... Spanish America This essay engages the making of black identities under colonial Spanish Herman L. American slavery, thereby confronting a set of questions related to the Bennett meaning and representation of blackness, still a reigning concern of my intellectual generation though many...

...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...

... of what I argue is punk’s puro pedo temporality. Puro pedo or the general pedo is a Spanish Tex-Mex vernacular term that has a range of meanings, translations, and utility. In general, puro pedo is understood to mean talk with no action, bullshit, “no worries,” or other significations of insouciance. Puro...

....” It explores forms of historical storytelling across a broad range of cultural materials, from Chinese American activist Wong Chin Foo's 1874 “fugitive coolie” narrative and bilingual Spanish-Chinese labor contracts to the novels of contemporary writers such as Cristina García, Amitav Ghosh, Toni Morrison...

... in 1936 and went to battle Franco’s fascist forces in the Spanish civil war, most were galvanized not only by socialist and anti-imperial ideals but also by a Pan-Africanist consciousness that prized Islamic Spain as a glorious era when African civilization extended into Europe. Inspired...

..., Register Formation In a study of the center-left Spanish newspaper El País, Teun Van Dijk discusses the representation of Evo Morales as a strange ethnic other because of the newspaper’s public indecision as to whether to call him indio...

... himself is not immune to processes of racialization; while actively involved in the Puerto Rican life of his neighborhood, he was neither Puerto Rican nor Spanish speaking, factors which constrain and compel his project to take on what...

... of black baseball history. Language figures as a significant obstacle. Most baseball historians are unable to fully capture the experience of Afro-Latinos by interviewing the former players in their native language of Spanish. This renders most of the overwhelmingly Spanish- speaking Afro...

... previously assumed to be universal. As Margarita Silva, a Central American participant, explained, she initially into air. declined our invitation because the term transnacional evokes multinational corporations for Spanish speakers: she feared that we were gathering to celebrate neoliberal...

... 17 Biocommunicability: The Neoliberal Subject and Its Contradictions in News Coverage of Health Issues Charles L. Briggs and Daniel C. Hallin 43 Writing into a Void: Representing Slavery and Freedom in the Narrative of Colonial Spanish America  Herman L. Bennett 67 Urban...

... or Farsi or Urdu, know what they’re talking about.”1 Bush’s view on the learning of foreign languages, however crudely phrased, reflects certain ideas about translation and empire that have a long history. Since the Spanish conquest and religious conversion of the native peoples of the New...

... on colonialism and transla- tion, especially with regard to the Philippines, including The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines (Duke University Press), “The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Poli- tics in the Contemporary Philippines,” Public...

... cinema on the skin of a trans- sexual body. In this respect, the violence that produces the sex change becomes a means to acknowledge how deeply the violence of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath is etched on Spain’s social...

... 2003 Contributors Daniel Balderston is professor and chair of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa. His most recent books are El deseo, Enorme cicatriz luminosa (both eXcultura), Borges, realidades y...

... including “Dora the Explorer, Constructing ‘Latinidades’ and the Politics of Global Citizenship” (Latino Studies). Jill Lane is associate professor in the department of Spanish and Portu- guese at New York University, deputy director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics...

... 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...

... in the Spanish/Mexican heritage of Tucsonense Indian fighters of the 96 Guidotti-Hernández ∙ Gender and the Camp Grant Massacre region. That is, the U.S. Army stationed in the territory would not pro- tect the property and lives of U.S. citizens, so vigilante citizens took care...

... another letter, written in Spanish, after reading Hughes’s Not without Laughter, his recently published novel about a black family’s struggles in Kansas. She informed Hughes that she was especially taken by the female characters in the story, particularly Aunt Hager, whom she described as a “good...

..., continued to be perceived as an enemy, and this led, in fact, to the founding of two institu- tions: the Spanish Inquisition, dedicated to rooting out conspirators from among this population, as well as the statutes of limpieza de sangre, or blood purity, which required those seeking positions...

... landfall in 1494 and where Spanish colonizers first settled Jamaica’s northern coast. Contesting the narrative of ingenious gentlemanly discovery promoted by both learned and commercial market- ers of the Sloane brand...