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Perspectives on Las Américas : a reader in culture, history, and representation / edited and introduced by Matthew C. Gutmann [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Global perspectivesPublisher: Maden, MA : Blackwell Pub., [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: xv, 461 pages ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0631222952
  • 9780631222958
  • 0631222960
  • 9780631222965
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 980 21
LOC classification:
  • F1410 .P48 2003
Contents:
Introduction: Understanding the Americas: Insights from Latina/ o and Latin American Studies / Lynn Stephen, Patricia Zavella, Matthew C. Gutmann and Felix V. Matos Rodriguez -- Pt. I. Colonialism and Resistance -- 1. Traddutora, Traditora: A Paradigmatic Figure of Chicana Feminism / Norma Alarcon -- 2. From the Plantation to the Plantation (Excerpt) / Antonio Benitez-Rojo -- 3. New Approaches to the Study of Peasant Rebellion and Consciousness: Implications of the Andean Experience / Steve J. Stern -- 4. The Real "New World Order": The Globalization of Racial and Ethnic Relations in the Late Twentieth Century / Nestor P. Rodriguez -- 5. The Americans: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples in the United States / Ruben G. Rumbaut -- Pt. II. Global Political Economy -- 6. "Quien Trabajara": Domestic Workers, Urban Slaves, and the Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico / Felix V. Matos Rodriguez -- 7. A Central American Genocide: Rubber, Slavery, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Guatusos-Malekus / Marc Edelman -- 8. Transnational Labor Process and Gender Relations: Women in Fruit and Vegetable Production in Chile, Brazil and Mexico / Jane I. Collins -- 9. Inequality Near and Far: International Adoption as Seen from a Brazilian Favela / Claudia Fonseca -- Pt. III. Identities, Practices, Hybridities -- 10. History, Culture, and Place-Making: 'Native' Status and Maya Identity in Belize / Laurie Kroshus Medina -- 11. The Carnivalization of the World / Richard Parker -- 12. "Playing with Fire": The Gendered Construction of Chicana/Mexicana Sexuality / Patricia Zavella -- 13. Returned Migration, Language, and Identity: Puerto Rican Bilinguals in Dos Worlds/Two Mundos / Ana Celia Zentella -- 14. A Place Called Home: A Queer Political Economy of Mexican Immigrant Men's Family Experiences / Lionel Cantu -- 15. Dominican Blackness and the Modern World / Silvio Torres-Saillant -- Pt. IV. Popular Cultures -- 16. Jennifer's Butt / Frances Negron-Muntaner -- 17. La Quinceanera: Making Gender and Ethnic Identities / Karen Mary Davalos -- 18. Two Sides of the Same Coin: Modern Gaucho Identity in Brazil / Ruben George Oliven -- 19. The United States, Mexico, and Machismo / Americo Paredes -- 20. Spectacular Bodies: Folklorization and the Politics of Identity in Ecuadorian Beauty Pageants / Mark Rogers -- Pt. V. Regional, National, and Transnational Political Cultures -- 21. Gender, Politics, and the Triumph of Mestizaje in Early 20th-Century Nicaragua / Jeffrey Gould -- 22. The Construction of Indigenous Suspects: Militarization and the Gendered and Ethnic Dynamics of Human Rights Abuses in Southern Mexico / Lynn Stephen -- 23. For Whom the Taco Bells Toll: Popular Responses to NAFTA South of the Border / Matthew C. Gutmann -- 24. Immigration Reform and Nativism: The Nationalist Response to the Transnationalist Challenge / Leo R. Chavez -- 25. The Process of Black Community Organizing in the Southern Pacific Coast Region of Colombia / Libia Grueso, Carlos Rosero and Arturo Escobar.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Understanding the Americas: Insights from Latina/ o and Latin American Studies / Lynn Stephen, Patricia Zavella, Matthew C. Gutmann and Felix V. Matos Rodriguez -- Pt. I. Colonialism and Resistance -- 1. Traddutora, Traditora: A Paradigmatic Figure of Chicana Feminism / Norma Alarcon -- 2. From the Plantation to the Plantation (Excerpt) / Antonio Benitez-Rojo -- 3. New Approaches to the Study of Peasant Rebellion and Consciousness: Implications of the Andean Experience / Steve J. Stern -- 4. The Real "New World Order": The Globalization of Racial and Ethnic Relations in the Late Twentieth Century / Nestor P. Rodriguez -- 5. The Americans: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples in the United States / Ruben G. Rumbaut -- Pt. II. Global Political Economy -- 6. "Quien Trabajara": Domestic Workers, Urban Slaves, and the Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico / Felix V. Matos Rodriguez -- 7. A Central American Genocide: Rubber, Slavery, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Guatusos-Malekus / Marc Edelman -- 8. Transnational Labor Process and Gender Relations: Women in Fruit and Vegetable Production in Chile, Brazil and Mexico / Jane I. Collins -- 9. Inequality Near and Far: International Adoption as Seen from a Brazilian Favela / Claudia Fonseca -- Pt. III. Identities, Practices, Hybridities -- 10. History, Culture, and Place-Making: 'Native' Status and Maya Identity in Belize / Laurie Kroshus Medina -- 11. The Carnivalization of the World / Richard Parker -- 12. "Playing with Fire": The Gendered Construction of Chicana/Mexicana Sexuality / Patricia Zavella -- 13. Returned Migration, Language, and Identity: Puerto Rican Bilinguals in Dos Worlds/Two Mundos / Ana Celia Zentella -- 14. A Place Called Home: A Queer Political Economy of Mexican Immigrant Men's Family Experiences / Lionel Cantu -- 15. Dominican Blackness and the Modern World / Silvio Torres-Saillant -- Pt. IV. Popular Cultures -- 16. Jennifer's Butt / Frances Negron-Muntaner -- 17. La Quinceanera: Making Gender and Ethnic Identities / Karen Mary Davalos -- 18. Two Sides of the Same Coin: Modern Gaucho Identity in Brazil / Ruben George Oliven -- 19. The United States, Mexico, and Machismo / Americo Paredes -- 20. Spectacular Bodies: Folklorization and the Politics of Identity in Ecuadorian Beauty Pageants / Mark Rogers -- Pt. V. Regional, National, and Transnational Political Cultures -- 21. Gender, Politics, and the Triumph of Mestizaje in Early 20th-Century Nicaragua / Jeffrey Gould -- 22. The Construction of Indigenous Suspects: Militarization and the Gendered and Ethnic Dynamics of Human Rights Abuses in Southern Mexico / Lynn Stephen -- 23. For Whom the Taco Bells Toll: Popular Responses to NAFTA South of the Border / Matthew C. Gutmann -- 24. Immigration Reform and Nativism: The Nationalist Response to the Transnationalist Challenge / Leo R. Chavez -- 25. The Process of Black Community Organizing in the Southern Pacific Coast Region of Colombia / Libia Grueso, Carlos Rosero and Arturo Escobar.

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