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The Labyrinth of Solitude
A book of essays on Mexican identity by the poet and later Nobel laureate, first published in 1950 and revised in 1959. Paz begins with the pachuco, the…
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A Theology of Liberation
The book that gave liberation theology its name, written by a Peruvian Catholic priest and published in Lima in 1971; the English translation by Caridad Inda and John…
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
A hybrid book of essays and poems by a Chicana writer from the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, written in a mix of English, Spanish, Tex-Mex and…
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Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América
A work by the Argentine philosopher, published in 1970 and translated into English in 2010 by María Lugones and Joshua M. Price. Kusch draws on fieldwork in the…
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Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
The first full-length book by the American writer and teacher bell hooks, the pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins, published in 1981. Its title echoes the question attributed…
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The Darker Side of Western Modernity
A scholarly book by the Argentine-born semiotician, subtitled Global Futures, Decolonial Options. Its central claim is that modernity and coloniality are two sides of one process: since 1492…
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Teaching to Transgress
A collection of essays subtitled Education as the Practice of Freedom, in which bell hooks reflects on her years as a student and teacher. She recalls the segregated…
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Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition against Multiple Oppressions
A collection of essays, several revised from earlier journal articles, by the Argentine-born philosopher who taught in the United States. Lugones asks how people who face several oppressions…
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Women, Race & Class
A history of the American women's movement read through race and class by the activist and philosopher Angela Davis. It begins with slavery, arguing that enslaved women were…
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The Jamaica Letter
A long letter that Bolívar wrote in Kingston in September 1815, in exile after a defeat, replying to questions from Henry Cullen, an English-born merchant on the island.…
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