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... Chapter 3 begins by asking a deceptively simple question: why was the Caste War called the Caste War? By tracing the historical reach and geographic range of the concept-metaphor casta , it shows how the name of the war indexes Creole efforts to repurpose the historical legacy of colonialism...

... Justo Sierra O’Reilly Maya Caste War Yucatán race ...

... Caste War Yucatán letters Karl Hermann Berendt Maya ...

...Yucatán<subtitle>Una Guerra Escrita, Prelude</subtitle> Chapter 3 begins by asking a deceptively simple question: why was the Caste War called the Caste War? By tracing the historical reach and geographic range of the concept-metaphor casta , it shows how the name of the war indexes Creole...

... this period and region actively responded to the colonial tactic of reducción in the context of the Caste War. It then turns to letters from Maya leaders and combatants during the first decades of the war, which themselves respond to that tactic. Writing in Spanish and Yucatec Maya, the letters...

... The Coda reviews how nineteenth-century black settlers in Liberia and Maya rebels in Yucatán left documents that do not only tell us who-did-what-where-when-and-why about the colonization of Liberia and the Caste War but also reflect speculatively on the meaning of freedom during...

... This introduction theorizes the conjuncture that nineteenth-century black settler colonization in Liberia and the Caste War of Yucatán share, and argues for considering them appositionally rather than comparatively. Such a consideration tracks three transversals that connect these seemingly...

... in the late 1980s and 1990s; and in the public redemption of Warisata as a multivalent symbol of Indigenous education, cultural identity, and self-determination in Bolivia's long internal war against racial oppression. Aymara ethnic politics student movements educational policy Warisata ...

... the Quechua language and his vision of the need for anticolonial orthography. haciendas Ccaccamarca communism Cold War Quechua ...

... intolerance, rural disintegration, war, and environmental disaster. This specter of fugitive complexity, threat, and liminal sublimity haunts late capitalist globalization across the Pacific Ocean and other world oceans; the migrant troubles borders of nation-state, race, religion, and region. Situated...

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...War and Conquest Chapter 1, “March 21, 1645,” narrates the history of Palmares during the seventeenth century by way of a unique entry point: the murder of an unnamed Palmarista woman by a Dutch bugler. Using this unconventional starting point, the chapter provides a basic history of Palmares...

...One This chapter examines the silence of the Bangladeshi state and civil society on 1947/partition and juxtaposes it with the extensive memorialization and inherent contestations in the national celebrations of 1971/Muktijuddho (the Bangladesh Liberation War). It outlines the historical...

... masculinity. Debates on masculinity help us explore the concrete constraints that reveal and define the blueprint of “patriarchal bargaining” in any given society, which may exhibit variations according to class, caste, and ethnicity, here undertaken by the birangonas and their families. While the women...

.... In the speculation opened by this conviction, I discern symptomatic resistances to thinking both personal and collective responsibility for the history of violence in Cyprus. Following a devastating civil war, in 2002 Sierra Leone became a laboratory for justice. For the first time, a truth and reconciliation...

... rumor, and his reading of learned chroniclers. The city that emerges from his picaresque stories is inhabited by a remarkable cast, including warring parties of Basques and other Spanish immigrants; trapped Indian mineworkers rescued by a miraculous Virgin; an Indian social climber rebuffed...

... precariously across borders, oceans, and national and regional frontiers, often torn from homelands and cast into refugee sites or encampments, gives the lie to trickle-down economics and liberal care. Such human figures flee economic crisis, ethnic intolerance, rural disintegration, war, and environmental...

... students, Mikko Harvey. Harvey went to school with one of the Boston Marathon bombers, Dzokhar Tsarnaev. The piece ends with a tribute to Bradley Manning. War writing drones Boston Marathon bombing poetry Dzokhar Tsarnaev In this personal essay, the author explores the relationship between...

... characterize both the film’s narrative as well as the conditions of its production. The chapter suggests that the MOD, as a representation of one of South Korea’s first coproductions on mainland China since the Cold War, articulates the central interest of the feature film; that is, as a self-reflective...