Perspectives on Las Americas: A Reader in Culture, History, & Representation

by Editor: Mathew C. Gutmann (Brown University); Editor: Fé; lix V. Rodriguez (Hunter College); Editor: Lynn Stephen (University of Oregon); Editor: Patricia Zavella (University of California, Santa Cruz)

• ISBN13: 9780470752067
• ISBN10: 0470752068
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Perspectives on Las Am_ricas: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation charts new territory by demonstrating the limits of neatly demarcating the regions of 'Latin America' and the 'United States'. This landmark volume presents key readings that collectively examine the historical, cultural, economic, and political integration of Latina/os across the Americas, thereby challenging the barriers between Latina/o Studies and Latin American/Caribbean Studies. Brings together key readings that collectively examine the historical, cultural, economic, and political integration of Latina/os across the Americas. Charts new territory by demonstrating the limits of neatly demarcating the regions of 'Latin America' and the 'United States'. Challenges the barriers between Latina/o Studies and Latin American/Caribbean Studies as approached by anthropologists, historians, and other scholars. Offers instructors, students, and interested readers both the theoretical tools and case studies necessary to rethink transnational realities and identities.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Editors' Acknowledgements

Acknowledgment to Sources

Introduction: Understanding the Américas: Insights from Latina/o and Latin American Studies

Colonialism and Resistance

Traddutora, Traditora: A Paradigmatic Figure of Chicana Feminism

From the Plantation to the Plantation (excerpt)

New Approaches to the Study of Peasant Rebellion and Consciousness: Implications of the Andean Experience

The Real æNew World OrderÆ: The Globalization of Racial and Ethnic Relations in the Late Twentieth Century

The Americans: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples in the United States

Global Political Economy

'¿Quién trabajará?': Domestic Workers, Urban Slaves, and the Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico

A Central American Genocide: Rubber, Slavery, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Guatusos-Malekus

Transnational Labor Process and Gender Relations: Women in Fruit and Vegetable Production in Chile, Brazil and Mexico

Inequality near and far: International Adoption as Seen from a Brazilian Favela

Identities, Practices, Hybridities

History, Culture, and Place-Making: 'Native' status and Maya Identity in Belize

The Carnivalization of the World

'Playing with Fire': The Gendered Construction of Chicana/Mexicana Sexuality

Returned Migration, Language, and Identity: Puerto Rican Bilinguals in Dos Worlds/Two Mundos

A Place Called Home: A Queer Political Economy of Mexican Immigrant Men's Family Experiences

Dominican Blackness and the Modern World

Popular Cultures

Jennifer's Butt

La Quinceañera: Making Gender and Ethnic Identities

Two Sides of the Same Coin: Modern Gaúcho identity in Brazil

The United States, Mexico and Machismo

Spectacular Bodies: Folklorization and the Politics of Identity in Ecuadorian Beauty Pageants

Regional, National, and Transnational Political Cultures

Gender, Politics, and the Triumph of Mestizaje in the Early 20th Century Nicaragua

The Construction of Indigenous Suspects: Militarization and the Gendered and Ethnic dynamics of Human Rights Abuses in Southern Mexico

For Whom the Taco Bells Toll: Popular Responses to NAFTA South of the Border

Immigration Reform and Nativism: The Nationalist Response to the Transnationalist Challenge

The Process of Black Community Organizing in the Southern Pacific Coast Region of Columbia

Index

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