Category: Books

  • Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America Duke University Press 2009 320 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4401-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4420-9 Edited by: Matthew D. O’Hara, Assistant Professor of History University of California, Santa Cruz Andrew Fisher, Associate Professor of History Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with…

  • Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal Acknowledgment Process University of Nebraska Press 2004 355 pages paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8321-3 hardback ISBN: 978-0-8032-3226-6 Mark Edwin Miller, Associate Professor of History Southern Utah University The Federal Acknowledgment Process (FAP) is one of the most important and contentious issues facing Native Americans today. A complicated system of criteria…

  • Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, “Indians and Mestizos in the “Lettered City”” highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the “lettered city” as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites.

  • Recasting Race after World War II: Germans and African Americans in American-Occupied Germany University Press of Colorado 2007 320 9 b&w photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-87081-869-1 Timothy L. Schroer, Associate Professor of History University of West Georgia Historian Timothy L. Schroer’s Recasting Race after World War II explores the renegotiation of race by Germans and African…

  • Twelve years after it was first published, The Future is Mestizo is now updated and revised with a new foreword, introduction, and epilogue. This book speaks to the largest demographic change in twentieth-century United States history-the Latinization of music, religion, and culture.

  • The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism University of Minnesota Press 2008 272 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5005-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5004-0 Estelle Tarica, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture University of California, Berkeley The only recent English-language work on Spanish-American indigenismo from a literary perspective, Estelle Tarica’s work shows how modern Mexican…

  • Racial Identities, Genetic Ancestry, and Health in South America: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay Palgrave Macmillan October 2011 272 pages Includes: 10 pages of figures, 10 pages of tables 5.500 x 8.250 inches ISBN: 978-0-230-11061-8, ISBN10: 0-230-11061-4 Edited by Sahra Gibbon, Wellcome Trust Fellow Department of Social Anthropology University College London Ricardo Ventura Santos, Professor…

  • The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal Duke University Press November 2011 160 pages 20 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5210-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5199-3 Orin Starn, Professor of Cultural Anthropology Duke University Perhaps the best golfer ever, Tiger Woods rocketed to the top of a once whites-only sport. Endorsements made…

  • “Transnational Crossroads” explores and triangulates for the first time the interactions and contacts among these three cultural groups that were brought together by the expanding American empire from 1867 to 1950.

  • Ethnicities: Plays from the New West NeWest Press Spring 1999 208 pages paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-896300-03-0 Edited by: Anne Nothof, Professor Emeritus of English Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada Edited by Anne Nothof, the three plays included this anthology all deal with intercultural issues in Canada with humour, wit and at times, heartbreak. They range from…