Category Archives: Recent IAS Books

This definitive account of the Chicano movement in 1960s Denver reveals the intolerance and brutality that inspired and accompanied the urban Chicano organization known as the Crusade for Justice. Ernesto Vigil, an expert in the discourse of radical movements of … Continue reading →

The first Latin American actor to become a superstar, Ramon Novarro was for years one of Hollywood’s top actors. Born Ramón Samaniego to a prominent Mexican family, he arrived in America in 1916, a refugee from civil wars. By the … Continue reading →

EuropAmerikas beschäftigt sich mit der Gestaltung der transatlantischen Beziehungen, wobei insbesondere auch der Südatlantik in den Blick genommen wird. Jenseits etablierter Formeln vom “alten” Europa und den “neuen” Amerikas wird eine Perspektive entwickelt, welche die Gleichzeitigkeit und gegenseitige Bedingtheit des … Continue reading →

Space can best be defined not by looking at borders and territories but, rather, by focussing on movements of crossing and re-crossing. Today, the horizons of traditional Area Studies have to be opened up by innovative TransArea Studies which generate … Continue reading →

Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature offers a rich, interdisciplinary treatment of modern black literature and cultural history, showing how debates over Africa in the works of major black writers generated productive models for imagining political agency. Yogita Goyal analyzes … Continue reading →

Buy at Amazon.com Buy at Amazon.de Walsh, Catherine, Alvaro Garcia Linera, and Walter Mignolo. Interculturalidad, descolonizacion del estado y del conocimiento/ Interculturality, Descolonization of The State and Knowledge. Ediciones del Signo, 2006.

Provides a detailed treatment of an important topic that has received no scholarly attention: the surprising transformation of indigenous peoples’ movements into viable political parties in the 1990s in four Latin American countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela) and their failure … Continue reading →

This second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field investigates the way in which travel writing has constructed an image of the world beyond Europe for European readerships. … Continue reading →

En America Latina, la expansion economica y la influencia cultural de Estados Unidos no hubiera sido posible sin una proliferacion de publicaciones y nuevos conocimientos sobre la region en campos de las ciencias sociales y las humanidades. El libro enfatiza … Continue reading →

In this powerful cultural critique, Ariel Dorfman explores the political and social messages behind the smiling faces that inhabit familiar books, comics, and magazines. He reveals the ideological messages conveyed in works of popular culture such as “Donald Duck” comics, … Continue reading →