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Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Staging an important new conversation between performers and critics, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of blackness and Latinidad through a stimulating mix of theory and art. The collection contains nine performance scripts by established and emerging black and Latina/o queer...
Deviations
A Gayle Rubin Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and gay, queer, and sexuality studies since the 1970s. Rubin first rose to prominence in 1975 with the publication of “The Traffic in Women,” an essay that had a galvanizing...
Metroimperial Intimacies
Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899–1913
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Román Mendoza combines historical, literary, and archival analysis with queer-of-color critique to show how U.S. imperial incursions into the Philippines enabled the growth of unprecedented social and sexual intimacies between native Philippine and U.S. subjects....
Right to Rock
The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2004
The original architects of rock ’n’ roll were black musicians including Little Richard, Etta James, and Chuck Berry. Jimi Hendrix electrified rock with his explosive guitar in the late 1960s. Yet by the 1980s, rock music produced by African Americans no longer seemed to be “authentically black.”...
Steeped in Heritage
The Racial Politics of South African Rooibos Tea
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
South African rooibos tea is a commodity of contrasts. Renowned for its healing properties, the rooibos plant grows in a region defined by the violence of poverty, dispossession, and racism. And while rooibos is hailed as an ecologically indigenous commodity, it is farmed by people who struggle to...
by Marcela Ríos Tobar, Jutta Marx, Jutta Borner
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Latin American women’s movements played important roles in the democratic transitions in South America during the 1980s and in Central America during the 1990s. However, very little has been written on what has become of these movements and their agendas since the return to democracy. This timely...
Indigenous Development in the Andes
Culture, Power, and Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
As indigenous peoples in Latin America have achieved greater prominence and power, international agencies have attempted to incorporate the agendas of indigenous movements into development policymaking and project implementation. Transnational networks and policies centered on ethnically aware development...
Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution
Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and Jürgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, consequences, and legacies. They do so from varied perspectives, including those of campesinos and workers; politicians, artists, intellectuals, and students;...
The School of the Americas
Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2004
Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America, in counterinsurgency and combat-related skills since it was founded in 1946. So widely documented is the participation...
The World of Lucha Libre
Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
The World of Lucha Libre is an insider’s account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. Heather Levi spent more than a year immersed in the world of wrestling in Mexico City. Not only did she observe live events and interview wrestlers, referees, officials, promoters,...
Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History
Essays from the North
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2001
Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power. True to the intellectual vision of Brazilian historian Emilia Viotti da Costa, one of Latin America’s...
Communication and Empire
Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860–1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the “global media” between 1860 and 1930. They analyze the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of national...
America's Miracle Man in Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2005
America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam rethinks the motivations behind one of the most ruinous foreign-policy decisions of the postwar era: America’s commitment to preserve an independent South Vietnam under the premiership of Ngo Dinh Diem. The so-called Diem experiment is usually ascribed to U.S....
The Unpredictability of the Past
Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.–East Asian Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
In The Unpredictability of the Past, an international group of historians examines how collective memories of the Asia-Pacific War continue to affect relations among China, Japan, and the United States. The contributors are primarily concerned with the history of international relations broadly conceived...