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...Lori Boornazian Diel Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You: Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World . By Rabasa José . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 264 pp. Cloth , $55.00...

...Nathalie Koc Menard Art from a Fractured Past: Memory and Truth-Telling in Post–Shining Path Peru . Edited by Milton Cynthia E. . Afterword by Stern Steve J. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 307 pp. Paper...

...T. G. Powell Telling Tongues: Language Policy in Mexico, Colony to Nation . By Heath Shirley Brice . Foreword by Hymes Dell . New York and London , 1972 . Teachers College Press, Columbia University . Map. Tables. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xx , 300 . Cloth...

...Edward Telles; René Flores Abstract In this study we use statistical analysis of nationally representative surveys from the 2010 AmericasBarometer to examine how color, nationality, and several individual characteristics are related to white identification in 17 Latin American countries. Unlike...

...Lorena Féres da Silva Telles [email protected] Part 3 reassesses the historical narratives of manumission and miscegenation, engaging a critical historiography that challenges the myth of racial democracy in Brazil and also exploring the tensions between the roles played...

... the new carceral logics through its prison reform stance. Since it was the only political party in which most of its leadership had all been imprisoned, it also offered a space for formerly incarcerated, self-educated workers to become career politicians. Ultimately, this essay tells the story of how...

...Geneviève Dorais Abstract This article tells an untold story about Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, the legendary leader of the Peruvian Aprista Party. It contextualizes and deepens the existing analysis of how he came of age politically and engaged with the formation of the American Popular...

...Mark Q. Sawyer Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil . By Telles Edward E. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2004 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xx , 324 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007...

...Cassia Roth [email protected] Teresa Benguela e Felipa Crioula estavam grávidas: Maternidade e escravidão no Rio de Janeiro (1830–1888) . By Lorena Féres da Silva Telles . São Paulo : Editora Unifesp , 2022 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography . 368 pp...

...Robert J. Cottrol Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America . By Telles Edward E. and the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2014 . Illustrations. Tables. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index...

... of information, some new and some already known. The words of José Américo were transcribed without editing; hence, the book tells stories without a central thesis. It is a kind of story that a grandfather would tell his grandchildren. José Américo tells us that Washington Luís denied the João Pessoa...

..., and the disappeared? Stern’s “subjects” tell the reader their own story; all are different, yet all together form part of what he calls “Chile’s memory box” (p. xxviii). Two substantive comments are in order. First, Stern’ s Remembering Pinochet’s Chile is a pertinent addition to the witness accounts, personal...

... That same evening, as Cortés tells the story, Moctezuma handed over his entire dominions to Cortés and his liege lord. 3 At that moment the Spanish Empire in America was born, and with it the age of European imperialism. At its birth, that imperialism was composed, as it was to be for the next four...

... projects onto their own community. In “From Cold Wars to Drug Wars,” Goett tells how the militarization of the coast since the Cold War has transformed into a drug war that has subjected Monkey Point to quasi-military occupation and intrusive race-based policing. She then describes local activists' efforts...

... to historians who would deal with the development of thought concerning agrarian reform or to those who would analyze the conflicting intellectual currents of Brazil’s attempting to emerge as a major world power. It tells us nothing of the past, however, except for a brief characterization of the fazendeiro...

... Niño is a hard read. Set in a grim Guatemala City, it starts out by telling us that urban youth, once “heroic,” are now “criminal”: all have “gone down the drain” (p. 2). The book thus at first appears to be an account of the rise of the notorious gangs in the largest city in Central America...

... with an epilogue by Paula Findlen on the history of measuring weather as an object lesson in how to narrate nature, and a timely afterword by Alan Mikhail on coronavirus as an invisible global materiality that we come to know intimately because it robs our breath. As the editors tell us in the acknowledgments...

... accounts by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer and by Richard Immerman; but he can rely on no such secondary source for the internal dynamics of Guatemala. Hence, his analysis of Communist influence in the Arbenz government is shallow. Similarly, Rabe erroneously tells us that, in the United Nations...

... in the Caribbean are not standing still is plainly evident to the author of this work who is Research Professor of Latin American Studies, Rollins College, Florida. In his Preface he tells us that this is an updated version of the 1967 edition of Caribbean Patterns: “over 30,000 words—amounting to about one...