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Writing Taiwan
A New Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
W**riting Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese authors and works...
by Paulo Fontes
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Published in 2008 and winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo is a detailed social history of São Paulo's extraordinary urban and industrial expansion. Fontes focuses on those migrants who settled in the suburb of São Miguel Paulista,...
by Sue Peabody
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
This groundbreaking collection provides the first comparative history of gender and emancipation in the Atlantic world. Bringing together essays on the United States, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, West Africa and South Africa, and the Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean, it shows that emancipation was...
Border Dilemmas
Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848–1912
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
The U.S.-Mexican War officially ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which called for Mexico to surrender more than one-third of its land. The treaty offered Mexicans living in the conquered territory a choice between staying there or returning to Mexico by moving south...
El Alto, Rebel City
Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
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: El Alto, where more than three-quarters of the population identify as indigenous Aymara. For several...
Between the Guerrillas and the State
The Cocalero Movement, Citizenship, and Identity in the Colombian Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Responding to pressure from the United States, the Colombian government in 1996 intensified aerial fumigation of coca plantations in the western Amazon region. This crackdown on illicit drug cultivation sparked an uprising among the region’s cocaleros, small-scale coca producers and harvest workers....
Who Can Stop the Drums?
Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
In this vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Sujatha Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chávez was elected. Fernandes traces the histories of the barrios, from the guerrilla insurgency, movements...
The Spectacular City
Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2004
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 find that the rights of citizens—basic rights of property and security, especially protection from...
by Jocelyn H. Olcott, Robyn Wiegman, Inderpal Grewal
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2006
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico is an empirically rich history of women’s political organizing during a critical stage of regime consolidation. Rebutting the image of Mexican women as conservative and antirevolutionary, Jocelyn Olcott shows women activists challenging prevailing...
Visions of the Emerald City
Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2006
Visions of the Emerald City is an absorbing historical analysis of how Mexicans living in Oaxaca City experienced “modernity” during the lengthy “Order and Progress” dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1911). Renowned as the Emerald City (for its many buildings made of green cantera stone),...
Managing African Portugal
The Citizen-Migrant Distinction
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
In Managing African Portugal, Kesha Fikes shows how the final integration of Portugal’s economic institutions into the European Union (EU) in the late 1990s changed everyday encounters between African migrants and Portuguese citizens. This economic transition is examined through transformations...
Zapotec Women
Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
In this extensively revised and updated second edition of her classic ethnography, Lynn Stephen explores the intersection of gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity in southern Mexico. She provides a detailed study of how the lives of women weavers and merchants in the Zapotec-speaking town of Teotitlán...
The Hypersexuality of Race
Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
In The Hypersexuality of Race, Celine Parreñas Shimizu urges a shift in thinking about sexualized depictions of Asian/American women in film, video, and theatrical productions. Shimizu advocates moving beyond denunciations of sexualized representations of Asian/American women as necessarily demeaning...
Working the Boundaries
Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
While Chicago has the second-largest Mexican population among U.S. cities, relatively little ethnographic attention has focused on its Mexican community. This much-needed ethnography of Mexicans living and working in Chicago examines processes of racialization, labor subordination, and class formation;...