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  • Crafting Gender

    Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Sally Price, Norma Valle, Mari Lyn Salvador, Dorothea Scott Whitten ...
    This volume initiates a gender-based framework for analyzing the folk art of Latin America and the Caribbean. Defined here broadly as the "art of the people" and as having a primarily decorative, rather than utilitarian, purpose, folk art is not solely the province of women, but folk art by women in Latin America has received little sustained attention. Crafting Gender begins to redress this gap ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Chicana Portraits

    Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers

    by Raquel Valle-Sentíes ...
    This innovative collection pairs portraits with critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an engaging look at their work, contributions to the field, and major achievements.Artist Raquel Valle-Sentíes’s portraits bring visual dimension, while essays delve deeply into the authors’ lives for details that inform their literary, artistic, feminist, and political trajectories and ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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  • The Meanings of Macho

    Being a Man in Mexico City

    by Matthew C. Gutmann ...
    Series Book 3 - Men and Masculinity
    In this compelling study of machismo in Mexico City, Matthew Gutmann overturns many stereotypes of male culture in Mexico and offers a sensitive and often surprising look at how Mexican men see themselves, parent their children, relate to women, and talk about sex. This tenth anniversary edition features a new preface that updates the stories of the book's key protagonists. ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • iVenceremos?

    The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba

    by Jafari Sinclaire Allen ...
    Series series Perverse modernities
    Promoting the revolutionary socialist project of equality and dignity for all, the slogan ¡Venceremos! (We shall overcome!) appears throughout Cuba, everywhere from newspapers to school murals to nightclubs. Yet the accomplishments of the Cuban state are belied by the marginalization of blacks, the prejudice against sexual minorities, and gender inequities. ¡Venceremos? is a groundbreaking ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Flamenco

    Conflicting Histories of the Dance

    by Michelle Heffner Hayes ...
    This analytical history traces representations of flamenco dance in Spain and abroad from the twentieth century to the present, using histories, film, accounts of live performances, and practitioner interviews.Beginning with an analysis of flamenco historiography, the text examines images of the female dancer in films by Luis Bunuel, Carlos Saura, and Antonio Gades; stereotypes of flamenco bodies ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race

    The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America

    by Marilyn Grace Miller ...
    Latin America is characterized by a uniquely rich history of cultural and racial mixtures known collectively as mestizaje. These mixtures reflect the influences of indigenous peoples from Latin America, Europeans, and Africans, and spawn a fascinating and often volatile blend of cultural practices and products. Yet no scholarly study to date has provided an articulate context for fully ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • In Search of Legitimacy

    How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition

    by Lauren Miller Griffith ...
    Series Book 7 - Dance and Performance Studies
    Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why “first world” men and women leave behind their jobs, families, and friends to pursue a strenuous training regimen in a historically disparaged and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization

    Edited by Charles A. Perrone, Christopher Dunn ...
    This collection of articles by leading scholars traces the history of Brazilian pop music through the twentieth-century. ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • The Chicano Studies Reader

    An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970–2019

    Edited by Chon A. Noriega, Eric Avila, Karen Mary Davalos, Chela Sandoval, Rafael Pérez-Torres, Charlene Villaseñor Black ...
    The Chicano Studies Reader, the best-selling anthology of articles from Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, has been newly expanded with a group of essays that focus on Chicana/o and Latina/o youth. This section, Generations against Exclusion, joins Decolonizing the Territory, Performing Politics, (Re)Configuring Identities, Remapping the World, and Continuing to Push Boundaries. Introductions ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • [Un]framing the "Bad Woman"

    Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and Other Rebels with a Cause

    by Alicia Gaspar de Alba ...
    “What the women I write about have in common is that they are all rebels with a cause, and I see myself represented in their mirror,” asserts Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Looking back across a career in which she has written novels, poems, and scholarly works about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, la Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, the murdered women of Juárez, the Salem witches, and Chicana lesbian feminists, Gaspar ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Jorge Amado

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by Earl Fitz, Keith Brower, Enrique Martinez-Vidal ...
    Jorge Amado is simultaneously one of Brazil's most prolific and widely read novelists and one of its most controversial. Seeking to offer for his English-speaking audience the same range of critical thinking that surrounds his work in Brazil, this volume provides an introduction and chronology to Amado's life, followed by a comprehensive survey of his major works by some of the world's leading ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands

    Edited by Arturo J. Aldama, Chela Sandoval, Peter J. García ...
    In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashoning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the US. Examining the areas of crossover ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD