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Natural resource extraction and primary commodity export remain persistent features of the Latin American economy. This book investigates the power of labor in extractive sectors starting in the 1980s. It shows how labor shapes national export sectors, economies, politics, and societies more broadly, and resists extractivism through organizing.

An in-depth analysis of literary and cultural productions from Haiti and the Dominican Republic and their diasporasSpirals in the Caribbean responds to key questions elicited by the human rights crisis accelerated in 2013 by the Dominican Constitutional Court's Ruling 168-13, which denationalized hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent. Spirals details how a paradigm of permanent conflict between the two nations has its roots in reactions to the Haitian Revolution-a conflict between slavers and freedom-seekers-contests over which have been transmitted over generations, repeating with a difference. Anti-Haitian nationalist rhetoric hides this long trajectory. Through the framework of the Spiral, a concept at the core of a Haitian literary aesthetic developed in the 1960s called Spiralism, Sophie Maríñez explores representations of colonial, imperial, and national-era violence. She takes as evidence legislation, private and official letters, oral traditions, collective memories, Afro-indigenous spiritual and musical practices, and works of fiction, plays, and poetry produced across the island and its diasporas from 1791 to 2002.With its emphases on folk tales, responses to the 1937 genocide, the Constitution of the Dominican Republic, Afro-indigenous collective memories, and lesser-known literary works on the genocide of indigenous populations in the Caribbean, Spirals in the Caribbean will attract students, scholars, and general readers alike.

"This book focuses on reggae/dancehall culture and West Indian historic and contemporary migration to Costa Rica and Brooklyn. It centers an analysis of migration, diaspora, queerness, Blackness, affect, and Caribbean cultural subjectivity using reggae/dancehall culture as an ethnographic lens. The author unveils underexplored forms of resistance, negotiations of gender and sexuality, and creation of informal cultural institutions with transnational ties"--

Explores ways faith communities offer protection and services for Latina/o communitiesThe New Sanctuary Movement is a network of faith-based organizations committed to offering safe haven to those in danger, often in churches, often outside the law, and often at risk to themselves. The practice of sanctuary, with its capacity to provide safety, shelter, and protection to society's most vulnerable, gained significant prominence after the 2016 presidential election and the ushering in of particularly harsh anti-immigration policies.Since 2017, Ohio has had some of the highest numbers of public sanctuary cases in the nation. Sanctuary People explores these sanctuary practices in Ohio and locates them in broader local and national efforts to provide refuge and care in the face of the challenges facing Latina/o communities in a moment of increased surveillance, migrant detention, displacement, and economic and social marginalization. Pérez argues for a conceptualization of sanctuary that is capacious, placing support of Puerto Ricans displaced in the wake of Hurricane Maria within the broader practices of sanctuary and expanding our understandings of the movement that addresses the precarious conditions of Latinas/os beyond migration status.Based on four years of ethnographic research and interviews at the local, state, and national levels, Sanctuary People offers a compelling exploration of the ways in which faith communities are creating new activist strategies and enacting new forms of solidarity, working within the sometimes conflicting ideological space between religion and activism to answer the call of justice and live their faith.

"Matters of Inscription: Reading Figures of Latinidad argues that Latinx inscriptions require us to read at the edge of materiality and semiosis, charting a nimble method for "reading" various forms of Latinx marks and even the word Latinx across art, performance, poetry, plays, and fiction"--

An exploration of how the ancient Maya engaged with their history by using, altering, and burying stone sculptures.

"A thrilling follow-up to 'Felice and the Wailing Woman' that explores the Texas-Mexico border myth of the Dancing Devil is brimming with magic, adventure and Mexican folklore and is perfect for fans of fantasy adventure series"--

Four women spark a revolution on a Caribbean island - the electrifying new novel from the Costa-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch.'Vital, enraging and brilliant. I loved it' SARAH WINMAN'Beautiful and important' SAFIYA SINCLAIR Early one morning, at the close of St Colibri's carnival, a young female steel-pan player is found dead beneath a cannonball tree. It is a discovery that will transform the lives of everyone on this small island. As the days pass, this shocking event draws together four women. There's Sharleen, a journalist with an eye for the real story. Her childhood friend Tara, a pink-haired, straight-talking local activist. Gigi, the 'notorious' founder of the Port Isabella Sex Workers Collective. And Daisy, first lady of St Colibri, who is haunted by a disappearance in her own family decades ago. In a community in which women's voices are often silenced and violence against them is overlooked time after time, the group soon find themselves compelled to speak out - and to act. But even they could never have foreseen the consequences of their courage... 'Roffey's world-building power is evident on every page'GUARDIAN'Will keep you reading all hours... unforgettable'GLAMOUR'Sensual, ferocious... If The White Lotus were a modern feminist thriller, this would be it'LALINE PAULL'The spirit of carnival itself is in the writing... Electrifying'JASON ALLEN-PAISANT'A vital novel... Fiery, funny'DIANA EVANSREADERS LOVE PASSIONTIDE'This was fantastic... five stars''Exhilarating... it's a blast, with sharp, smart humour''A powerful book... really moving''Filled with anger, unity and love''What an amazing book this is... This story will stay with me for a very long time''Moving and gripping''A must-read''I loved this book'

Many of us make poor food choices daily, leading to ill-health, lack of energy, and even sickness and disease. Have you ever thought about healthy cooking and eating and assumed it is too difficult, too expensive, or even too time-consuming? This perspective does not do justice to God's desire for us to live our lives in abundant health and wellness. It does not have to be this way, and Dorrel McLaren has set about in her cookbook to show us that Something Different is possible if we choose a healthy diet and couple that with spiritual wellness. The Caribbean-inspired recipes in the book are tasty, inexpensive, and easily accessible to even the newest cook endeavoring to create a healthy meal. Dorrel uses ingredients that can be purchased at most large grocery stores and includes detailed explanations on how to prepare each dish best. If you want to try Something Different that leads to better health and quality of life, this cookbook is for you! If we "eat with the right attitude," we can enjoy the full, vibrant, and happy life God intends for us. "A bowl of vegetables with someone you love is better than steak with someone you hate."(Proverbs 15:17, NLT) "This beautifully written gorgeously illustrated cookbook is a definitive text for anyone wanting to learn how to cook delicious easy plant-base meals to enhance their overall health."~ Lieutenant Colonel Verona Boucher, USAF, Retired "As a Clinician who believes and knows what you eat has an effect on your well-being, this cookbook gives you recipes that are wholesome and healthy. I would recommend this cookbook to anyone who is looking for something different in their daily cooking experience."~ Lilieth Occenad, FNP-C, Clinician Family Nurse Practitioner "Her (Dorrel's) background in food, nutrition and hospitality predisposes her to an above average knowledge in a plant base diet. Without question, this new cookbook is a must-have for every kitchen."~ Leanora Salmon, R.N., Washington Adventist Hospital

Changing your life and relocating to the tropics at the age of 35 typically requires a significant catalyst. This can take the form of a heart-wrenching breakup, a deep existential crisis, exhaustion from the relentless rat race, or simply the realization that life is slipping away, and it's time for a grand adventure. In my case, it was all of the above.After experiencing love for the very first time and enduring the pain of deception, every aspect of my existence came under scrutiny. I hailed from the east end of London, where I had trained as a hairstylist and eventually established my own salon on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood.When you've been deceived by someone you love, it changes the way you perceive the world, especially when your profession involves making women look and feel beautiful. As a hairstylist, when a woman described how she wanted her hair done I had to stop myself saying I don't believe you. That realization led me to a pivotal decision: it was time to sell everything and embark on a new journey in Jamaica.¿What awaited me turned out to be the most extraordinary chapter of my life. Much like a captivating novel, it was replete with humour, danger, romance, and breathtaking beauty. Beneath it all lay a profound message-when we commit ourselves to something and take risks, even the divine takes notice."

«¡Liberación! Sí, eso anhelábamos, igual que las miles de jóvenes que hoy inundan las calles refrendando ese deseo al cantar Alerta, alerta, alerta que camina, la lucha feminista por América Latina.» -Marta Lamas «Este libro reúne textos de esa época escritos por autoras vinculadas a uno de los grupos más importantes y longevos del feminismo mexicano. Inspiradas por las protestas del año de 1970 en Estados Unidos, poco más de una veintena de mujeres de la Ciudad de México formaron Mujeres en Acción Solidaria (MAS). Su primer acto público fue una acción de protesta alrededor de la maternidad como destino manifiesto de las mujeres, en mayo de 1971. A principios de 1974, el grupo se escindió y la mayor parte de sus integrantes formaron el Movimiento de Liberación de la Mujer (MLM) con la intención explícita de identificarse con la corriente internacional que pugnaba por la liberación de la mujer. [...] Aunque son representativos de las ideas de un grupo concreto de feministas mexicanas, los textos contenidos en esta antología restauran la historia de otras mujeres y grupos que se movilizaron alrededor del género en distintas partes de México en distintos momentos. Son puertos de entrada a cientos de experiencias de organización y protesta. Historias que habían sido olvidadas entonces y que lo volvieron a ser después.» -Ana Sofía Rodríguez EveraertENGLISH DESCRIPTION“Liberation! Yes, that’s what we yearned for, just like the thousands of young women who fill the streets today chanting, Alerta, alerta, alerta que camina, la lucha feminista por América Latina (Look out, the feminist struggle for Latin America is underway).” - Marta Lamas “This book is a compilation of writings by figures affiliated with one of Mexico’s most important and enduring feminist groups. Inspired by the 1970 protests in the United States, twenty-odd women in Mexico City founded Mujeres en Acción Solidaria (Women Acting in Solidarity).Its first public act, in May 1971, was a protest against the idea of motherhood as the goal for all women. The group split in early 1974, with the largest faction going on to create the Movimiento de Liberación de la Mujer (Women’s Liberation Movement), with the explicit objective of identifying itself with the international feminist movement. [...] Although the texts in this anthology represent the ideas of a specific Mexican feminist organization, they also reflect the history of other women and gender-based groups across Mexico at other moments in time and serve as an entry point to hundreds of experiences. Once forgotten, they have now been revived.” -Ana Sofía Rodríguez Everaert

In Thrift Store Metamorphosis Tony Robles astutely demonstrates the palpable currency of human interactions. His keen observations show us the necessity of reflection. In this mirror, we learn that everything and anything that we pay attention to has the capability to hold deep meaningful lessons for us and our lives. Robles makes us feel a range of emotion: sorrow, loss, love, regret, anger, rage, humor and hope. The poet reminds us with this essential collection, so goes the thrift store, so goes the world.-Glenis Redmond, Greenville Poet Laureate and Author of The Listening Skin.Like a medium, Robles listens to the stories screamed and whispered by his shop's donated items, and crafts for us songs of second chances, odes to surprises, and meditations on memory. Thrift Store Metamorphosis is a gorgeous reflection on the circles and cycles that shape us.-Meagan Lucas, author of Songbirds and Stray Dogs and Here in the Dark.Seen through Tony's eyes and felt through his heart; memories and stories that will open old eyes to see and feel new. -Ronnie Pepper, storyteller and lifelong Hendersonville ResidentIn this delightful thrift store world, passing interactions with customers become transformative, and cast-off objects transport us through time to the poet's youth in San Francisco. This beautiful collection is fresh, moving, and full of deep insights into an ordinary world that Robles masterfully shapes into something extraordinary.-Jennifer McGaha, Great Smokies Writing Program Coordinator and Author of Flat Broke With Two Goats.With a poet's eye for finding significance in the everyday world, Tony Robles has found the perfect crossroads to use as his viewing platform-- the thrift store. Here every item carries implications of both an end and a new beginning. We find nostalgia, love, loss, hope, and, ultimately, a guide to help us get to the deeper meanings of our lives.-Clint McCown, author of The Dictionary of Unspellable Noises: New & Selected Poems 1975-2018.About the AuthorTony Robles was born in San Francisco and makes his home in Hendersonville, North Carolina. He was named Carl Sandburg Writer in Residence by the Friends of Carl Sandburg in Flat Rock, North Carolina in 2020. He is the author of the poetry and short story collections, Cool Don't Live Here No More-A letter to San Francisco and Fingerprints of a Hunger Strike, published by Ithuriel's Spear. He was short list nominated for Poet Laureate of San Francisco in 2017 and a two-time Push Cart Prize nominee. He received his MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2023.

Este libro, estimado lector, Regresan los pájaros, del poeta costarricense Carlos Enrique Rivera, es un libro existencial, concebido desde una realidad interior, que abarca cuatro temáticas fundamentales: - La visión de mundo del poeta, cuya filosofía desea compartir con el lector.- Las experiencias personales "pintadas de plata'', o sea, embellecidas por el paso de los años vividos.- El disfrute del amor y de su fuego, que ilumina nuestros años.- La necesidad humana de pertenencia, expresada por el poeta en su paso por el mundo, sus viajes y sus vivencias en el periodo de la reciente pandemia.Carlos Enrique Rivera inicia sus inquietudes poéticas desde muy joven, en el Círculo de poetas turrialbeños, fundado por el poeta Jorge Debravo, que fue el primer taller literario que nació en Costa Rica, del que surgieron, ademas de Debravo y Rivera, los poetas Laureano Alban, Marco Aguilar y otros. Ha publicado seis poemarios, y tiene inéditos tres más. Actualmente asiste al Taller Literario que coordina el poeta Ronald Bonilla.Esperamos que nuestros lectores encuentren en este poemario, un reflejo hermoso y vivido de sus inquietudes personales, y por qué no, una respuesta para muchas de ellas.

Jamaica is a popular tourist destination, but what is life like for the people who live on this Caribbean island? Readers find out as they explore chapters devoted to this nation's geography, government, religious and ethnic groups, leisure activities, and more. Vibrant photographs highlight the beauty of the Jamaican landscape and people, and maps provide an additional visual element. Sidebars and fact boxes help develop a sense of curiosity about other parts of the world as well as a stronger understanding of global citizenship. Readers can even share what they've learned by using the included recipes for tasty Jamaican dishes.

The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s. But as soon as the Sandinistas were voted out of power in 1990 and the Iran Contra affair ceased to make headlines, it became, in Washington at least, a thing of the past. Mateo Jarquin recenters the revolution as a major episode in the history of Latin America, the international left, and the Cold War. Drawing on research in Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica, he recreates the perspective of Sandinista leaders in Managua and argues that their revolutionary project must be understood in international context. Because struggles over the Revolution unfolded transnationally, the Nicaraguan drama had lasting consequences for Latin American politics at a critical juncture. It also reverberated in Western Europe, among socialists worldwide, and beyond, illuminating global dynamics like the spread of democracy and the demise of a bipolar world dominated by two superpowers. Jarquin offers a sweeping analysis of the last left-wing revolution of the twentieth century, an overview of inter-American affairs in the 1980s, and an incisive look at the making of the post?Cold War order.

"Puerto Rico has been an 'unincorporated territory' of the United States for over a century. For much of that time, the archipelago has been mostly invisible to US residents and neglected by the government. Recently, a series of crises, from outsized debt to climate fueled disasters, have led to massive protests and brought Puerto Rico greater visibility. Mâonica A. Jimâenez argues that to fully understand how and why Puerto Rico finds itself in this current moment of precarity, we must look to a larger history of US settler colonialism and racial exclusion in law. The federal policies and jurisprudence that created Puerto Rico exist within a larger pantheon of exclusionary, race-based laws and policies that have carved out 'states of exception' for racial undesirables: Native Americans, African Americans, and the inhabitants of the insular territories. This legal regime has allowed the federal government plenary or complete power over these groups. Jimâenez brings these histories together to demonstrate that despite Puerto Rico's unique position as a twenty-first-century colony, its path to that place was not exceptional"--

"This book analyzes the ways collective memories of the US-Mexico War have shaped Mexican Americans' civil rights struggles over several generations. As the first Latinx people incorporated into the nation, Mexican Americans were offered US citizenship by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war. Because the 1790 Naturalization Act declared whites solely eligible for citizenship, the treaty pronounced Mexican Americans to be legally white. While their incorporation as citizens appeared as progress towards racial justice and the electorate's diversification, their second-class citizenship demonstrated a retrenchment in racial progress. Over several generations, civil rights activists summoned conquest memories to link Mexican Americans' poverty, electoral disenfranchisement, low educational attainment, and health disparities to structural and institutional inequalities resulting from racial retrenchments. Activists also recalled the treaty's citizenship guarantees to push for property rights, protection from vigilante attacks, and educational reform. Omar Valerio-Jimâenez addresses the politics of memory by exploring how succeeding generations reinforced or modified earlier memories of conquest according to their contemporary social and political contexts. The book also examines collective memories in the US and Mexico to illustrate transnational influences on Mexican Americans and to demonstrate how community and national memories can be used strategically to advance political agendas"--

Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals-terrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and dead-was central to the region's transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile. Drawing on evidence from archives and digital repositories, John Soluri traces the circulation of furs and fibers to explore how the power of fashion stretched far beyond Europe's houses of haute couture to entangle the fates of Indigenous hunters, migrant workers, and textile manufacturers with those of fur seals, guanacos, and sheep at the "end of the world."From the nineteenth-century rise of commercial hunting to twentieth-century sheep ranching to contemporary conservation-based tourism, Soluri's narrative explains how struggles for control over the production of commodities and the reproduction of animals drove the social and environmental changes that tied Patagonia to global markets, empires, and wildlife conservation movements. By exposing seams in national territories and global markets knit together by force, this book provides perspectives and analyses vital for understanding contemporary conflicts over mass consumption, the conservation of biodiversity, and struggles for environmental justice in Patagonia and beyond.

The site of the ruined ancestral home of Kwame Dawes's family, in one of the earliest post-slavery free villages in Jamaica, Sturge Town is at once a place of myth and, for Dawes, a metaphor of the journeying that has taken him from Ghana, through Jamaica, and to the United States. The poet ranges through time, pursued by a keen sense of mortality, and engages in an intimate dialogue with the reader-serious, confessional, alarmed, and sometimes teasing. Metrically careful and sonorous, these poems engage in a personal dialogue with the reader, serious, confessional, alarmed and sometimes teasing. They create highly visualized spaces, observed, remembered, imagined, the scenes of both outward and inner journeys. Whether finding beauty in the quotidian or taking astonishing imaginative leaps, these poems speak movingly of self-reflection, family crises, loss, transcendence, the shattering realities of political engagement, and an unremitting investment in the vivid indeterminacy of poetry.

Im Alter von 85 Jahren blickt Ulrike Rebel zurück auf ihre Abenteuer, in denen sie als kleines Mädchen im 2. Weltkrieg russischen Gewehren gegenüberstand, unter der Erziehung eines STASI-Offiziers aufwuchs, Republikflucht im VW-Bus eines US-Soldaten beging, in West-Berlin Medizin studierte, in die USA auswanderte und nach einer halben Weltreise mit dem Segelboot auf der Insel Culebra Malerin wurde.

This book presents aspects of the Cuba policy during Gerald R. Ford¿s administration (August 9, 1974 to January 20, 1977), and the oscillations between carrot and stick that was its hallmark. The book¿s Cuban perspective complements the knowledge of the U.S.-Cuban relationship during the mid-1970s.

From Pura Belpré Honor-winning author Adrianna Cuevas comes Mari and the Curse of El Cocodrilo, a new middle grade novel about a young Cuban American girl who must fight to break a curse of bad luck set upon her by El Cocodrilo when she rejects her family's traditions.If Mari Feijoo could, she would turn her family's Peak Cubanity down a notch, just enough so that her snooping neighbor and classmate Mykenzye wouldn't have anything to tease her about. That's why this year, there's no way that Mari's joining in on one of the big-gest Feijoo family traditions--burning the New Year's Eve effigy her abuela makes.Only Mari never suspects that failing to toss her effigy in the fire would bring something much worse than sneering words at school: a curse of bad luck from El Cocodrilo. At first, it's just possessed violins and grade sabotaging pencils, but once El Cocodrilo learns that he becomes more powerful with each new misery, her luck goes from bad to nightmarish as the curse spreads to her friend Keisha.Instead of focusing on Mari's mariachi band tryout and Keisha's fencing tournament, the pair, along with their friend Juan Carlos, are racing against the clock to break the curse. But when Mari discovers her family's gift to call upon their ancestors, she and her friends will have to find a way to work with the unexpected help that arrives from the far corners of Mari's family tree. Only will it be enough to defeat El Cocodrilo before he makes their last year of elementary school the worst ever and tears their friendship apart?

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