Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico
Julie Avril Minich
How disability provides a new perspective on our understanding of the nation and the citizen
240 pages
| 5.5 x 8.5
Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil
John Tofik Karam
A revealing investigation of changing identity in a globalizing world
232 pages
| 6 x 9
David F. García
The life and times of one of Cuba's most important musicians
224 pages
| 6 x 9
| 5 tables, 18 figures, 12 halftones
The Rastafari Reader
Edited by William David Spencer, Adrian Anthony McFarlane, and Nathanial Samuel Murrell
A comprehensive and indispensable study of the Rastafarian Movement
467 pages
| 7 x 10
| 1 table 1 figure
The Political Power of Music, 1960s-1973
J. Patrice McSherry
An examination of the Chilean New Song movement as an organic part of the struggles for progressive social change, deeper democracy, and social justice in Chile in the 1960s and early 1970s
254 pages
| 6 x 9
Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba
Lisa Yun
A remarkable examination of bondage in Cuba that probes questions of slavery, freedom, and race
336 pages
| 6 x 9
| 6 tables, 3 figures, 1 halftone
New Pride, Old Prejudice
Alan Klein
From the author of Sugarball, a look at the important and contested relationship between Major League Baseball and Dominican player development
200 pages
| 6 x 9
Tân-Singing, Chutney, and the Making of Indo-Caribbean Culture
Peter Manuel
An introduction to the music of Indo-Caribbean culture
288 pages
| 7 x 10
| 1 map 34 figures 18 halftones
The Argentine Puzzle in Context
Claudia Kedar
Chronicling the sometimes questionable relationship between the International Monetary Fund and Latin America from 1944 to the present
264 pages
| 6 x 9
| 2 tables
Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature
Anne-Marie Lee-Loy
West Indian literary representations of local Chinese populations illuminate concepts of national belonging
198 pages
| 5.5 x 8.5
Music, Culture, and Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Alejandro L. Madrid
How the relationships between avant-garde music and ideas of modernity in post-revolutionary Mexico shaped discourses of nationality
224 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 3 tables, 36 figures
Identity, Mestizaje, and Migration in Ecuador
Ketty Wong
How class divisions shape the definition of Ecuador's national music and identity.
272 pages
| 6 x 9
| 18 figures, 19 halftones, 1 map