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Infertilities
An original analysis of the role of female reproduction in the project of empire.In today’s global market, ideas about family, femininity, and reproduction are traded on as …
Ethnography At The Border
An illuminating account of life at the U.S.-Mexico borderFor cultural theorists, “the border” has proven a fluid and hybrid space profitably explored for new ideas about identity, …
Latin Americanism
Analyzes the way North American academics have constructed Latin America.In this timely book, Román de la Campa asks to what degree the Latin America studied in U.S. academies is …
Masking And Power
An ambitious reassessment of the political uses of masking.Does the mask reveal more than it conceals? What, this book asks, becomes visible and invisible in the masking practiced …
Cuban Currency
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, during an economic crisis termed its “special period in times of peace,” Cuba began to court the capitalist world for the first …
The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism
The only recent English-language work on Spanish-American indigenismo from a literary perspective, Estelle Tarica’s work shows how modern Mexican and Andean discourses about the …
Fence and the River
The U.S.-Mexico border has not only been the site of volatile debates, most recently prompted by migration policies and NAFTA, but it has also been a source of artistic …
Music In Cuba
Originally published in 1946 and never before available in English, Music in Cuba is not only the best and most extensive study of Cuban musical history, it is a work of …
Critical Latin American And Latino Studies
Situates these dynamic disciplines within debates around globalizationThis book brings together some of the most prominent scholars working across the spectrum of Latin American …
Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints
Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints investigates cultural icons of the late nineteenth century from Mexico’s largely unstudied northwest borderlands, present-day Sonora, Baja …
Couture and Consensus
Following Argentina’s revolution in 1810, the dress of young patriots inspired a nation and distanced its politics from the relics of Spanish colonialism. Fashion writing often …
Rain Forest Literatures
Recaptures native literatures of the Amazonian rain forestNative texts of the Amazonian rain forest have been viewed as myth or ethnographic matter—the raw material of …