Race, colonialism, and social transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean
By: edited by Jerome Branche.
Contributors: Branche, Jerome.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780813032641
Subjects: National characteristics, Latin American; National characteristics, Caribbean; Social change -- Latin America; Social change -- Caribbean Area; Latin America -- Race relations; Caribbean Area -- Race relations
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Coloring the social structure : racial politics during the  Duvalierist dictatorial regime of 1957-87 / Carolle Charles; title: 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; title: Racism and its masks in Brazil : on racism and the idea of harmony / Gislene Aparecida dos Santos; title: Revolutionary spiritualities in Chiapas today : immanent history and the comparative frame in subaltern studies / José Rabasa; title: New cartographies of the Bolivian state in the context of the Constituent Assembly, 2006-2007 / Denise Y. Arnold; title: Savage emergence : toward a decolonial Aymara methodology for cultural survival / Marcia Stephenson; title: Race, ethnicity, and nation in Manuel Zapata Olivella's ¡Levántate mulato! : rethinking identity in Latin America / Laurence Prescott; title: Afro-centrism as an intercultural force in Ecuador / Michael Handelsman; title: Creole counterdiscourses and French departmental hegemony : Reclaiming "here" from "there" / H. Adlai Murdoch.