Stigma, Citizenship, and Anti-Haitianism in the Bahamas
The historical roots and contemporary experience of anti-Haitian discrimination in The Bahamas Anti-Haitianism is deeply ingrained in The Bahamas-a multifaceted web of exclusion and hostility that bars the descendants of Haitian migrants from belonging and inclusion in the country of their birth. Tracing the legacy of anti-Black and anti-French ......
Stigma, Citizenship, and Anti-Haitianism in the Bahamas
The historical roots and contemporary experience of anti-Haitian discrimination in The Bahamas Anti-Haitianism is deeply ingrained in The Bahamas-a multifaceted web of exclusion and hostility that bars the descendants of Haitian migrants from belonging and inclusion in the country of their birth. Tracing the legacy of anti-Black and anti-French ......
An excellent overview of the diversity of Mexican music and its powerful role in society to awaken, narrate, and interpret political consciousness. The essays in Migration, Dislocation, and Place Making in Mexican Popular Music explore a convoluted musical landscape through personal testimonial, cultural history, and musical ethnography. The ......
An excellent overview of the diversity of Mexican music and its powerful role in society to awaken, narrate, and interpret political consciousness. The essays in Migration, Dislocation, and Place Making in Mexican Popular Music explore a convoluted musical landscape through personal testimonial, cultural history, and musical ethnography. The ......
Governance and Elections in Brazil's Urban Margins
Based on more than two decades of ethnographic engagement with the urban margins of Brazil, this book offers unique and detailed insights into the "politics of the periphery". Providing a long-term analysis of the residents of the periphery of the city of Recife and their interactions with state representatives and institutions, it contributes to ......
The story of La Llorona-the weeping spirit everyone recognizes but no one wants to face-has been passed down orally for hundreds of years, spanning nearly all of Latin America and tracing its origins to Mesoamerican myths. Yet despite her prevalence, La Llorona is far from the region's only folkloric monster. Others, such as the Pishtaco, the ......
The story of La Llorona-the weeping spirit everyone recognizes but no one wants to face-has been passed down orally for hundreds of years, spanning nearly all of Latin America and tracing its origins to Mesoamerican myths. Yet despite her prevalence, La Llorona is far from the region's only folkloric monster. Others, such as the Pishtaco, the ......
Visualizing Latinx elevates the stories of contemporary Latinx creators working in fashion, independent filmmaking, and public art who confront the systemic erasure of Latinx creativity. Arlene Davila documents how these creatives strive to visualize their communities as a means of transforming society and asserting inclusion on their own terms. ......