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  • The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora

    Transatlantic Musings

    Series series Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora
    This book studies the creative discourse of the modern African diaspora by analyzing poems, novels, essays, hip-hop and dub poetry in the Caribbean, England, Spain, and Colombia, and capturing diasporan movement through mutually intersecting axes of dislocation and relocation, and efforts at political group affirmation and settlement, or “location.” Branche’s study connects London’s multimillion ... Read more

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  • Scaling New Heights

    In this, their first collection, Pakaraima Writers have produced a vast array of poems and short pieces, by poets, short story writers and novelists, some already published in prior journals, some relatively new, all engaging enough to hold the reader spellbound. There are pieces that remind us of our Guyanese Heritage from poets in poems like Trails of Treasures by Janet Naidu, Guyana's Seawall ... Read more

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  • Diversity in Higher Education Remote Learning

    A Practical Guide

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides fundamental principles of remote instruction and classroom management for diversity. Chapters explore the requisite characteristics of higher education administration and infrastructure that support both online and hybrid learning. It draws on proven practices to help research intensive faculty, instructional and clinical faculty, and adjunct faculty deliver efficient and ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Race, Colonialism, and Social Transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Edited by Jerome Branche ...
    This collection of essays offers a comprehensive overview of colonial legacies of racial and social inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. Rich in theoretical framework and close textual analysis, these essays offer new paradigms and approaches to both reading and resolving the opposing forces of race, class, and the power of states. The contributors are drawn from a variety of fields, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America

    Edited by Jerome C. Branche ...
    Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural life of former enslaved Africans and their descendants. A world of cultural production, in the form of literature, poetry, art, music, and eventually film, would often simultaneously contravene or cooperate with the newly established order of Latin American nations ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Paths for Cuba

    Reforming Communism in Comparative Perspective

    Series series Pitt Latin American Series
    The Cuban model of communism has been an inspiration—from both a positive and negative perspective—for social movements, political leaders, and cultural expressionists around the world. With changes in leadership, the pace of change has accelerated following decades of economic struggles. The death of Fidel Castro and the reduced role of Raúl Castro seem likely to create further changes, though ... Read more

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  • Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic

    Edited by Jerome C Branche ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora
    Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic is an interdisciplinary collection of essays of wide historical and geographic scope which engages the legacy of diaspora, colonialism and slavery.The contributors explore the confrontation between Africa’s forced migrants and their unwelcoming new environments, in order to highlight the unique individual experiences of survival and ... Read more

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  • Trajectories of Empire

    Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora

    Trajectories of Empire extends from the beginning of the Iberian expansion of the mid-fifteenth century, through colonialism and slavery, and into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Latin American republics. Its point of departure is the question of empire and its aftermath as reflected in the lives of contemporary Latin Americans of African descent and of their ancestors in the ... Read more

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    The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America

    Latin America is characterized by a uniquely rich history of cultural and racial mixtures known collectively as mestizaje. These mixtures reflect the influences of indigenous peoples from Latin America, Europeans, and Africans, and spawn a fascinating and often volatile blend of cultural practices and products. Yet no scholarly study to date has provided an articulate context for fully ... Read more

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  • Colonial Phantoms

    Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present

    by Dixa Ramírez ...
    Series Book 28 - Nation of Nations
    Winner, 2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize, given by the Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies AssociationWinner, 2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies AssociationHighlights the histories and cultural expressions of the Dominican peopleUsing a blend of historical and literary analysis, Colonial Phantoms reveals how Western discourses have ghosted ... Read more

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  • A New History of Iberian Feminisms

    Series series Toronto Iberic
    A New History of Iberian Feminisms is both a chronological history and an analytical discussion of feminist thought in the Iberian Peninsula, including Portugal, and the territories of Spain – the Basque Provinces, Catalonia, and Galicia – from the eighteenth century to the present day.The Iberian Peninsula encompasses a dynamic and fraught history of feminism that had to contend with entrenched ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Latin America

    The Allure and Power of an Idea

    "Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively.Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three ... Read more

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