Larissa M. Mercado-López is Assistant Professor of Women”s Studies at California State University, Fresno. She received her doctorate in English/Latina Literature in 2011 from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research areas include Chicana feminism, maternal studies, and feminist approaches to Latina fitness and health.
48 Ebooks por Sonia Saldívar-Hull
Arturo J. Aldama: Disrupting Savagism
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 …
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Greg Grandin: Blood of Guatemala
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, …
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Maria Milagros Lopez & Maria Milagros Lopez: Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader
Sharing a postrevolutionary sympathy with the struggles of the poor, the contributors to this first comprehensive collection of writing on subalternity in Latin America work to actively link politics …
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Peter M. Beattie: Tribute of Blood
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 …
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Debra J. Blake: Chicana Sexuality and Gender
Since the 1980s Chicana writers including Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, and Alma Luz Villanueva have reworked iconic Mexican cultural symbols such as mother earth go …
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Jonathan W. Warren: Racial Revolutions
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 ident …
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Elizabeth Quay Hutchison: Labors Appropriate to Their Sex
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 contour …
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Francine Masiello: Art of Transition
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 mar …
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Marc Becker: Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements
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 o …
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Charles F. Walker: Smoldering Ashes
In Smoldering Ashes Charles F. Walker interprets the end of Spanish domination in Peru and that country’s shaky transition to an autonomous republican state. Placing the indigenous population at the …
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Orin Starn: Nightwatch
Organized in the mid-1970s as a means of communal protection against livestock rustling and general thievery in Peru’s rugged northern mountains, the rondas campesinas (peasants who make the rounds) …
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James Williams: Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica
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 …
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Mary Roldan: Blood and Fire
Between 1946 and 1966a surge of violence in Colombia left 200, 000 dead in one of the worst conflicts the western hemisphere has ever experienced. the first seven years of this little-studied period …
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Mary Pat Brady: Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies
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 …
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Robert Carr: Black Nationalism in the New World
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 …
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Nancy P. Appelbaum: Muddied Waters
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 f …
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Javier Auyero: Contentious Lives
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 w …
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Laura A. Lewis: Hall of Mirrors
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 descr …
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Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo: Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development
In The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development, Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo boldly argues that crucial twentieth-century revolutionary challenges to colonialism and c …
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Andres Guerrero & Mark Thurner: After Spanish Rule
Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, After Spanish Rule is the first collection of essays by Latin Americanist historians and anthrop …
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Denise Brennan: What’s Love Got to Do with It?
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 tou …
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Raymond B Craib: Cartographic Mexico
In Cartographic Mexico, Raymond B. Craib analyzes the powerful role cartographic routines such as exploration, surveying, and mapmaking played in the creation of the modern Mexican state in the ninet …
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Daniel M. Goldstein: Spectacular City
Since the Bolivian revolution in 1952, migrants have come to the city of Cochabamba, seeking opportunity and relief from rural poverty. They have settled in barrios on the city’s outskirts only to fi …
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Aisha Khan: Callaloo Nation
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 …
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Frank L. Salomon: Cord Keepers
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 cor …
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Irene Silverblatt: Modern Inquisitions
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 …
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Steve J. Stern: Remembering Pinochet’s Chile
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 i …
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Deborah A. Thomas: Modern Blackness
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 relatio …
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Peter Guardino: Time of Liberty
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 republica …
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Nils Jacobsen & Cristobal Aljovin de Losada: Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950
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 fr …
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Jane E. Mangan: Trading Roles
Located in the heart of the Andes, Potosi was arguably the most important urban center in the Western Hemisphere during the colonial era. It was internationally famous for its abundant silver mines a …
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Joanne Rappaport: Intercultural Utopias
Although only 2 percent of Colombia’s population identifies as indigenous, that figure belies the significance of the country’s indigenous movement. More than a quarter of the Colombian national terr …
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€38.19
Josie Mendez-Negrete: Las hijas de Juan
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 Mendez …
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Steve J. Stern: Battling for Hearts and Minds
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 militar …
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Gonzalo Lamana: Domination without Dominance
Offering an alternative narrative of the conquest of the Incas, Gonzalo Lamana both examines and shifts away from the colonial imprint that still permeates most accounts of the conquest. Lamana focus …
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Sian Lazar: El Alto, Rebel City
Combining anthropological methods and theories with political philosophy, Sian Lazar analyzes everyday practices and experiences of citizenship in a satellite city to the Bolivian capital of La Paz: …
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Nelson Maldonado-Torres: Against War
Nelson Maldonado-Torres argues that European modernity has become inextricable from the experience of the warrior and conqueror. In Against War, he develops a powerful critique of modernity, and he o …
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Daniel Castro: Another Face of Empire
The Spanish cleric Bartolome 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 …
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Andrea Giunta: Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics
The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above al …
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Enrique Mayer: Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform
Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform reveals the human drama behind the radical agrarian reform that unfolded in Peru during the final three decades of the twentieth century. That process beg …
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Richard T. Rodriguez: Next of Kin
As both an idea and an institution, the family has been at the heart of Chicano/a cultural politics since the Mexican American civil rights movement emerged in the late 1960s. In Next of Kin, Richard …
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Gloria Anzaldua: Gloria Anzaldua Reader
Born in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldua was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera: T …
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Jessaca B. Leinaweaver: Circulation of Children
In this vivid ethnography, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver explores "child circulation, " informal arrangements in which indigenous Andean children are sent by their parents to live in other househo …
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Steve J. Stern: Reckoning with Pinochet
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& …
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Andrew B. Fisher & Matthew D. O’Hara: Imperial Subjects
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 …
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Rodolfo Kusch: Indigenous and Popular Thinking in America
Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in America is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922-79) to be translated into English. At its core is …
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Paul Eiss: In the Name of El Pueblo
The term "el pueblo" is used throughout Latin America, referring alternately to small towns, to community, or to "the people" as a political entity. In this vivid anthropological …
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Geneva M. Gano & Sonia Saldivar-Hull: Ay Tu!
A comprehensive volume on the life and work of renowned Chicana author Sandra Cisneros.Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954), author of the acclaimed novel The House on Mango Street and a recipient of the Nation …
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