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... were central to articulating divergent political agendas and defining national differences as racial differences. Chilean tales about emancipating Chinese slaves affirmed Chile's superiority over despotic Peruvians. Moreover, in stories about a Chinese oath, Chileans affirmed their civilizing mission...

... drew upon concepts developed by European philosophers (Pascal, Fichte, Hegel, Dilthey, Renan, Ortega y Gasset, and Croce) but which was singularly Peruvian, since as an affirmative historicist apprehension of the collective subject or self named “Peru” it was “homologous with its own formation...

... that Cortés would give us credit for rejecting this particular message. Cortés criticizes us further for failing to give the case for as well as against affirmative action. In fact, we devote two pages (pp. 256-258) to summarize the case for affirmative action. I am surprised that Cortés did not commend...

..., to challenge the orthodoxy of racial democracy. Telles then chronicles the rise of affirmative action, citing its origins among black activists and its boost from the serendipitous election of Fernando Henrique Cardoso as president of Brazil. The anthropologist Cardoso had written about black culture...

... promoting affirmative action at UCSD, where Ruiz chaired the history department from 1971 to 1976. In this story, the author’s Mexican background structures both his identity and experiences, in a country and at a time when prejudicial attitudes against Mexican Americans have been extensive. Ruiz...

... privilege and inequality. The stories told here do unmask the ongoing trend to present discrimination as an isolated and rare occurrence, and the “class ceiling” policies that affect Latino academics. At a time when the nation is debating the merits of affirmative action programs, the stories in this book...

... countries. What has changed in the last two decades is the deliberate borrowing of ideas by one country from the other. Unusually insightful is his in-depth analysis of affirmative action as it is being worked out in the two countries. The U.S. lay reader may be surprised to learn that affirmative action...

... of the common good. Latin American culture is informed by the moral and pragmatic choices made by Iberians in the sixteenth century. Latin Americans’ resistance to utilitarian and instrumental rationalities is not a sign of cultural inferiority, but an affirmation of a resilient moral tradition well suited...

... that the Church “reforms” led by Bernardino Rivadavia in the province of Buenos Aires in 1822 were responsible for retarding the strength and welfare of the Argentine Church for years. Moreover, he affirms that the anticlerical measures adopted by the government at Buenos Aires made it easier for many devout...

... to affirm the sense of recent church documents that men and women are indeed made in God’s image. To Comblin, this task of symbolic and institutional affirmation is all the more vital given the views of national security ideologues, who see God’s images only in terms of the state, the nation, power, law...

... in order to affirm the vigor and effectiveness of Mexican speech. It acted as a “primer” for Mexicans “to think about their colonized language” (pp. 78–79). Lizardi’s positive representations of the behaviors and values of colonials “help[ed] Mexicans to consider decolonization” (p. 86). The novelist went...

... or brown. The word pardo could also denote social status with no reference to racial characteristics. For example, some black persons born in Brazil claimed themselves to be pardos. To be described as a pardo affirmed one’s status in a hierarchical society where institutions (the Catholic Church...

... and downplaying differences. Highlighting the “darker currents” of modernity (p. 27), she criticizes certain Americans for ignoring the “shameful underside” of their otherwise perfectly good civilization (pp. 226–27). Modern Inquisitions deals with a number of significant issues. The affirmation...

... through the streets of gold in a heavenly city are, in fact, affirmations of our humanity” (p. 281). “When we are in-Christ,” Richardson continues, “the weak, the tortured, the despised, the crucified, and the dead, normally objects of scorn, become icons of solidarity. This symbolic reversal, so...

... twenty-first century. Kelvin Santiago-Valles offers a critical reexamination of negrista poetry, which he argues helped resolve “colonized blanchitude ’s crisis of representation” (p. 60). Gislene Aparecida dos Santos studies the attitudes of Brazilian high school students toward affirmative action...

... important, they are based on primary sources from archives in Veracruz that Cardoso did not consult. Despite their eighteenth-century orientation, they would have provided a much broader range of materials and by doing so might have forced Cardoso to modify or reconsider some of the points that he affirms...

... is a marvel. His study of the ways in which Christian writers substituted Andean tropes and images for European ones is another masterpiece of analysis. Some of the author’s affirmations seem doubtful. When writing on pastoral Quechua, he does not use any model of Andean religion, yet it was Andean...

... world,” affirms one of the authors (Howard J. Wiarda, p. 3), “corporatist or neo-corporatist forms of authority and sociopolitical organizations appear to have staged a resurgence.” Rather small in size, the book nevertheless offers a relatively wide analytical spectrum. The authors study...

... discusses in chapter 3. Chapter 4 explores paramilitary efforts at the regional and national levels, as paramilitaries “turned statelessness into an affirmative political project of regional affirmation and state formation that tried to reconcile their narrow self-interests with practices of grassroots...

... to substantiate the major thesis of his work—that independence and liberty were the twin objectives of the revolutionary events in 1810. He categorically denies the assertion of some revisionists that independence was not a prime motive of Mariano Mareno and his followers and further affirms Mitre’s position...