Duke University Press: 2463 books
by Jocelyn H. Olcott, Robyn Wiegman, Inderpal Grewal
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2006
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico is an empirically rich history of women’s political organizing during a critical stage of regime consolidation. Rebutting the image of Mexican women as conservative and antirevolutionary, Jocelyn Olcott shows women activists challenging prevailing...
Visions of the Emerald City
Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2006
Visions of the Emerald City is an absorbing historical analysis of how Mexicans living in Oaxaca City experienced “modernity” during the lengthy “Order and Progress” dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1911). Renowned as the Emerald City (for its many buildings made of green cantera stone),...
Managing African Portugal
The Citizen-Migrant Distinction
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
In Managing African Portugal, Kesha Fikes shows how the final integration of Portugal’s economic institutions into the European Union (EU) in the late 1990s changed everyday encounters between African migrants and Portuguese citizens. This economic transition is examined through transformations...
Zapotec Women
Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
In this extensively revised and updated second edition of her classic ethnography, Lynn Stephen explores the intersection of gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity in southern Mexico. She provides a detailed study of how the lives of women weavers and merchants in the Zapotec-speaking town of Teotitlán...
The Hypersexuality of Race
Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
In The Hypersexuality of Race, Celine Parreñas Shimizu urges a shift in thinking about sexualized depictions of Asian/American women in film, video, and theatrical productions. Shimizu advocates moving beyond denunciations of sexualized representations of Asian/American women as necessarily demeaning...
Working the Boundaries
Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
While Chicago has the second-largest Mexican population among U.S. cities, relatively little ethnographic attention has focused on its Mexican community. This much-needed ethnography of Mexicans living and working in Chicago examines processes of racialization, labor subordination, and class formation;...
Bodies of Inscription
A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2000
Since the 1980s, tattooing has emerged anew in the United States as a widely appealing cultural, artistic, and social form. In Bodies of Inscription Margo DeMello explains how elite tattooists, magazine editors, and leaders of tattoo organizations have downplayed the working-class roots of tattooing...
Our Own Way in This Part of the World
Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Kofi Dᴐnkᴐ was a blacksmith and farmer, as well as an important healer, intellectual, spiritual leader, settler of disputes, and custodian of shared values for his Ghanaian community. In Our Own Way in This Part of the World Kwasi Konadu centers Dᴐnkᴐ's life story and experiences in a communography...
Hall of Mirrors
Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2003
Through an examination of caste in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico, Hall of Mirrors explores the construction of hierarchy and difference in a Spanish colonial setting. Laura A. Lewis describes how the meanings attached to the categories of Spanish, Indian, black, mulatto, and mestizo were...
Children of Facundo
Caudillo and Gaucho Insurgency during the Argentine State-Formation Process (La Rioja, 1853-1870)
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
In Children of Facundo Ariel de la Fuente examines postindependence Argentinian instability and political struggle from the perspective of the rural lower classes. As the first comprehensive regional study to explore nineteenth-century society, culture, and politics in the Argentine interior—where...
Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree
Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830–1949
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Missions played a vital role in frontier development in Latin America throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They were key to the penetration of national societies into the regions and indigenous lands that the nascent republics claimed as their jurisdictions. In Expecting Pears from an...
Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality
Brazil’s Contestado Rebellion, 1912–1916
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 1991
Why did a millenarian movement erupt in the Brazilian interior in 1912? Setting out to answer this deceptively simple question, Todd A. Diacon delivers a fascinating account of a culture in crisis.
Combining oral history with detailed archival research, Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality depicts...
Political Landscapes
Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
Following the 1917 Mexican Revolution inhabitants of the states of Chihuahua and Michoacán received vast tracts of prime timberland as part of Mexico's land redistribution program. Although locals gained possession of the forests, the federal government retained management rights, which created conflict...
The Privatization of Hope
Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia, SIC 8
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
The concept of hope is central to the work of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), especially in his magnum opus, The Principle of Hope (1959). The "speculative materialism" that he first developed in the 1930s asserts a commitment to humanity's potential that continued through...