Critical Latin American and Latino Studies

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Critical Latin American and Latino Studies is written by Juan Poblete and published by Cultural Studies of the Americ. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0816640785 (ISBN 10) and 9780816640782 (ISBN 13).

This book brings together some of the most prominent scholars working across the spectrum of Latin American and Latino studies to explore their changing intellectual undertaking in relation to global processes of change. Critical Latin American and Latino Studies identifies the challenges and possibilities of more politically engaged and theoretically critical modes of scholarly practice. One objective is to provide a brief critical history of the study of various Latin American cultures--Latino, Chicano, Puerto Rican, among others. But these essays also serve to assess the roles of ethnic and area studies in light of changing scholarly trends, from emphases on gender and sexuality to a focus on postcoloniality and globalization. The result is an important contribution to current debates on the conditions of contemporary knowledge production.