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“nerissa balce”

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  • Body Parts of Empire

    Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive

    by Prof. Nerissa Balce ...
    Body Parts of Empire is a study of abjection in American visual culture and popular literature from the Philippine-American War (1899–1902). During this period, the American national territory expanded beyond its continental borders to islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean. Simultaneously, new technologies of vision emerged for imagining the human body, including the moving camera, stereoscopes ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Filipinx American Studies

    Reckoning, Reclamation, Transformation

    by Rick Bonus, Antonio Tiongson Jr., Angelica Allen, Gina Apostol, Nerissa Balce, Victor Bascara, Jody Blanco, Alana Bock, Sony Coranez Bolton0, Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns1, Richard Chu2, Gary Colmenar3, Kim Compoc4, Denise Cruz5, Reuben Deleon6, Josen Diaz7, Robert Diaz8, Vernadette Gonzales9, Theodore Gonzalves0, Anna Guevarra1, Allan Punzalan Isaac2, Martin Manalansan3, Dina Maramba4, Cynthia Marasigan5, Edward Nadurata6, JoAnna Poblete7, Anthony Bayani Rodriguez8, Dylan Rodríguez9, Evelyn Rodriguez0, J. A. Ruanto-Ramirez1, Michael Schulze-Oechtering2, Sarita Echavez-See3, Roy Taggueg4 ...
    This volume spotlights the unique suitability and situatedness of Filipinx American studies both as a site for reckoning with the work of historicizing U.S. empire in all of its entanglements, as well as a location for reclaiming and theorizing the interlocking histories and contemporary trajectories of global capitalism, racism, sexism, and heteronormativity. It encompasses an interrogation of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Pedagogies of Crossing

    Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred

    by M. Jacqui Alexander, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
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    M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories, with some of her more recent work. In this landmark interdisciplinary volume, Alexander points to ... Read more

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  • Creole Indigeneity

    Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean

    by Shona N. Jackson ...
    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    During the colonial period in Guyana, the country’s coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana’s new natives, displacing indigenous peoples in the Caribbean through an extension of colonial attitudes and policies.Looking particularly ... Read more

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  • Where the River Ends

    Contested Indigeneity in the Mexican Colorado Delta

    by Shaylih Muehlmann ...
    Living in the northwest of Mexico, the Cucapá people have relied on fishing as a means of subsistence for generations, but in the last several decades, that practice has been curtailed by water scarcity and government restrictions. The Colorado River once met the Gulf of California near the village where Shaylih Muehlmann conducted ethnographic research, but now, as a result of a treaty, 90 ... Read more

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  • Filipinos in Canada

    Disturbing Invisibility

    by Bonnie McElhinny, Ethel Tungohan, John Paul Catungal, Roland Sintos Coloma, Lisa M. Davidson ...
    The Philippines became Canada’s largest source of short- and long-term migrants in 2010, surpassing China and India, both of which are more than ten times larger. The fourth-largest racialized minority group in the country, the Filipino community is frequently understood by such figures as the victimized nanny, the selfless nurse, and the gangster youth. On one hand, these narratives concentrate ... Read more

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  • Exotic No More

    Anthropology for the Contemporary World

    Edited by Jeremy MacClancy ...
    "This excellent collection of essays by some of the leading lights of anthropology provides paths from the never more pressing question 'what is to be done?'" —Catherine Lutz, University of North Caroline at Chapel HillIn this new edition of the anthropological classic Exotic No More, some of today's most respected anthropologists demonstrate the tremendous contributions that anthropological ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Transpacific Femininities

    The Making of the Modern Filipina

    by Denise Cruz ...
    In this groundbreaking study, Denise Cruz investigates the importance of the figure she terms the "transpacific Filipina" to Philippine nationalism, women's suffrage, and constructions of modernity. Her analysis illuminates connections between the rise in the number of Philippine works produced in English and the emergence of new social classes of transpacific women during the early to mid ... Read more

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  • Queer and Trans Migrations

    Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation

    by Eithne Luibheid, Karma R. Chavez, Anna Carastathis, Jack Caraves, Ryan Conrad, Katherine Fobear, Monisha Das Gupta, Jamila Hammami, Edward Ou Jin Lee0, Leece Lee-Oliver1, Hana Masri2, Yasmin Nair3, Bamby Salcedo4, Fadi Saleh5, Rafael Ramirez Solorzano6, José Guadalupe Herrera Soto7, Myrto Tsilimpounidi8, Suyapa Portillo Villeda9, Sasha Wijeyeratne0, Ruben Zecena1, AB Brown2, Elif Sari3, Julio Capo Jr.4 ...
    Series series Dissident Feminisms
    More than a quarter of a million LGBTQ-identified migrants in the United States lack documentation and constantly risk detention and deportation. LGBTQ migrants around the world endure similarly precarious situations. Eithne Luibhéid's and Karma R. Chávez’s edited collection provides a first-of-its-kind look at LGBTQ migrants and communities. The academics, activists, and artists in the volume ... Read more

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  • U.S. Central Americans

    Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance

    Edited by Karina Oliva Alvarado, Alicia Ivonne Estrada, Ester E. Hernández ...
    In summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America to the United States gained mainstream visibility—yet migration from Central America has been happening for decades. U.S. Central Americans explores the shared yet distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and second-generation Central Americans in the United States.While much has been written about U.S. and ... Read more

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