Books in the Latin America Otherwise series

In 1995, a group of Latina feminists began meeting to share life experiences. The group included oral historians, activists, literary scholars, poets, ethnographers, and psychologists. By presenting their diverse stories and reflections, this title provides a perspective on feminist theorising, one grounded in being Latina American.

Analyzes spatial history of 19th and early 20th century Mexico, particularly political uses of mapping and surveying, to demonstrate multiple ways that space can be negotiated in the service of local or national agendas.

Compares the self-representations of the US Mexicanas with the representations of academic-affiliated, intellectual Chicana writers and visual artists. This work looks at how the Chicana professional intellectuals and the US Mexicana women refigure demeaning constructions of female gender roles and racial, ethnic, and sexual identities.

Walter D. Mignolo analyzes the "colonial logic" that has driven five hundred years of Western imperialism, from colonialism through neoliberalism

In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, like their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. This title traces the history of the notion of race from this turn-of-the-century definition to a denial of the definition's scientific validity.

Argues that European modernity has become inextricably linked with the experience of the warrior and conqueror. This title develops a powerful critique of modernity, and offers a critical response combining ethics, political theory, and ideas rooted in Christian and Jewish thought.

An influential work originally published in Mexico in 1970; the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch seeks to identify and recover indigenous and popular ways of thinking devalued since colonization.

Analyzes the relationship between conceptions of racial and ethnic identity and the ways social stratification and inequality are reproduced and experienced in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

Demonstrates the centrality of Gloria Anzalduas concept of spiritual mestizaje to the queer feminist Chicana theorists life and thought, and its utility as a framework for interpreting contemporary Chicana narratives.

Available in English for the first time, a masterwork by Enrique Dussel, one of the world's foremost philosophers, and a cornerstone of the philosophy of liberation, which he helped to found and develop.

An anthropological and historical analysis of the multiple meanings of the term el pueblo, among working-class indigenous and mestizo populations in Mexicos Yucatan peninsula.

Explores "child circulation," informal arrangements in which indigenous Andean children are sent by their parents to live in other households. This title demonstrates that such an understanding of the practice is simplistic and misleading.

As both an idea and an institution, the family has been at the heart of Chicano/a cultural politics since the Mexican American civil rights movement emerged in the late 1960s. This book explores the competing notions of la familia found in movement-inspired literature, film, video, music, painting, and other forms of cultural expression.

Aiming to provide a radical critique of elite culture and of liberal, bourgeois, and modern epistemologies and projects, the essays included here prove that Latin American Subaltern Studies is much more than the mere translation of subaltern studies from South Asia to Latin America.

Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, this title features essays that give insights of postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts, ranging from the narratives of 18th century travelers and clerics in the region to the status of indigenous intellectuals in Colombia.

The Inkan empire did not have writing as it is usually understood. The Inkas kept track of information - including their social and political organization - on khipus, knotted cords of cotton or wool. This book offers a reading of the khipus of one Andean village, where villagers have conserved a set of these enigmatic cords to the present day.

Explores the profound cultural transformations triggered by Spain's efforts to colonize the Andean region, and demonstrates the continuing influence of the Inquisition to the present day.

Collection of essays explores the processes by which political power was constructed in four Andean republics--Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia--during the two formative centuries of nation-state formation.

Unspeakable Violence argues that racialized and gendered violence in the U.S.Mexico borderlands from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth was fundamental to U.S., Mexican, and Chicano/a nationalisms.

Argues for the saliency of the category of the subaltern over that of class. Aiming to provide a radical critique of elite culture and of liberal, bourgeois, and modern epistemologies and projects, these essays prove that this book is much more than the mere translation of subaltern studies from South Asia to Latin America.

Presents a collection of essays that engage postcolonial debates from the perspective of the Americas. This title includes essays that revise the insights of postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts, ranging from the narratives of 18th-century travelers and clerics in the region to the status of indigenous intellectuals in Colombia.

Collection of essays explores the processes by which political power was constructed in four Andean republics--Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia--during the two formative centuries of nation-state formation.

Explores Mexico and its romance with the image as well as othe issues of Spanish colonialism.

An ethnographic study of cultural policy in Jamaica as seen from above and below in relation to race, class, and nation

Sigal argues that sixteenth century Nahua sexuality cannot be fully understood only through colonial sensibilities and sources. He examines legal documents, clerical texts, pictorial manuscripts, images and glyphs of Nahua gods and goddesses and descriptions of fertility rituals and other historical accounts and stories to show the complexity of Nahua sexuality.

The first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochets legacy of human rights atrocities.

Between 1946 and 1958 there was a surge of violence in Colombia that left 200,000 dead in one of the worst conflicts our hemisphere has ever experienced. This little-studied period of terror, is known as La Violencia. This title deals with La Violencia.

Analyses the social and economic relationships governing the production of cotton in the Pisco Valley, an area of Peru's south coast. This book examines the interdependence of the planters, managers, and peasants. It offers a view of the monumental struggle between planters and peasants that was fundamental in shaping the agrarian history of Peru.

The story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

Mexican American author Josie Mendez-Negrete's memoir of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father.