent by their parents to live in other households. This title demonstrates that such an understanding of the practice is simplistic and misleading.

Chronicles the history of Indigenous political activism in Ecuador, from the creation of the local agricultural syndicates in the 1920s through the protests of 1990. This book reveals the central role of women in Indigenous movements and the history of productive collaborations between rural Indigenous activists and urban leftist intellectuals.

El Alto, Rebel City combines ethnography and political theory to explore the astonishing political power exercised by the indigenous citizens of El Alto, Bolivia in the past decade.

The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. The isolation of the Peron era was over, the economy was doing well, and the arts were invigorated. This book presents an examination of the 1960s as a brief historical moment when artists, institutions, and critics organized to promote an international identity for Argentina's visual arts.

Mexican American author Josie Mendez-Negrete's memoir of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father.

The story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

Investigates role that Las Casas played in the evolution of Spanish imperialism and 16th century arguments about human rights, and claims that scholars have overestimated the extent to which he helped indigenous people.