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Understanding the Américas: insights from Latino/a and Latin American studies / Lynn Stephen ... [et al.] -- Traddutora, traditora: a paradigmatic figure of Chicana feminism / Norma Alarcón -- From the plantation to the plantation (excerpt) / Antonio Benítez-Rojo -- New approaches to the study of peasant rebellion and consciousness: implications of the Andean experience / Steve J. Stern -- The real "new world order": the globalization of racial and ethnic relations in the late twentieth century / Néstor P. Rodríguez -- The Americans: Latin American and Caribbean peoples in the United States / Rubén G. Rumbaut -- "Quién Trabajará?" domestic workers, urban slaves, and the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico / Félix V. Matos Rodríguez -- A central American genocide: rubber, slavery, nationalism, and the destruction of the Guatusos-Malekus / Marc Edelman -- Transnational labor process and gender relations: women in fruit and vegetable production in Chile, Brazil and Mexico / Jane I. Collins -- Inequality near and far: international adoption as seen from a Brazilian favela / Claudia Fonseca -- History, culture, and place-making: 'native' status and Maya identity in Belize / Laurie Kroshus Medina -- The carnivalization of the world / Richard Parker -- "Playing with fire": the gendered construction of chicana/Mexicana sexuality / Patricia Zavella -- Returned migration, language, and identity: Puerto Rican bilinguals in dos worlds/two mundos / Ana Celia Zentella -- A place called home: a queer political economy of Mexican immigrant men's family experiences / Lionel Cantú -- Dominican blackness and the modern world / Silvio Torres-Saillant -- Jennifer's butt / Frances Negrón-Muntaner -- La quinceañera: making gender and ethnic identities / Karen Mary Davalos -- Two sides of the same coin: modern gaúcho identity in Brazil / Ruben George Oliven -- The United States, Mexico, and machismo / Américo Paredes -- Spectacular bodies: folklorization and the politics of identity in Ecuadorian beauty pageants / Mark Rogers -- Gender, politics, and the triumph of mestizaje in early 20th-century Nicaragua / Jeffrey Gould -- The construction of indigenous suspects: militarization and the gendered and ethnic dynamics of human rights abuses in southern Mexico / Lynn Stephen -- For whom the Taco Bells toll: popular responses to NAFTA south of the border / Matthew C. Gutmann -- Immigration reform and nativism: the nationalist response to the transnationalist challenge / Leo R. Chavez -- The process of black community organizing in the southern Pacific coast region of Colombia / Libia Grueso, Carlos Rosero, and Arturo Escobar. |
