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"Required reading for those interested in Latin American identity. Authors recognize difficulty of the pregnancy of the moment - globalization and diaspora - in
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Hispanic or Latino? Mexican American or Chicano? Social labels often take on a life of their own beyond the control of those who coin them or to whom they are a
Identity and Modernity in Latin America
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In this important new book Jorge Larrain examines the trajectories of modernity and identity in Latin America and their reciprocal relationships. Drawing on a l
Imperial Subjects
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In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with fixed categories of race and ethnicity. As Imperial Subjects demonstrates, from the ear
Mestizo Nations
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Nationality in Latin America has long been entwined with questions of racial identity. Just as American-born colonial elites grounded their struggle for indepen