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  • Infrastructures of Race

    Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico

    by Daniel Nemser ...
    Series series Border Hispanisms
    Winner, Humanities Book Prize, Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association, 2018Many scholars believe that the modern concentration camp was born during the Cuban war for independence when Spanish authorities ordered civilians living in rural areas to report to the nearest city with a garrison of Spanish troops. But the practice of spatial concentration—gathering people and things in ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • The Gestapo

    The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police

    by Frank McDonough ...
    A new, comprehensive exploration of the Gestapo from a renowned historian of the Third Reich.Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this book relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing accounts of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordinary people who opposed the Nazi regime. It also tells the equally disturbing stories of the involvement of the German ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Racisms

    From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century

    by Francisco Bethencourt ...
    " Racisms impresses the reader by its author's vast reading, his thoroughness and precision . . . intellectual ambition, and [its] visual and textual sources." —Peter Burke, University of CambridgeRacisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Latin America in Colonial Times

    by Matthew Restall, Kris Lane ...
    Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but informative new package, revealing how a new civilization and region - Latin America - emerged from that encounter. The authors give equal attention to the Spanish ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • The Boys from Dolores

    Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile

    by Patrick Symmes ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    From the author of Chasing Che, here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s from among the most affluent and ambitious families in eastern Cuba, they were groomed at the elite Colegio de Dolores for achievement and leadership. Instead, they were swept into war, revolution, and exile by two of their own number, Fidel and ... Read more

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  • Pigmentocracies

    Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America

    by Edward Telles ...
    Pigmentocracies — the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) — is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin America’s most populous nations. Based on extensive, original sociological and anthropological data generated by PERLA, this landmark study analyzes ethnoracial ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Red Star Over Malaya

    Resistance and Social Conflict During and After the Japanese Occupation, 1941-1946

    by Boon Kheng Cheah ...
    Red Star Over Malaya is an account of the inter-racial relations between Malays and Chinese during the final stages of the Japanese occupation. In 1947, none of the three major race of Malaya - Malays, Chinese, and Indians - regarded themselves as pan-ethnic "Malayans" with common duties and problems. With the occupation forcibly cut them off from China, Chinese residents began to look inwards ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Hour of Eugenics"

    Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America

    by Nancy Leys Stepan ...
    Stepan's warning regarding the politics of scientific interpretation in the future seems most appropriate.... This is an important book, meticulously done, and will be of significant value to Latin Americanists (especially Brazilianists), to historians of science and medicine and to those concerned with the history of ideas as well as those interested in the rise (and fall?) of eugenics.―American ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Blackness Visible

    Essays on Philosophy and Race

    by Charles W. Mills ...
    "This is an important collection. Its organizing theme is that by analyzing the metaphysics of race-creating we can understand the importance of political analyses of the racial state. This claim is vital not only for understanding of contemporary racial problems, but also for enriching our understanding of philosophical anthropology."―Lewis R. Gordon, Brown UniversityCharles Mills makes visible ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Confederacy of Silence

    A True Tale of the New Old South

    by Richard Rubin ...
    In this stunning twist on the timeless tale of an outsider fascinated by a closed society, a young Jewish writer goes back to Greenwood, Mississippi, where he had his first newspaper job, and covers a murder trial that challenges his notions of both the South and himself.When Richard Rubin, fresh out of the Ivy League, accepts a job at a daily newspaper in the old Delta town of Greenwood, ... Read more

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  • Seeing Through Race

    by W. J. T. Mitchell ...
    Series series The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
    According to W. J. T. Mitchell, a “color-blind” post-racial world is neither achievable nor desirable. Against popular claims that race is an outmoded construct that distracts from more important issues, Mitchell contends that race remains essential to our understanding of social reality. Race is not simply something to be seen but is among the fundamental media through which we experience human ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • 100 Questions and Answers About Hispanics and Latinos

    A cultural competence guide to understanding the diversity of the largest minority group in the United States including Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Salvadorans, Cubans and more

    by Michigan State University School of Journalism ...
    This simple, introductory guide answers 100 of the questions people ask in everyday conversation. It covers the basics of Hispanic and Latino identity, terms, geography, language, religion, social norms, politics, immigration and deportation, education, work, money, families, culture, health and food. Major countries of origin are Mexico, Puerto Rico, El Salvador and Cuba. This guide is for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus