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

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 301 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary This collection of essays offers an overview of colonial legacies of racial and social inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. Rich in theoretical framework and close textual analysis, they offers new paradigms and approaches to both reading and resolving the opposing forces of race, class, and the power states.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Latin America -- Race relations.
Latin America.
Race relations.
Caribbean Area -- Race relations.
Caribbean Area.
National characteristics, Latin American.
National characteristics, Latin American.
National characteristics, Caribbean.
National characteristics, Caribbean.
Social change -- Latin America.
Social change.
Social change -- Caribbean Area.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Branche, Jerome.
Other Form: Print version: Race, colonialism, and social transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2008 9780813032641 (DLC) 2008025008 (OCoLC)226356598
ISBN 9780813039947 (electronic book)
0813039940 (electronic book)
9780813032641
0813032644