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I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives by Colin Grant 9781529918366
RRP: $21.43$15.15A memoir told through a series of intimate portraits, which build into a poignant, insightful and unforgettable testimony of West Indian British experience.***A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***'Grant is a natural storyteller... Compelling and... -
Call the Mothers: Searching for Mexico's Disappeared in the War on Drugs Shaylih Muehlmann 9780520314580
RRP: $48.75$38.20A gripping portrait of the relentless women taking missing persons, kidnapping, and extortion cases into their own hands—and building a movement for one another. In this riveting exploration of the lives of mothers whose children are among the 100,000... -
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel Everett
RRP: $25.33$17.73Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahas, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its... -
Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights by Lara Montesinos Coleman 9781478025566
RRP: $42.88$37.42In Struggles for the Human, Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, political philosophy, and critical theory to reorient debates on human rights through attention to understandings of legality, ethics, and humanity in anticapitalist and decolonial... -
The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America by Andrea Giunta 9780520344327
RRP: $76.05$59.98How a constellation of Latin American artists explored the body, power, and emancipation-and expanded the meanings of feminist art. In The Political Body, art historian Andrea Giunta explores gender and power in the work of Latin American artists from... -
The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos by Angela Garcia 9780374605780
RRP: $50.68$33.11The Way That Leads Among the Lost reveals a hidden place where care and violence are impossible to separate: the anexos of Mexico City. The prizewinning anthropologist Angela Garcia takes us deep into the world of these small rooms, informal treatment... -
Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Ecuador by Janis B. Nuckolls 9781793616210
RRP: $68.25$60.35In Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Janis B. Nuckolls and Tod D. Swanson discuss two varieties of Quichua, an indigenous Ecuadorian language. Drawing on their linguistic and... -
Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives by Cécile Accilien 9781683403999
RRP: $54.50$37.71Approaching Haiti's history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspectiveThis volume is the first to focus on teaching about Haiti's complex history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Making broad connections between Haiti and the rest... -
The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History by Diego Javier Luis 9780674271784
RRP: $74.00$59.49The definitive account of transpacific Asian movement through the Spanish empire-from Manila to Acapulco and beyond-and its implications for the history of race and colonization in the Americas.Between 1565 and 1815, the so-called Manila galleons enjoyed... -
The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families by Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman
RRP: $46.78$40.64Winner, Section on the Sociology of Emotions Outstanding Recent Contribution (Book) Award, American Sociological Association, 2016 Charles Horton Cooley Award for Recent Book, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2017 Best Publication Award,... -
Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century by Faith Smith
RRP: $40.93$35.82In Strolling in the Ruins Faith Smith engages with a period in the history of the Anglophone Caribbean often overlooked as nondescript, quiet, and embarrassingly pro-imperial within the larger narrative of Jamaican and Trinidadian nationalism. Between... -
The Indigenous Peoples of Trinidad and Tobago from the first settlers until today by Arie Boomert 9789088903533
$98.42This study relates the vicissitudes of the Amerindian peoples who lived or still inhabit the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, from the earliest occupants, ca. 8000 BC, until at present. Using archaeological, ethnohistorical and linguistic data, it... -
Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle, and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture by Caroline Dodds Pennock 9780230285644
RRP: $87.73$76.99The history of the Aztecs has been haunted by the spectre of human sacrifice. Reinvesting the Aztecs with a humanity frequently denied to them, and exploring their spectacular religious violence as a comprehensible element of life, this book integrates a... -
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard: Folklore and Culture in Jamaica by Violet Harrington Bryan 9781496836212
RRP: $68.15$64.16Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard, two sister-writers born and raised in Jamaica, re-create imagined and lived homelands in their literature by commemorating the history, culture, and religion of the Caribbean. Velma Pollard was born in St. Catherine,... -
The Missionaries Norman Lewis 9781906011529
RRP: $25.33$16.77In "The Missionaries", Norman Lewis brings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentalist Christian missionaries on aboriginal life throughout the world.Book... -
The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro: Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town by Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert 9781469671109
RRP: $68.15$63.86This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in Mexico. Chronicling Cerro de San Pedro's operations from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present, Daviken... -
Caribes 2.0: New Media, Globalization, and the Afterlives of Disaster by Jossianna Arroyo
RRP: $50.68$43.86In Caribes 2.0, author Jossianna Arroyo looks at the Caribbean mediasphere in the twenty-first century. Arroyo argues that we have seen a return to tropes such as blackface, brownface, cultural and ethnic stereotypes, and violent representations of the... -
Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela by Moises Lino e Silva
RRP: $42.90$41.38A mesmerizing ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own politics of freedom against the backdrop of multiple forms of oppression. Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to... -
Beyond Constraint: Middle/Passages of Blackness and Indigeneity in the Radical Tradition Shona N. Jackson 9781478019183
$60.98In Beyond Constraint, Shona N. Jackson offers a new approach to labour and its analysis by demonstrating the fundamental relation between black and Indigenous People’s sovereign, free, and coerced labour in the Americas. Through the writings of Cedric... -
Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum Carol Cleaveland 9781479824328
$175.27How the US asylum process fails to protect against claims of gender-based violence Through eyewitness accounts of closed-court proceedings and powerful testimony from women who have sought asylum in the United States because of severe assaults and death... -
Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum Carol Cleaveland 9781479824335
RRP: $46.78$42.06How the US asylum process fails to protect against claims of gender-based violence Through eyewitness accounts of closed-court proceedings and powerful testimony from women who have sought asylum in the United States because of severe assaults and death... -
Beyond Constraint: Middle/Passages of Blackness and Indigeneity in the Radical Tradition Shona N. Jackson 9781478016540
$225.71In Beyond Constraint, Shona N. Jackson offers a new approach to labour and its analysis by demonstrating the fundamental relation between black and Indigenous People’s sovereign, free, and coerced labour in the Americas. Through the writings of Cedric... -
Call the Mothers: Searching for Mexico’s Disappeared in the War on Drugs by Shaylih Muehlmann 9780520314573
RRP: $156.00$139.64A gripping portrait of the relentless women taking missing persons, kidnapping, and extortion cases into their own hands—and building a movement for one another. In this riveting exploration of the lives of mothers whose children are among the 100,000... -
Marginalized Groups in the Caribbean: Gender, Policy, and Society by Ann Marie Bissessar 9781793642851
RRP: $157.95$138.57Throughout the world, policy makers argue that they develop and implement policies to benefit all members of their society. Marginalized Groups in the Caribbean argues that the policies introduced by several governments in the Caribbean lead to the... -
Get Involved!: Stories of Bahamian Civil Society by Kim Williams-Pulfer 9781978834446
RRP: $54.58$47.07Philanthropy is commonly depicted as a universal practice and is either valued for supporting community transformation or critiqued for limiting social justice. However, dominant definitions and even popular connotations tend to privilege wealthy Western... -
Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to be a Puta Gabriela Leite 9781478026273
RRP: $161.85$141.39In the early 1970s, while living at home with her conservative, middle-class family and studying at the University of São Paulo, Gabriela Leite decided to become a sex worker. From her first client in a tiny room in downtown São Paulo to the launch of an... -
Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Contemporary Latin American Film by María Soledad Paz-MacKay 9781666934250
RRP: $157.95$138.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666934250Author María Soledad Paz-MacKayFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books -
Researching Crime and Violence in Medellín, Colombia: Truth Versus Truths by Caroline Doyle 9781666914146
RRP: $150.15$131.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666914146Author Caroline DoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books -
Independence, Colonial Relics, and Monuments in the Caribbean by Allison O Ramsay 9781666943979
RRP: $165.75$145.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666943979Author Allison O RamsayFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books -
Indigenous Collective Rights in Latin America: The Role of Coalitions, Constitutions, and Party Systems by Katherine Becerra Valdivia 9781666909128
RRP: $58.50$52.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666909128Author Katherine Becerra ValdiviaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books -
Comparative Assessment of Social Issues in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean by Brenda I. Gill 9781793642493
RRP: $187.20$164.54Using a comparative framework, this edited volume evaluates pressing social issues facing African, Latin American, and Caribbean countries. Unique in its comparative and multi-regional perspective, this book provides a scholastic and practical... -
Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution by Marlene L. Daut 9781469674742
$214.13The Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and slavery, and as its thinkers and fighters blazed the path to universal freedom, they forced anticolonial, antislavery, and antiracist ideals into modern political grammar. The first... -
Gang Strategies in the Northern Triangle: Coerced Criminality as a Form of Human Trafficking by T. Adam Golob 9781666909791
RRP: $150.15$131.86Gang Strategies in the Northern Triangle: Coerced Criminality as a Form of Human Trafficking argues for a more robust understanding of the issues, dynamics, and contextual factors of human trafficking. Relying on the definition as established by the... -
Chilean New Song and the Question of Culture in the Allende Government: Voices for a Revolution by Natália Ayo Schmiedecke 9781793622853
RRP: $142.35$125.15Polyphonic Revolution focuses on the cultural debate within the left during the Popular Unity government in Chile (1970-73).Seeking to map such a debate to situate the discourses and artistic productions linked to the Chilean New Song movement, this book... -
Breaking the Boundaries of the Colombian Socio-Racial Order: Black Middle Classes through an Intersectional Lens by Mara Viveros-Vigoya 9781666919189
RRP: $150.15$131.86In Breaking the Boundaries of the Colombian Socio-Racial Order: Black Middle Classes through an Intersectional Lens, anthropologist and Black feminist Mara Viveros-Vigoya examines what it means to be Black and middle class in Colombia and how that... -
New Perspectives on the Good Neighbor Policy by Alexandre Busko Valim 9781666942118
RRP: $187.20$164.54The Second World War was a watershed moment in US–South American relations. Yet the Good Neighbor Policy—the driving force behind many of the changes during this time—remains underanalyzed, especially from a South American perspective. Examining topics... -
Aging and Generations in Cuba: Unravelling the Care Crisis by Blandine Destremau-Zeitz 9781666904635
RRP: $157.95$138.57Based on a twelve-year ethnographic study in Havana and rural areas, this book examines the current crisis of eldercare in Cuba, underpinned by advanced demographic aging. With great humanity and a lively narrative, Destremau-Zeitz shows how... -
The Animal Other in Narratives of Conquest: Uncanny Encounters by Stacy Hoult 9781793648679
RRP: $134.55$116.98The Animal Other in Narratives of Conquest: Uncanny Encounters investigates the functions of nonhuman animal imagery in diverse narratives of the Conquest of the Americas. The author's explications of film, poetry, literary and popular fiction, and theme... -
Communes and the Venezuelan State: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis by Anderson Bean 9781793640840
RRP: $150.15$131.86Since 2006, Venezuela has witnessed an explosion of different forms of popular power and participatory democracy. Over 47,000 grassroots neighborhood-based communal councils and 3,000 communes have been constructed. In Communes and the Venezuelan State:... -
Indigenous Collective Rights in Latin America: The Role of Coalitions, Constitutions, and Party Systems by Katherine Becerra Valdivia 9781666909104
RRP: $157.95$138.57Latin America is a region with high levels of recognition for indigenous collective rights. Still, legal protections differ considerably among the countries. Why do some countries in Latin America have a strong recognition of collective rights for...