Browse by Subject: Latin American Studies

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Afro-Cuban Costumbrismo: From Plantations to the Slums

Rafael Ocasio delves into Costumbrismo and Cuban literature to offer up a new perspective on the development of Cuban identity, as influenced by black culture and religion, during the sugar cane boom.

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Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America

Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America offers a new, dynamic discussion of the experience of blackness and cultural difference, black political mobilization, and state responses to Afro-Latin activism throughout Latin America.

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Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies

Explains and contextualizes fifty-four key terms and theories, including some general concepts in cultural studies as they relate to research in Latin America, and some specific to the field of Latin American studies.

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Trance and Modernity in the Southern Caribbean: African and Hindu Popular Religions in Trinidad and Tobago

Keith McNeal reveals the unexpected ways traditions of trance performance have become both globalized and modernized.

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Matanzas: The Cuba Nobody Knows

A guided tour of the captivating city less than one hundred miles from Florida

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The History of Brazil under the Governorship of Count Johan Maurits of Nassau, 1636–1644

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Transnational Politics in Central America

In Transnational Politics in Central America, Luis Roniger argues for the importance of examining the connected history, close relationships and mutual impact of the societies of Central America upon one another.

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São Paulo: Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production

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Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru

Yo Soy Negro is the first book in English--in fact, the first book in any language in more than two decades--to address what it means to be black in Peru.

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Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction

From the rainforests of Costa Rica and the Amazon to the windswept lands of Tierra del Fuego, Laura Barbas-Rhoden discusses the natural settings within contemporary Latin American novels as they depict key moments of environmental change or crisis in the region from the nineteenth-century imperialism to the present.