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Perspectives on Las Américas : a reader in culture, history, and representation /
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Maden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
c2003.
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| Colección: | Global perspectives.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Understanding the Américas: insights from Latino/a and Latin American studies / Lynn Stephen ... [et al.]
- Traddutora, traditora: a paradigmatic figure of Chicana feminism / Norma Alarcón
- From the plantation to the plantation (excerpt) / Antonio Benítez-Rojo
- New approaches to the study of peasant rebellion and consciousness: implications of the Andean experience / Steve J. Stern
- The real "new world order": the globalization of racial and ethnic relations in the late twentieth century / Néstor P. Rodríguez
- The Americans: Latin American and Caribbean peoples in the United States / Rubén G. Rumbaut
- "Quién Trabajará?" domestic workers, urban slaves, and the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico / Félix V. Matos Rodríguez
- A central American genocide: rubber, slavery, nationalism, and the destruction of the Guatusos-Malekus / Marc Edelman
- Transnational labor process and gender relations: women in fruit and vegetable production in Chile, Brazil and Mexico / Jane I. Collins
- Inequality near and far: international adoption as seen from a Brazilian favela / Claudia Fonseca
- History, culture, and place-making: 'native' status and Maya identity in Belize / Laurie Kroshus Medina
- The carnivalization of the world / Richard Parker
- "Playing with fire": the gendered construction of chicana/Mexicana sexuality / Patricia Zavella
- Returned migration, language, and identity: Puerto Rican bilinguals in dos worlds/two mundos / Ana Celia Zentella
- A place called home: a queer political economy of Mexican immigrant men's family experiences / Lionel Cantú
- Dominican blackness and the modern world / Silvio Torres-Saillant
- Jennifer's butt / Frances Negrón-Muntaner
- La quinceañera: making gender and ethnic identities / Karen Mary Davalos
- Two sides of the same coin: modern gaúcho identity in Brazil / Ruben George Oliven
- The United States, Mexico, and machismo / Américo Paredes
- Spectacular bodies: folklorization and the politics of identity in Ecuadorian beauty pageants / Mark Rogers
- Gender, politics, and the triumph of mestizaje in early 20th-century Nicaragua / Jeffrey Gould
- The construction of indigenous suspects: militarization and the gendered and ethnic dynamics of human rights abuses in southern Mexico / Lynn Stephen
- For whom the Taco Bells toll: popular responses to NAFTA south of the border / Matthew C. Gutmann
- Immigration reform and nativism: the nationalist response to the transnationalist challenge / Leo R. Chavez
- The process of black community organizing in the southern Pacific coast region of Colombia / Libia Grueso, Carlos Rosero, and Arturo Escobar.