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Human Rights in the Maya Region
Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
In recent years Latin American indigenous groups have regularly deployed the discourse of human rights to legitimate their positions and pursue their goals. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Maya region of Chiapas and Guatemala, where in the last two decades indigenous social movements...
New Languages of the State
Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
During the mid-1990s, a bilingual intercultural education initiative was launched to promote the introduction of indigenous languages alongside Spanish in public elementary schools in Bolivia’s indigenous regions. Bret Gustafson spent fourteen years studying and working in southeastern Bolivia with...
The Great Woman Singer
Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers—Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernández, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benítez—to explore how their voices and performance style transform the possibilities for comprehending the figure of the woman singer. Fiol-Matta shows how these...
On The Fly!
Hobo Literature and Songs, 1879-1941
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
From the 1870s until the Second World War, millions of Americans left their homes to board freight trains that would carry them vast distances, sometimes to waiting work, often to points unknown. Congregating in skid rows, socialising around campfires, and bringing in the nation's crops, these drifters...
by Mara Viveros Vigoya, Claudia Lee Williams Fonseca, Agustín Escobar Latapí
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2003
Ranging from fatherhood to machismo and from public health to housework, Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America is a collection of pioneering studies of what it means to be a man in Latin America. Matthew C. Gutmann brings together essays by well-known U.S. Latin Americanists and newly translated...
We Are All Equal
Student Culture and Identity at a Mexican Secondary School, 1988–1998
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2001
We Are All Equal is the first full-length ethnography of a Mexican secondary school available in English. Bradley A. U. Levinson observes student life at a provincial Mexican junior high, often drawing on poignant and illuminating interviews, to study how the the school’s powerful emphasis on equality,...
Wallowing in Sex
The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Passengers disco dancing in The Love Boat’s Acapulco Lounge. A young girl walking by a marquee advertising Deep Throat in the made-for-TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. A frustrated housewife borrowing Orgasm and You from her local library in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Commercial television...
Bound and Gagged
Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1998
In a book that completely changes the terms of the pornography debate, Laura Kipnis challenges the position that porn perpetuates misogyny and sex crimes. First published in 1996, Bound and Gagged opens with the chilling case of Daniel DePew, a man convicted—in the first computer bulletin board...
Listening in Detail
Performances of Cuban Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. It is also a powerful critique of efforts to define "Cuban music" for ethnographic examination or market...
Intimate Distance
Andean Music in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
What does it mean to play "someone else’s music"? Intimate Distance delves into this question through a focus on Bolivian musicians who tour Japan playing Andean music and Japanese audiences, who often go beyond fandom to take up these musical forms as hobbyists and even as professional...
Tuning Out Blackness
Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Tuning Out Blackness fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto Rican television. In exploring the political and cultural dynamics that have shaped racial representations in Puerto Rico’s commercial media from the late 1940s to the...
Cuba Represent!
Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2006
In Cuba something curious has happened over the past fifteen years. The government has allowed vocal criticism of its policies to be expressed within the arts. Filmmakers, rappers, and visual and performance artists have addressed sensitive issues including bureaucracy, racial and gender discrimination,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer theory, rarely mention disability, and foundational texts in disability studies do not discuss sex in much detail....
Touching Feeling
Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect, Sedgwick...