Perspectives on Las Americas A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation

by Gutmann, Mathew C.; Rodrí; guez, Fé; lix V.; Stephen, Lynn; Zavella, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780631222965
• ISBN10: 0631222960
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-31
• 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.

Author Biography

Matthew C. Gutmann is the Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of the Social Sciences – International Affairs at Brown University, Providence, RI.

Félix V. Matos Rodríguez is the Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (City University of New York).

Lynn Stephen is Professor and chair of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Patricia Zavella is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and Co-Director of the Chicano/Latino Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	viii
Editors' Acknowledgments	xi
Acknowledgments to Sources	xiii
Introduction: Understanding the Americas: Insights from Latina/o and Latin American Studies	1	(32)
Lynn Stephen
Patricia Zavella
Matthew C. Gutmann
Felix V. Matos Rodriguez
Part I Colonialism and Resistance
Traddutora, Traditora: A Paradigmatic Figure of Chicana Feminism	33	(17)
Norma Alarcon
From the Plantation to the Plantation (Excerpt)	50	(16)
Antonio Benitez-Rojo
New Approaches to the Study of Peasant Rebellion and Consciousness: Implications of the Andean Experience	66	(15)
Steve J. Stern
The Real ``New World Order'': The Globalization of Racial and Ethnic Relations in the Late Twentieth Century	81	(9)
Nestor P. Rodriguez
The Americans: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples in the United States	90	(27)
Ruben G. Rumbaut
Part II Global Political Economy
``¿Quien Trabajara?'': Domestic Workers, Urban Slaves, and the Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico	117	(15)
Felix V. Matos Rodriguez
A Central American Genocide: Rubber, Slavery, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Guatusos-Malekus	132	(28)
Marc Edelman
Transnational Labor Process and Gender Relations: Women in Fruit and Vegetable Production in Chile, Brazil and Mexico	160	(14)
Jane I. Collins
Inequality Near and Far: International Adoption as Seen from a Brazilian Favela	174	(21)
Claudia Fonseca
Part III Identities, Practices, Hybridities
History, Culture, and Place-Making: `Native' Status and Maya Identity in Belize	195	(18)
Laurie Kroshus Medina
The Carnivalization of the World	213	(16)
Richard Parker
``Playing with Fire'': The Gendered Construction of Chicana/Mexicana Sexuality	229	(16)
Patricia Zavella
Returned Migration, Language, and Identity: Puerto Rican Bilinguals in Dos Worlds/Two Mundos	245	(14)
Ana Celia Zentella
A Place Called Home: A Queer Political Economy of Mexican Immigrant Men's Family Experiences	259	(15)
Lionel Cantu
Dominican Blackness and the Modern World	274	(17)
Silvio Torres-Saillant
Part IV Popular Cultures
Jennifer's Butt	291	(8)
Frances Negron-Muntaner
La Quinceanera: Making Gender and Ethnic Identities	299	(18)
Karen Mary Davalos
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Modern Gaucho Identity in Brazil	317	(12)
Ruben George Oliven
The United States, Mexico, and Machismo	329	(13)
Americo Paredes
Spectacular Bodies: Folklorization and the Politics of Identity in Ecuadorian Beauty Pageants	342	(23)
Mark Rogers
Part V Regional, National, and Transnational Political Cultures
Gender, Politics, and the Triumph of Mestizaje in Early 20th-Century Nicaragua	365	(18)
Jeffrey Gould
The Construction of Indigenous Suspects: Militarization and the Gendered and Ethnic Dynamics of Human Rights Abuses in Southern Mexico	383	(21)
Lynn Stephen
For Whom the Taco Bells Toll: Popular Responses to NAFTA South of the Border	404	(14)
Matthew C. Gutmann
Immigration Reform and Nativism: The Nationalist Response to the Transnationalist Challenge	418	(12)
Leo R. Chavez
The Process of Black Community Organizing in the Southern Pacific Coast Region of Colombia	430	(18)
Libia Grueso
Carlos Rosero
Arturo Escobar
Index	448