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  • Mestizo Nations: Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature

    In Mestizo Nations, Juan De Castro explores the construction of nationality in Latin American and Chicano literature and thought during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the discourse of mestizaje—which proposes the creation of a homogenous culture out of American Indian, black, and Iberian elements—he examines a selection of texts that represent the entire…

  • Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991

    Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991 Duke University Press 2000 424 pages 21 b&w photographs, 2 maps, 1 table Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2385-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2420-1 Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected…

  • Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba

    Scholars have long heralded mestizaje, or race mixing, as the essence of the Cuban nation. “Revolutionizing Romance” is an account of the continuing significance of race in Cuba as it is experienced in interracial relationships. This ethnography tracks young couples as they move in a world fraught with shifting connections of class, race, and culture…

  • Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations

    Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations Brill Publishing 2008 412 pages Hardback ISBN-13: 978 90 04 17039 1; ISBN-10: 90 04 17039 1 Edited by Keri E. Iyall Smith, Assistant Professor of Sociology Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts Patricia Leavy, Associate Professor of Sociology Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts Combining theoretical and empirical pieces, this book explores…

  • We Are a People: Narrative and Multiplicity in Constructing Ethnic Identity

    We Are a People: Narrative and Multiplicity in Constructing Ethnic Identity Temple University Press January 2000 304 pages 7×10 5 tables 5 figures Paper EAN: 978-1-56639-723-0; ISBN: 1-56639-723-5 edited by Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara and W. Jeffrey Burroughs, Dean of Math and Sciences and Professor of Psychology Brigham Young…

  • What Are You? Voices of Mixed-Race Young People

    What Are You? Voices of Mixed-Race Young People Henry Holt and Company and imprint of MacMillan June 1999 288 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8050-5968-7, ISBN10: 0-8050-5968-7 Pearl Fuyo Gaskins Awards: American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults; IRA Notable Books for a Global Society; Books for the Teen Age,…

  • The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In

    When you come from a mixed race background as Paisley Rekdal does — her mother is Chinese American and her father is Norwegian– thorny issues of identity politics, and interracial desire are never far from the surface.

  • Manuel Zapata Olivella and the “Darkening” of Latin American Literature

    Manuel Zapata Olivella and the “Darkening” of Latin American Literature University of Missouri Press 2005 168 pages 6 x 9 index, bibliography ISBN 978-0-8262-1578-9 Antonio D. Tillis, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Dartmouth University Manuel Zapata Olivella and the “Darkening” of Latin American Literature is an examination of the fictional work of…

  • Damn Near White: An African American Family’s Rise from Slavery to Bittersweet Success

    Damn Near White: An African American Family’s Rise from Slavery to Bittersweet Success University of Missouri Press October 2010 192 pages 15 illustrations, bibliography index ISBN-10: 0826218997 ISBN-13: 978-0826218995 Carolyn Marie Wilkins, Professor Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts Carolyn Wilkins grew up defending her racial identity. Because of her light complexion and wavy hair,…

  • Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance

    Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance University of Michigan Press 2006 256 pages 6 x 9. 29 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-472-09955-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-472-06955-2 Alicia Arrizón, Professor of Women’s Studies University of California, Riverside Winner of the Outstanding Book Award for 2008 from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Co-winner of the 2007 Modern…