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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