Latin American Studies

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Reframing the Practice of Philosophy

Reflections by leading Latin American and African American philosophers on their identity within the field of philosophy.

¡VIVA!

Compelling case studies of groups in Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, the United States, and Canada using the arts for education, community development, and social movement building.

Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America, Second Edition

A comprehensive assessment of how race and ethnicity affect the places we live, work, and visit.

Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America

A comprehensive assessment of how race and ethnicity affect the places we live, work, and visit.

Cuban-American Literature and Art

Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.

Burning Darkness

Encourages a deep reading of a selection of essential Spanish films.

Images of Thought

Explores the relationship between philosophy and art through the work of Cuban American artist Carlos Estévez.

Identity, Memory, and Diaspora

Offers a detailed picture of the lives of Cuban Americans through interviews with artists, writers, and philosophers.

Global Fragments

Philosophical explorations of the processes of globalization, particularly in the context of Latin America.

Reading Borges after Benjamin

Together with original readings of some of Benjamin’s finest essays, this book examines a series of Borges’s works as allegories of Argentine modernity.

The Role of History in Latin American Philosophy

Argues that there are original positions to be found in the work of Latin American philosophers.

Between Argentines and Arabs

Examines the presence of Arabs and the Arab world in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Argentine literature by juxtaposing works by Argentines of European descent and those written by Arab immigrants in Argentina.

Puerto Rico under Colonial Rule

Essays on human rights in Puerto Rico during the twentieth century.

Linking the Americas

Provides a comparative look at women's texts across the Americas.

Social Movements and Free-Market Capitalism in Latin America

Explores how privatization of state-owned telephone companies led to new consumer movements in Latin America.

Jamaica Kincaid

Offers a new perspective on the psychological and affective dynamics of Jamaica Kincaid’s fiction and nonfiction.

Redreaming America

Pursues an inquiry into the cultural and linguistic dissonances that Spanish creates in the United States.

Latin American Women On/In Stages

Compares plays by Latin American women dramatists born after 1945.

Humoring Resistance

Analyzes the explosive connections among strategic uses of humor, women's bodies, and resistance in fiction by Latin American women writers.

A Geography of Hard Times

Unravels the rich complexities of the colonial travel experience.

Voice-Overs

Writers, translators, and critics explore the cultural politics and transnational impact of Latin American literature.

Systems of Violence

Examines the conditions that have led to protracted violence in Colombia.

Re-reading Jose Martí (1853-1895)

Re-evaluates Jose Marti's contribution to Latin America's literature and political evolution.

From Pirates to Drug Lords

Examines Caribbean countries' impact on the U. S. and the world and how they have consolidated their democracies, advanced prosperity, and maintained peace through collective security and international cooperation.

Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion

By examining the ways that Catholic activists responded to political violence in El Salvador during the 1970s and 1980s, this book documents the beliefs and history of an important religious community, and explores the nature of religion's role in poli

Over the Ivy Walls

Explores social factors that lead to academic success for low-income Chicanos.

Latin-American Women Writers

This book describes how Latin-American women writers of all classes, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, ironize masculinist, classicist, and racist cliches in their narratives.

The Leaning Ivory Tower

Several narratives by Latino professors in American universities addressing issues of racism, marginalization, and self-valuation as the narrators tell their stories of survival and success.

Subject People and Colonial Discourses

This book rethinks the social processes that violently refashioned Puerto Rican society in the first half of the twentieth century. Santiago-Valles explores how the new regime's socio-economic, political, ...

Cultural Identity and Social Liberation in Latin American Thought

This book defines the relationship between liberation and cultural identity in the Latin American social reality--from a historically rooted, critical philosophy. Schutte explores the connections between ...

Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America

This book explores the impact of Latin America's political culture on the international politics of the region. It offers a general account of traditional Iberian political culture while examining how ...

The Catholic Church and Social Change in Nicaragua

This book presents an in-depth, uniquely historical perspective on Nicaragua, focusing on the key role of the Catholic Church in the political, social, and religious issues that confront this country ...

Jesuit Ranches and the Agrarian Development of Colonial Argentina, 1650-1767

Jesuit Ranches and the Agrarian Development of Colonial Argentina, 1650-1767, is the last book in a trilogy that examines Jesuit economic activity in three major geographic regions of colonial Spanish ...

Farm and Factory

This second volume of Nicholas P. Cushner's economic study of colonial Latin America describes and analyzes the unique relationship between the textile mill and farm in Interandine Quito. Cushner shows ...

The Gaucho Martín Fierro

This is a poem of protest drawn from the life of the gaucho, who was forced to yield his freedom and individuality to the social and material changes that invaded his beloved pampas--a protest which arose ...