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Through a collection of critical essays, this work explores twelve keywords central in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: indigenismo , Americanism, colonialism, criollismo , race, transculturation, modernity, nation, gender, sexuality, testimonio , and popular culture. The central question motivating this work is how to think-epistemologically and pedagogically-about Latin American and Caribbean Studies as fields that have had different historical and institutional trajectories across the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Latin American Keywords Project: A Critical Disciplinary Genealogy; Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui, and Marisa Belausteguigoitia
PART I: INDIGENISMO
1. Indigenism, Zapatismo and Indigeneidad: Listening to the Space of Silence; Marisa Belausteguigoitia
2. Indigenismo as Nationalism, From the Liberal to the Revolutionary Era; María Josefina Salda¤a-Portillo
PART II: AMERICANISMO
3. Americanism/o: Intercultural Border Zones in Post-social Times; Juan Poblete
4. Americanism/o and the Internalization of U.S. Imperialism: A Response to Juan Poblete; John Carlos Rowe
PART III: COLONIALISM
5. Colonialism, Postcolonial, Neocolonial, Internal Colonialism, Coloniality and Decoloniality; Nelson Maldonado Torres
6. Mapping Colonial Resistance: Colonialism, Anti- ´´ ´´Indianism, ´´ ´´ and Nationalism in the Americas; Leece Lee-Oliver
PART IV: CRIOLLISMO/CREOLIZATION
7. Criollismo, Creole and Créolité; José Antonio Mazzotti
8. Creole, Criollismo and Créolité; H. Adlai Murdoch
PART V: MESTIZAJE
9. Race and the Constitutive Inequality of the Modern/Colonial Condition; José Buscaglia-Salgado
10. The Asian Presence in Mestizo Nations: A Response; Kathleen López
PART VI: TRANSCULTURATION
11. Transculturation, Syncretism, and Hibridity; Jossianna Arroyo
12. The Persistence of Racism in Critical Imaginaries on Latin America; Laura Catelli
PART VII: MODERNIDAD
13. Modernity and Modernization: the Geopolitical Relocation of Latin America; Graciela Montaldo
14. Beyond Modernity; Alejandra Laera
PART VIII: NATION
15. The Latin America Nation and its Cultural Inscriptions: Archives of Promise or Lament?; Román de la Campa
16. Multiplicity and its Discontents: A Response to Román de la Campa; Héctor Hoyos
PART IX GENDER
17. Gender/Género in Latin America; Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
18. Gender Travels South: Response to Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes; Montserrat Sagot
PART X: SEXUALITY
19. Queer/Sexualities; Licia Fiol Matta
20. Queer Articulations; Carlos Figari
PART XI. TESTIMONIO
21. Testimonio: The Witness, the Truth and the Inaudible; Ana Forcinito
22. Enunciating Alleged Truths: A Response to Ana Forcinito; Arturo Arias
PART XII. POPULAR CULTURE
23. Lo popular/ Popular Culture: Performing the Borders of Power and Resistance; Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
24. Globalized Digital Popular Cultures: A Response to Ignacio Sánchez Prado; Susan Antebi
Notes
Notes on Contributors
Index

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Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel is Professor of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, USA. She is author of From Lack to Excess: ´Minor´ Readings of Colonial Latin American Literature and Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-colonial Migrations in a Pan Caribbean Context.

Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui is Associate Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, USA. He is author of Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature and The Avowal of Difference: Queer Latino American Narratives.
Marisa Belausteguigoitia is Professor of Gender/Cultural Studies and Education at the School of Humanities at the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM). She is author with María Josefina Salda¤a-Portillo of Des/posesión: Género y territorio y luchas por la autodeterminación.

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