This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture
(mestiçagem-or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth …

Paisanos Chinos tracks Chinese Mexican transnational political activities in the wake of the
anti-Chinese campaigns that crossed Mexico in 1931. Threatened by violence, Chinese …

Lo global es un concepto clave en nuestra era. Hace más de dos décadas las humanidades
y las ciencias sociales descubrieron la importancia de la globalidad y la globalización como …

" For just under thirty years, between its creation in 1928 and its closure in 1956, the Barrio
Rojo, or red-light district around Huatica Street, originally known as 20 September Street, in …

The Religion of Life examines the interconnections and relationship between Catholicism
and eugenics in early twentieth-century Chile. Specifically, it demonstrates that the …

Buenos Aires psychoanalysts resisting imperialism. Brazilian parasitologists embracing
communism as an antidote to rural misery. Nicaraguan revolutionaries welcoming Cuban …

Although on a lesser scale than the United States, southern South America became a major
receiving region during the period of mass transatlantic migration in the late 19th and early …

Schools are one of the institutions that determine the possibilities to participate in society.
Therefore, access to education is crucial to the settlement process of immigrants, minorities …

Latin American history since the late nineteenth century has rarely been treated under the
rubric of 'settler colonialism'. 1 While historical atlases and popular culture have long …

In response to the mass globalization of the twenty-first century and associated migration, a
recent boom in social-scientific research has analyzed various manifestations of 'binational' …