Irene Silverblatt: 43 books
Modern Inquisitions
Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
Trying to understand how “civilized” people could embrace fascism, Hannah Arendt searched for a precedent in modern Western history. She found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bureaucratic rule, racial superiority, and appeals to rationality. Modern Inquisitions takes Arendt’s...
Imperial Subjects
Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with fixed categories of race and ethnicity. As Imperial Subjects demonstrates, from the early years of Spanish and Portuguese rule, understandings of race and ethnicity were fluid. In this collection, historians offer nuanced interpretations...
From the Margins
Historical Anthropology and Its Futures
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2002
Historical anthropology: critical exchange between two decidedly distinct disciplines or innovative mode of knowledge production? As this volume’s title suggests, the essays Brian Keith Axel has gathered in From the Margins seek to challenge the limits of discrete disciplinary epistemologies and...
The Art of Transition
Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2001
The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what...
Las hijas de Juan
Daughters Betrayed
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2006
Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Méndez-Negrete’s story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse...
by Marc Becker, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
In June 1990, Indigenous peoples shocked Ecuadorian elites with a powerful uprising that paralyzed the country for a week. Militants insisted that the government address Indigenous demands for land ownership, education, and economic development. This uprising was a milestone in the history of Ecuador’s...
Racial Revolutions
Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in Brazil as increasing numbers of pardos (individuals of mixed African, European, and indigenous descent) have chosen to identify themselves as Indians. In *Racial Revolutions—*the first book-length study of racial formation...
Battling for Hearts and Minds
Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973–1988
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2006
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...
by Rodolfo Kusch, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922–79) to be translated into English. At its core is a binary created by colonization and the devaluation of indigenous practices and cosmologies: an...
Reckoning with Pinochet
The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989–2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
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...
The Tribute of Blood
Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
In The Tribute of Blood Peter M. Beattie analyzes the transformation of army 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. Tracing the army’s reliance on coercive...
Images at War
Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019)
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2001
“If colonial America was the melting pot of modernity, it was because it was also a fabulous laboratory of images. . . . Just as much as speech and writing, the image can be a vehicle for all sorts of power and resistance.” So writes Serge Gruzinski in the introduction to Images at War, his striking...
The Blood of Guatemala
A History of Race and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2000
Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In The...
Disrupting Savagism
Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for Self-Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2001
Colonial discourse in the United States has tended to criminalize, pathologize, and depict as savage not only Native Americans but Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Chicanas/os as well. While postcolonial studies of the past few decades have focused on how these ethnicities have...