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The White Indians of Mexican Cinema
(April 2022)
Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age
Mónica García Blizzard - Author
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Examines the filmic representation of whiteness as indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico.
The White Indians of Mexican Cinema theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade—the representation of whiteness as indigeneity—during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to the 1950s. Adopting a broad decolonial perspective whil...(Read More) |
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Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America
(March 2022)
Estelle Tarica - Author
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Examines how community leaders, writers, and political activists facing state repression in Latin America have drawn on and debated the validity of Holocaust terms to describe human rights atrocities in their own countries.
This book proposes the existence of a recognizably distinct Holocaust consciousness in Latin America since the 1970s. Community leaders, intellectuals, writers...(Read More) |
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The Cultural Power of Personal Objects
(December 2021)
Traditional Accounts and New Perspectives
Jared Kemling - Editor
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Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.
The Cultural Power of Personal Objects seeks to understand the value and efficacy of objects, places, and times that take on cultural power and reverence to such a degree that they are treated (whether metaphorically or actually) as “persons,” or as objects wi...(Read More) |
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Thinking Ecologically, Thinking Responsibly
(December 2021)
The Legacies of Lorraine Code
Nancy Arden McHugh - Editor
Andrea Doucet - Editor
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Engages and extends the feminist philosopher Lorraine Code’s groundbreaking work on epistemology and ethics.
Thinking Ecologically, Thinking Responsibly brings together a transdisciplinary cohort of feminist, critical race, Indigenous, and decolonial scholars who build upon and seek to widen and deepen the legacy and potential of feminist philosopher Lorraine Code's work. Si...(Read More) |
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Christianity and Politics in Tribal India
(November 2021)
Baptist Missionaries and Naga Nationalism
G. Kanato Chophy - Author
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Chronicles the astonishing and counterintuitive spread of Christianity among a group of previously isolated tribes in a remote and hilly part of Northeastern India.
Through an ethnohistorical study of the Nagas—a congeries of tribes inhabiting the Indo-Myanmar frontier—this book explores an unusually interesting region of India that is all too often seen as peripheral. G. Kanato Ch...(Read More) |
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This Bridge Called My Back, Fortieth Anniversary Edition
(November 2021)
Writings by Radical Women of Color
Cherríe Moraga - Editor
Gloria Anzaldúa - Editor
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Fortieth anniversary edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism.
Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherríe Moraga...(Read More) |
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Mayalogue
(October 2021)
An Interactionist Theory of Indigenous Cultures
Victor Montejo - Author
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Offers a strong critique of traditional anthropological studies from an Indigenous and postcolonial perspective.
In Mayalogue, Native Mayan scholar Victor Montejo provides an alternative reading and interpretation of cultures, challenging Western ethnocentric approaches that have marginalized Native knowledge and worldviews in the past. He proposes instead a methodology for ...(Read More) |
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Meander
(August 2021)
Making Room for Rivers
Margaret Wooster - Author
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Draws on the author's own experiences as a watershed planner, teacher, and activist to tell the story of the Great Lakes region's experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water.
Meander tells the story of the Great Lakes region's experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water. Drawing on her own experience as a watershed planner,...(Read More) |
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Nos/Otras
(August 2021)
Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance
Andrea J. Pitts - Author
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Offers a timely reconsideration of the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, treating issues of multiplicitous agency, identarian politics, and the stakes of coalition building as core themes in the author’s work.
In a refreshingly novel approach to the writings of Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942–2004), Andrea J. Pitts addresses issues relevant to contemporary debates within feminist theory and cr...(Read More) |
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Sensitive Negotiations
(August 2021)
Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry
Nikki Hessell - Author
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Examines how Indigenous figures used British Romantic poetry in their interactions with settler governments and publics.
Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indigenous peoples in North America and the Pacific engaged with the latest and most fashionable British Romantic poetry as part of transcontinental and transoceanic cross-cultural negotiations about sovere...(Read More) |
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