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...Rachel Sarah O'Toole Duke University Press 2007 From the Rivers of Guinea to the Valleys of Peru BECOMING A BRAN DIASPORA WITHIN SPANISH SLAVERY On a Sunday of rest in 1662, three enslaved men from today’s Guinea- Rachel Sarah...

... terminates in death and aims to destroy a community.4 Nowhere was this strategy adopted more ferociously than in Peru and Guatemala during the civil wars of the 1980s and 1990s by armies engaged in a scorched-earth policy against insurgency. In both...

... of the great economic scenes of the 1980s in Peru. Victor Vich Popular sectors of society responded with great vitality to the generalized economic crisis, the inequality of opportunities, the lack of employment, and the clear aspiration to be “independent” not only because of their expanding...

... at the Pontifi cia Universidad Católica del Perú and works as a researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP). He has published El discurso de la calle: Los cómicos ambulantes y las tensiones de la modernidad en el Perú (Red para el Desarrollo de las Cien- cias Sociales), El caníbal es el otro...

...- ing into shape: “I will be able to write a narrative about Chimbote and Supe that will be like sipping from a strong liquor the substance of the simmering Peru of these days, its boiling point and the burning materials with which that liquor is formed.”14 In the novel, Chimbote’s setting...

... and “suck” his illness. This question, however, usually does not figure in people’s recounting, as it didn’t in Sofía’s, of what healers materialize from a patient’s body inside the cuy. Sofía is neither a peasant nor indigenous. A member of Peru’s urban middle class, she is a descendent from the creole...

... Introduction: The Traffic in History  David Kazanjian and María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo 1 The Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas  Pamela Voekel and Elliott Young 9 From the Rivers of Guinea to the Valleys of Peru: Becoming a Bran Diaspora within Spanish...

... the inevitable limitations of its scope. It is a risk we embrace, even as we mark the erasures that will ensue. particularly In “From the Rivers of Guinea to the Valleys of Peru: Becoming a Bran Diaspora within Spanish Slavery,” Rachel...

... after I left the penitentiary. I am not ashamed anymore. I am as poor as they come, and it is just me and my daughter.” House arrest as a site of neglect punishes women even more harshly when they are migrants, Indigenous, and/or survivors of abuse. Amalia had come to Argentina from Peru for surgery...

... the experience of colonization, the occupation of indigenous territories, the acquisition of Wallmapu, the nineteenth-century expansions that extended the Atacama Desert, diminished Peru, and left Bolivia landlocked. On the other hand, Vanessa’s “ill-fitting body” did not easily fit into the girl’s...

... Peru, where extraterrestrial knowledge and global consciousness evince an emergent 2 Sartorius and Seigel ∙ Introduction “planetary optic” that speaks to the frustrations of individuals who find themselves with (often literally) no ground on which to stand.5...

..., Devil’s Lane, 232 – 46; Carlos Aguirre, “Working the System: Black Slaves and the Courts in Lima, Peru, 1821 –1854,” in Crossing Boundaries: Comparative His- tory of Black People in Diaspora, ed. Darlene Clark Hine and Jacqueline McLeod...

... of their reverberations. We were heartened by the range of responses, particularly their regional and geographical breadth. We wanted to resist the pull of a US-centric framing of the moment, and this volume contains reports from India, South Africa, the Philippines, Singapore, Peru, the United Kingdom. It also...

... . Gilmore Ruth Wilson . Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2007 . Graeter Stefanie . “ Infrastructural Incorporations: Toxic Storage, Corporate Indemnity, and Ethical Deferral in Peru's Neoextractive...

... the transport of South Asian labor, while American ships helped transport up to 225,000 Chinese laborers to Cuba and Peru between 1847 and 1874. Controversies over American participation in this lucrative coolie trade intensified in the United States...

...), is a playful meditation on the mobility and metamorphoses undergone by two migrants: the potato, first cultivated by the Incas in Peru and later incorporated into the U.S. diet, and Augusto Rivera, Alex’s father. With a ribald sense of humor, Rivera suggests the convergence of his...

... ∙ Infrastructural Drift in Seismic Cities Figure 3. Map of coastal area between Valparaíso and Talcahuano, showing the Peru-­Chile Trench. Constitución was closest to the epicenter and directly in the path of the initial wave. Arrows in the inset show the direction...

...-person testimonies from the victims are crucial. Testimonies usually appear early in the process. Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission read seventeen thousand testimonies before issuing a report in August 2003 about the twenty-year-long genocide of tribal peoples.2 To teach the ignorant...

... on the Occupy Musicians First Year: September 2011 – 2012 website, www .occupymusicians.com/firstyear. 8. Shane Greene, “The Problem of Peru’s Punk Underground: An Approach to Under-­Fuck the System,” Journal of Popular Music Studies 24, no. 4 (2012...

... (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004). For the Peruvian case, see Estens- soro Fuchs et al., Los cuadros de mestizaje del virrey Amat: La representación etnográfica en el Perú colonial (The Mestizaje Paintings of the Viceroy Amat: Ethnographic Represen...