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Informationen zum Autor Matthew C. Gutmann is the Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of the Social Sciences - International Affairs at Brown University, Providence, RI. Félix V. Matos Rodríguez is the Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (City University of New York). Lynn Stephen is Professor and chair of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, Eugene. Patricia Zavella is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and Co-Director of the Chicano/Latino Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Klappentext In recent years, with the transformation of political economies and the influence of new theoretical frameworks, especially in cultural studies, older approaches to area studies have become increasingly inadequate. This landmark volume charts new territory by demonstrating the limits of neatly demarcating the regions of 'Latin America' and the 'United States'. Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation presents key readings that collectively examine the historical, cultural, economic, and political integration of Latina/os across the Americas. It is the editors' hope that this thoughtful and innovative collection will challenge the barriers between Latina/o Studies and Latin American/Caribbean Studies as approached by anthropologists, historians, and other scholars. Perspectives on Las Américas provides a core text in a variety of settings and will offer instructors, students, and interested readers both the theoretical tools and case studies necessary to rethink transnational realities and identities. Zusammenfassung Presents contemporary theorizing and empirical research that demonstrates the limits neatly demarcating! for example! the regions of "Latin America" and the "United States". Collectively! the readings examine the historical! cultural! economic and political integration of the Americas. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors. Editors' Acknowledgements. Acknowledgment to Sources. Introduction: Understanding the Américas: Insights from Latina/o and Latin American Studies (Lynn Stephen, Patricia Zavella, Matthew C. Gutmann, and Félix V. Matos Rodríguez). Part I: Colonialism and Resistance. 1. Traddutora, Traditora: A Paradigmatic Figure of Chicana Feminism (Norma Alarcón). 2. From the Plantation to the Plantation (excerpt) (Antonio Benítez Rojo. 3. New Approaches to the Study of Peasant Rebellion and Consciousness: Implications of the Andean Experience (Steve J. Stern). 4. The Real 'New World Order': The Globalization of Racial and Ethnic Relations in the Late Twentieth Century (Néstor P. Rodríguez). 5. The Americans: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples in the United States (Rubén G. Rumbaut). Part II: Global Political Economy. 6. '¿Quién trabajará?': Domestic Workers, Urban Slaves, and the Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico (Félix V. Matos Rodríguez). 7. A Central American Genocide: Rubber, Slavery, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Guatusos-Malekus (Marc Edelman). 8. Transnational Labor Process and Gender Relations: Women in Fruit and Vegetable Production in Chile, Brazil and Mexico (Jane I. Collins). 9. Inequality near and far: International Adoption as Seen from a Brazilian Favela (Claudia Fonseca). Part III: Identities, Practices, Hybridities. 10. History, Culture, and Place-Making: 'Native' status and Maya Identity in Belize (Laurie Kroshus Medina). 11. The Carnivalization of the World (Richard Parker). 12. 'Playing with Fire': The Gendered Construction of Chicana/Mexicana Sexuality (Patricia Zavella). 13. Returned Migration, Language, and Identity: Puerto Rican Bilinguals in Dos Worlds/Two Mundos (Ana...
