Perspectives on Las Américas [[electronic resource] ] : A Reader in Culture, History, & Representation

• Autore: Gutmann Mathew C
• Pubblicazione: Chichester, : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (478 p.)
• Disciplina: 980
• Soggetto topico: Ethnicity; Hispanic Americans; Identity (Psychology); Latin Americans; Political culture; Popular culture; Sex role; History; Hispanic Americans - United States; Regions & Countries - Americas; History & Archaeology; Latin America
• Soggetto geografico: Latin America History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: RodríguezFélix V StephenLynn
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Perspectives on Las Americas: A Reader in Culture, History & Representation; Contents; List of Contributors; Editors' Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments to Sources; Introduction: Understanding the Américas: Insights from Latina/o and Latin American Studies; PART I Colonialism and Resistance; 1 Traddutora, Traditora: A Paradigmatic Figure of Chicana Feminism; 2 From the Plantation to the Plantation (Excerpt); 3 New Approaches to the Study of Peasant Rebellion and Consciousness: Implications of the Andean Experience ; 4 The Real "New World Order": The Globalization of Racial and Ethnic Relations in the Late Twentieth Century5 The Americans: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples in the United States; PART II Global Political Economy; 6 "¿Quién Trabajará?': Domestic Workers, Urban Slaves, and the Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico; 7 A Central American Genocide: Rubber, Slavery, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Guatusos-Malekus; 8 Transnational Labor Process and Gender Relations: Women in Fruit an
• Sommario/riassunto: Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation charts new territory by demonstrating the limits of neatly demarcating the regions of 'Latin America' and the 'United States'. This landmark volume presents key readings that collectively examine the historical, cultural, economic, and political integration of Latina/os across the Americas, thereby challenging the barriers between Latina/o Studies and Latin American/Caribbean Studies.:.; Brings together key readings that collectively examine the historical, cultural, economic, and political integration of Latina/os
• Titolo autorizzato: Perspectives on Las Américas
• ISBN: 1-281-32257-1; 9786611322571; 0-470-75353-6; 0-470-75206-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910145566103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Global Perspectives