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This collection of essays offers a comprehensive overview of colonial legacies of racial and social inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. Rich in theoretical framework and close textual analysis, these essays offer new paradigms and approaches to both reading and resolving the opposing forces of race, class, and the power of states.

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""Despite recent shifts towards perspectives that attempt to address indigeneity and blackness within a single frame, it is still not common to find texts that adopt this agenda in a continental sweep. Branche's collection helps cross the black/indigenous gulf with an accessible and engaging set of essays.""--Journal of Latin American Studies ""Unusually broad in its geographic scope; the authors are to be congratulated in extending their scholarly focus beyond the familiar territory of Mexico and Peru.""--Hispanic American Historical Review ""The geographical and historical breadth of the volume is simply remarkable. . . . A solid contribution and an invaluable source for teaching.""--Bulletin of Latin American Research

Despite recent shifts towards perspectives that attempt to address indigeneity and blackness within a single frame, it is still not common to find texts that adopt this agenda in a continental sweep. Branche's collection helps cross the black/indigenous gulf with an accessible and engaging set of essays. --Journal of Latin American Studies Unusually broad in its geographic scope; the authors are to be congratulated in extending their scholarly focus beyond the familiar territory of Mexico and Peru. --Hispanic American Historical Review The geographical and historical breadth of the volume is simply remarkable. . . . A solid contribution and an invaluable source for teaching. --Bulletin of Latin American Research

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Jerome Branche is professor of Latin American literature and cultural studies and chair of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings.

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