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  We Are in This Dance Together
Subtitle: Gender, Power, and Globalization at a Mexican Garment Firm
Author: Nancy Plankey-Videla
Pages:
264 pages
Publication Date:
July 2012

Return to Centro Histórico
Subtitle: A Mexican Jew Looks for His Roots
Author:
Ilan Stavans
Pages: 208 pages
Publication Date:
February 2012

José Vasconcelos
Subtitle: The Prophet of Race
Author: Ilan Stavans

Pages: 128 pages
Publication Date:
May 2011


The Making of Chicana/o Studies
Subtitle: In the Trenches of Academe
Author: Rodolfo F. Acuña

Pages: 384 pages
Publication Date:
August 2011

Luso-American Literature
Subtitle: Writings by Portuguese-Speaking Authors in North America
Edited and with an introduction by Robert Henry Moser and Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta

Pages:
416 pages
Publication Date:
August 2011

Leadership From the Margins Leadership From the Margins
Subtitle: Women and Civil Society Organizations in Argentina, Chile, and El Salvador
Author: Serena Cosgrove
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: September 2010


Revolutionizing Romance
Revolutionizing Romance
Subtitle: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba
Author: Nadine T. Fernandez
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: March 2010



Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Subtitle: Engendering Social Justice, Democratizing Citizenship
Edited and with an Introduction by Elizabeth Maier and Nathalie Lebon
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: June 2010

Everyday Revolutionaries
Subtitle: Gender, Violence, and Disillusionment in Postwar El Salvador
Author: Irina Carlota Silber
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: December 2010
Series: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights


Healing the Body Politic
Healing the Body Politic
Subtitle: El Salvador's Popular Struggle for Health Rights from Civil war to Neoliberal Peace
Editor:
Sandy Smith-Nonini
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: March 2010
Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology


Bodies in Crisis
Bodies in Crisis
Subtitle: Culture, Violence, and Women's Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina
Author:
Barbara Sutton
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: March 2010

Digital Dilemmas Digital Dilemmas
Subtitle:
The State, the Individual, and Digital Media in Cuba
Author: Cristina Venegas
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February 2010
Series: New Directions in International Studies

An Island Called Home
First Paperback Edition
An Island Called Home

Subtitle: Returning to Jewish Cuba
Author: Ruth Behar
Photographs:
Humberto Mayol

Edition: Paper
Publication Date: March 2009

In the Shadow on the Giant In the Shadow of the Giant
Subtitle: The Americanization of Modern Mexico
Author: Joseph Contreras
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: March 2009

    Pleasures and Perils
Subtitle: Girls’ Sexuality in a Caribbean Consumer Culture
Author: Debra Curtis
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February 2009
Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
 
Homecoming Queers Homecoming Queers
Subtitle: Desire and Difference in Chicana Latina Cultural Production
Author: Marivel T. Danielson
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: August 2009
Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States

Side DishesAutobiography of an Androgyne Side Dishes
Subtitle: Latina American Women, Sex, and Cultural Production
Author: Melissa A. Fitch
Editions: Paper/Cloth

Publication Date: July 2009
Series: New Directions in International Studies

Day of the Dead in the USA Day of the Dead in the USA
Subtitle: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon
Author: Regina M.  Marchi
Editions: Paper/Cloth

Publication Date: July 2009
Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States

Indianizing FilmHindu Primary Sources Indianizing Film
Subtitle: Decolonization, the Andes, and the Question of Technology
Author: Freya Schiwy
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: May 2009
Series: New Directions in International Studies



To Change the World
Subtitle: My Years in Cuba
Author: Margaret Randall
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February 2009

    An Uncertain Cure
Subtitle: Living with Leprosy in Brazil
Author: Cassandra White
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February 2009
Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology
 

Conversion of a Continent
Conversion of a Continent
Subtitle: Contemporary Religious Change in Latin America 
Editors: Timothy J. Steigenga and Edward L. Cleary
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: January 2008


An Island Called Home
An Island Called Home
Subtitle: Returning to Jewish Cuba
Author:
Ruth Behar
Photographs by: Humberto Mayol
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: November 2007

Decoding GenderDecoding Gender Decoding Gender
Subtitle: Law and Practice in Contemporary Mexico
Editors: Helga Baitenmann, Victoria Chenaut, and Ann Varley
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: August 2007

Negras in Brazil Negras in Brazil
Subtitle: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity
Author: Kia Lilly Caldwell
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February 2007

Fulgencio Batista Fulgencio Batista
Subtitle: Volume 1, From Revolutionary to Strongman
Author: Frank Argote-Freyre
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: February 2006

Shipwrecked Identities Shipwrecked Identities
Subtitle: Navigating Race on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast
Author: Baron L. Pineda
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: May 2006

Beyond Sun and Sand Beyond Sun and Sand
Subtitle: Caribbean Environmentalisms
Author: Sherrie L. Baver, Barbara Deutsch Lynch
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: December 2005


Who Defines Indigenous?
Who Defines Indigenous?
Subtitle: Identities, Development, Intellectuals, and the State in Northern Mexico
Author: Carmen Martinez Novo
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: December 2005

Liquid Relations Liquid Relations
Subtitle: Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity
Author: Dik Roth, Rutgerd Boelens, Margreet Zwarteveen
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: November 2005

Inside Colombia
Inside Colombia
Subtitle: Drugs, Democracy, and War
Author: Grace Livingstone
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: July 2004


Pobladoras, Indígenas, and the State
Pobladoras, Indígenas, and the State
Subtitle: Conflict Over Women's Rights in Chile
Author: Patricia Richards
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: June 2004


The Revolution Question
The Revolution Question
Subtitle: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba
Author: Julie D. Shayne
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: September 2004

Resurgent Voices in Latin America Resurgent Voices in Latin America
Subtitle: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change
Author: Edward L. Cleary, Timothy J. Steigenga
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: October 2004

Mestizo Modernism
Mestizo Modernism
Subtitle: Race, Nation, and Identity in Latin American Culture, 1900-1940
Author: Tace Hedrick
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: May 2003

Globalizing the Sacred Globalizing the Sacred
Subtitle: Religion across the Americas
Author: Manuel A. Vsquez, Marie Friedmann Marquardt
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: August 2003
Producing Dreams, Consuming Youth Producing Dreams, Consuming Youth
Subtitle: Mexican Americans and Mass Media
Author: Vicki Mayer
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: November 2003

Postnationalism Prefigured
Postnationalism Prefigured
Subtitle: Caribbean Borderlands
Author: Charles V. Carnegie
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: September 2002


Gender in Latin America
Gender in Latin America
Author: Sylvia Chant with Nikki Craske
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: November 2002



Making Home in Havana
Making Home in Havana
Author: Cecelia, text Lawless, Vincenzo Pietropaolo, photographs
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: October 2002

When I Look into the Mirror and See You When I Look into the Mirror and See You
Subtitle: Women, Terror, and Resistance
Author: Margaret Randall
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: November 2002
Military Power and Popular Protest Military Power and Popular Protest
Subtitle: The U.S. Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico
Author: Katherine T. McCaffrey
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: August 2002

Protestantism and Political Conflict in the Ninete Protestantism and Political Conflict in the Ninete
Author: Luis Martnez-Fernndez
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: December 2001


Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in
Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in
Full Title: Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas
Author: Edited by Anna L. Peterson, Manuel A. Vsquez, and Philip J. Williams
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: June 2001

Dreaming Equality Dreaming Equality
Subtitle: Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil
Author: Robin E. Sheriff
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: December 2001


What it Means to be a Man
What it Means to be a Man
Subtitle: Reflections on Puerto Rican Masculinity
Author: Rafael L. Ramirez
Translated by: Rosa E. Casper
Foreword:Peter Guarnaccia
Edition: Cloth/Paperback
Pages: 144 pp

The Alphabet in My Hands
The Alphabet in My Hands
Subtitle: A Writing Life
Author: Marjorie Agosn
Edition: Cloth
Pages: 220 pp., 8 b&w illus.




Imaginary Networks of Power
Author: Roger Bartra
Edition: Paper


Women and Politics in Latin America
Women and Politics in Latin America
Author: Nikki Craske
Edition: Cloth/Paperback
Pages: 272 pp.



In Praise of Difference
In Praise of Difference
Subtitle: The Emergence of a Global Feminism
Author: Rosiska Darcy De Oliveira
Edition: Cloth
Pages: 160 pp.




To Be A Slave in Brazil
Subtitle: 1550-1888
Author: Katia M. de Queiros Mattoso
Edition: Paper




Power and Everyday Life
Subtitle: The Lives of Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Author: Maria Odila Silva Dias
Edition: Paper/Cloth


Water And Power In Highland Peru
Water And Power In Highland Peru
Subtitle: The Cultural Politics of Irrigation and Development
Author: Paul H. Gelles
Edition: Cloth/Paper
Pages: 256pp., 29 b&w illus.


Fighting to Learn
Fighting to Learn
Subtitle: Popular Education and Guerrilla War in El Salvador
Author: John L. Hammond
Edition:Cloth/Paperback
Pages: 224 pp., 1 map




Honor and the American Dream
Subtitle: Culture and Identity in a Chicano Community
Author: Ruth Horowitz
Edition: Paper/Cloth




The Aztec Image in Western Thought
Author: Benjamin Keen
Edition: Paper

Cuban Miami Cuban Miami
Author: Robert M. Levine and Moises Asis
Edition: Cloth
Pages: 176 pp., 180 b&w illus.
The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Editors: Robert M. Levine and Jose Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy
Edition: Cloth/Paper
Pages: 224 pp., 1 map, 13 b&w photographs


Women of Belize
Women of Belize
Subtitle: Gender and Change in Central America
Author: Irma McClaurin
Edition: Paper/Cloth





From Dessalines to Duvalier
Subtitle: Race, Colour and National Independence in Haiti
Author: David Nicholls
Edition: Paper/Cloth




Brazilian Women Speak
Subtitle: Contemporary Life Stories
Author: Daphne Patai
Edition: Paper

Sandino’s Daughters
Sandino’s Daughters
Subtitle: Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle
Author: Margaret Randall
Edition: Paper



Sandino's Daughters Revisited
Sandino's Daughters Revisited
Subtitle: Feminism in Nicaragua
Author: Margaret Randall
Edition: Paper/Cloth





The United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934
Author: Hans Schmidt
Edition: Paper

Racism in a Racial Democracy Racism in a Racial Democracy
Subtitle: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil
Author: France Winddance Twine
Edition: Cloth/Paperback
Pages: 192 pp., 20 b&w photos








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