Irene Silverblatt: 43 books

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What’s Love Got to Do with It?

Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic

by Denise Brennan, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2004

In locations around the world, sex tourism is a booming business. What's Love Got to Do with It? is an in-depth examination of the motivations of workers, clients, and others connected to the sex tourism business in Sosúa, a town on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. Denise Brennan considers...
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Remembering Pinochet's Chile

On the Eve of London 1998

by Steve J. Stern, Walter D. Mignolo, Sonia Saldívar-Hull
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004

During the two years just before the 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet, the historian Steve J. Stern had been in Chile collecting oral histories of life under Pinochet as part of an investigation into the form and meaning of memories of state-sponsored atrocities. In this compelling...
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Callaloo Nation

Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad

by Aisha Khan, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2004

Mixing—whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism—is a foundational cultural trope in Caribbean and Latin American societies. Historically entwined with colonial, anticolonial, and democratic ideologies, ideas about mixing are powerful forces in the...
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Muddied Waters

Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948

by Nancy P. Appelbaum, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2003

Colombia’s western Coffee Region is renowned for the whiteness of its inhabitants, who are often described as respectable pioneer families who domesticated a wild frontier and planted coffee on the forested slopes of the Andes. Some local inhabitants, however, tell a different tale—of white migrants...
Book cover of Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950
by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2005

A major contribution to debates about Latin American state formation, Political Cultures in the Andes brings together comparative historical studies focused on Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. While highlighting patterns of political discourse...
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Another Face of Empire

Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism

by Daniel Castro, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007

The Spanish cleric Bartolomé de Las Casas is a key figure in the history of Spain’s conquest of the Americas. Las Casas condemned the torture and murder of natives by the conquistadores in reports to the Spanish royal court and in tracts such as A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies...
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Modern Blackness

Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica

by Deborah A. Thomas, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2004

Modern Blackness is a rich ethnographic exploration of Jamaican identity in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first. Analyzing nationalism, popular culture, and political economy in relation to one another, Deborah A. Thomas illuminates an ongoing struggle in Jamaica between the values associated...
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Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies

Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space

by Mary Pat Brady, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002

A train station becomes a police station; lands held sacred by Apaches and Mexicanos are turned into commercial and residential zones; freeway construction hollows out a community; a rancho becomes a retirement community—these are the kinds of spatial transformations that concern Mary Pat Brady...
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The Cord Keepers

Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village

by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004

None of the world’s “lost writings” have proven more perplexing than the mysterious script in which the Inka Empire kept its records. Ancient Andean peoples encoded knowledge in knotted cords of cotton or wool called khipus. In The Cord Keepers, the distinguished anthropologist Frank Salomon...
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The Time of Liberty

Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750–1850

by Peter Guardino, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2005

Between 1750 and 1850 Spanish American politics underwent a dramatic cultural shift as monarchist colonies gave way to independent states based at least nominally on popular sovereignty and republican citizenship. In The Time of Liberty, Peter Guardino explores the participation of subalterns in this...
Book cover of A Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica
by James Williams, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2001

This book brings back into print, for the first time since the 1830s, a text that was central to the transatlantic campaign to fully abolish slavery in Britain’s colonies. James Williams, an eighteen-year-old Jamaican “apprentice” (former slave), came to Britain in 1837 at the instigation of...
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Black Nationalism in the New World

Reading the African-American and West Indian Experience

by Robert Carr, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2002

From nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Independence in the West Indies, up to the present era of globalization, Black Nationalism in the New World explores the paths taken by black nationalism...
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Contentious Lives

Two Argentine Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition

by Javier Auyero, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003

Contentious Lives examines the ways popular protests are experienced and remembered, individually and collectively, by those who participate in them. Javier Auyero focuses on the roles of two young women, Nana and Laura, in uprisings in Argentina (the two-day protest in the northwestern city of Santiago...
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Labors Appropriate to Their Sex

Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900–1930

by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2001

In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early twentieth-century Chile, when the growth of urban manufacturing was transforming the contours of women’s wage work and stimulating significant public debate, new legislation, educational reform,...
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