Race, colonialism, and social transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean / edited by Jerome Branche.

Other author Branche, Jerome.
Format Book
Publication InfoGainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2008.
Descriptionviii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects
National characteristics, Latin American.
National characteristics, Caribbean.
Social change--Latin America.
Social change--Caribbean Area.
Latin America--Race relations.
Caribbean Area--Race relations.

Contents From meticulous oblivion to unexpected return : the variable fate of indigenous people in the Uruguayan imaginary of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries / Gustavo Verdesio -- Coloring the social structure : racial politics during the Duvalierist dictatorial regime of 1957-87 / Carolle Charles -- The imagined republic of Puerto Rican populism in world-historical context : the poetics of plantation fantasies and the petit-coloniality of Criollo Blanchitude, 1914-48 / Kelvin Santiago-Valles -- Racism and its masks in Brazil : on racism and the idea of harmony / Gislene Aparecida dos Santos -- Revolutionary spiritualities in Chiapas today : immanent history and the comparative frame in subaltern studies / José Rabasa -- New cartographies of the Bolivian state in the context of the Constituent Assembly, 2006-2007 / Denise Y. Arnold -- Savage emergence : toward a decolonial Aymara methodology for cultural survival / Marcia Stephenson -- Race, ethnicity, and nation in Manuel Zapata Olivella's ¡Levántate mulato! : rethinking identity in Latin America / Laurence Prescott -- Afro-centrism as an intercultural force in Ecuador / Michael Handelsman -- Creole counterdiscourses and French departmental hegemony : reclaiming "here" from "there" / H. Adlai Murdoch.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008025008
ISBN9780813032641 (alk. paper)
ISBN0813032644 (alk. paper)

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