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  • Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence

    by Eduardo P. Archetti, Ann S. Blum, Alejandra Bronfman, Arlene J. Díaz, Lessie Jo Frazier, William E. French, James N. Green, Cymene Howe, David S. Parker0, Pablo Piccato1, Lara E. Putnam2, Wendy A. Vogt3, Erica M. Windler4 ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    Featuring the original primary research of a number of leading scholars, this innovative volume integrates gender and sexuality into the main currents of historical interpretation concerning Latin America. The book argues that gender and sexuality-rather than simply supplementing existing explanations of political, social, cultural, and economic phenomena-are central to understanding these ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Intimate Activism

    The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua

    by Cymene Howe ...
    Intimate Activism tells the story of Nicaraguan sexual-rights activists who helped to overturn the most repressive antisodomy law in the Americas. The law was passed shortly after the Sandinistas lost power in 1990 and, to the surprise of many, was repealed in 2007. In this vivid ethnography, Cymene Howe analyzes how local activists balanced global discourses regarding human rights and identity ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Impulse to Act

    A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice

    by Jessica Greenberg, Eirine Avramapoulou, Irene Peano, James D. Faubion, Neni Panourgia, Tania Ahmad, Cymene Howe, Petra Rethmann, John Postill, Marianne Maeckelbergh, Alex Khasnabish, Athanasiou Athena ...
    What drives people to take to the streets in protest? What is their connection to other activists and how does that change over time? How do seemingly spontaneous activist movements emerge, endure, and evolve, especially when they lack a leader and concrete agenda? How does one analyze a changing political movement immersed in contingency? Impulse to Act addresses these questions incisively, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ecologics

    Wind and Power in the Anthropocene

    by Cymene Howe ...
    Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph—a combination of two single-authored books that draw on shared fieldsites, archives, and encounters that can be ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • 21st Century Sexualities

    Contemporary Issues in Health, Education, and Rights

    Edited by Gilbert Herdt, Cymene Howe ...
    Exploring sexuality in the twenty-first century, this unique book collects together more than fifty timely and accessible contributions to create a wide-ranging and compelling picture of contemporary American sexuality.Incorporating the latest cutting-edge controversies, theory and methodological material from the major domains of sexual education, sexual health, sexual rights, and globalization, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia

    by Sian Lazar, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    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 years, El Alto has been at the heart of resistance to neoliberal market reforms, such as the export ... Read more

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  • The Meanings of Macho

    Being a Man in Mexico City

    by Matthew C. Gutmann ...
    Series Book 3 - Men and Masculinity
    In this compelling study of machismo in Mexico City, Matthew Gutmann overturns many stereotypes of male culture in Mexico and offers a sensitive and often surprising look at how Mexican men see themselves, parent their children, relate to women, and talk about sex. This tenth anniversary edition features a new preface that updates the stories of the book's key protagonists. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Deeply Rooted in the Present

    Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos

    by Mary Lorena Kenny ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances. The book includes supplementary exercises that encourage readers to make connections between the case study at hand, their own heritage, and heritage ... Read more

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  • Race in Cuba

    Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality

    by Gary Prevost, Esteban Morales Domínguez, August Nimtz ...
    As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Domínguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian society. But Morales Dominguez, an Afro-Cuban, knew that the complicated question of race could not be ignored, or simply willed away in a post ... Read more

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  • Pigmentocracies

    Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America

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    $18.99 USD

  • Keywords for Latina/o Studies

    Edited by Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Deborah R. Vargas, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes ...
    Series Book 6 - Keywords
    2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by CHOICE MagazineIntroduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Latinx StudiesKeywords for Latina/o Studies is a generative text that enhances the ongoing dialogue within a rapidly growing and changing field. The keywords included in this collection represent established and emergent terms, categories, and concepts that undergird Latina/o studies ... Read more

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  • iVenceremos?

    The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba

    by Jafari Sinclaire Allen ...
    Series series Perverse modernities
    Promoting the revolutionary socialist project of equality and dignity for all, the slogan ¡Venceremos! (We shall overcome!) appears throughout Cuba, everywhere from newspapers to school murals to nightclubs. Yet the accomplishments of the Cuban state are belied by the marginalization of blacks, the prejudice against sexual minorities, and gender inequities. ¡Venceremos? is a groundbreaking ... Read more

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