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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Transforming Ethnicity -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Graphs -- Chapter 1: Indigenous Identities, Migration, and Youth in Southern Ecuador -- Introduction -- The Historical Struggle for Indigenous Identities in Ecuador -- Cañar and Its History of Migration -- Researching Indigenous Youth in Latin America and Ecuador -- Exploring Cañar's Indigenous Communities: Theory and Questions -- Youth and Adultcentrism -- Identity and Ethnicity -- Transnationalism and Experience -- Questions -- Fieldwork and Methodology -- Organization of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Leaving Cañar: Transnational Experience and the Production of a Migrant Subjectivity -- Individualization and Gender -- Establishing Generational Differences: Education and Imagination -- References -- Chapter 3: Guarantee, Reinvention, and Disconnections of Ethnic Identities -- "But they cannot remove the blood they carry" -- "All of us musicians here are migrants' children" -- "They have even called the police without knowing what we are doing" -- References -- Chapter 4: Adultcentrism and the Dispute about Representation -- The Local Construction of Adultcentrism -- Why Dispute Representations? -- References -- Chapter 5: A Recapitulation -- A Final Thought from the Field -- Index.

The global sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois developed during the 1940s relies significantly on a collaborative relationship with African-American sociologist and anthropologist Irene Diggs (1906–1998). Diggs was mentored by Du Bois as a graduate student at Atlanta University and later became his research assistant, secretary, and colleague. No person worked for and with Du Bois as Diggs did, for nearly 14 years. In her own work, Diggs transcended Du Bois. Using archival documentary research, I analyze the connection between Diggs and Du Bois to show how they developed a global sociological perspective that included an analysis of the color line in Latin America. My analysis has two goals: (1) to show how the Du Bois–Diggs relationship was permeated by gender inequalities and a misrecognition of Diggs's critical contribution and (2) to introduce Irene Diggs's work on Latin America between 1942 and 1953 to show how it was inscribed within the project of a global sociology of the color line. I discuss how Diggs's historical sociology expands the analysis of the Latin American color line today.

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During the 1930s and 1940s, W. E. B. Du Bois was not only interested in European colonialism in Africa, but he also approached the racial situation in the Americas, particularly Haiti, Brazil, and Cuba. In this article, I examine how Du Bois engaged strategically in a critique of racism in Cuba and the United States. I analyze how Du Bois discussed the Cuban color line as linked to colonial dispossession and explore the formation of the anti-colonial critique within global sociology. Du Bois's letters, manuscripts, and field notes during his first visit to Cuba in 1941 reveal how, to a large extent, Du Bois shared the prevailing vision of Cuba as a society free from racism. Although Du Bois only partially captured how racism worked in Cuba, he constantly affirmed how the analysis of the Cuban color line implies dealing with the analysis of American imperialism. Thus, Du Bois's approach to Cuba was fundamental in two senses. First, it led him to consider the contradictions between cultural integration and social and economic equality in a setting other than the United States. Second, Du Bois developed the fundamental place assigned to the critique of U.S. imperialism within global sociology. At the same time, Du Bois's connection with Cuba elaborates the understanding of Du Bois's global sociology.

El objetivo de este artículo es delinear dos perspectivas para el análisis del neoliberalismo a partir del pensamiento de Stuart Hall. En este sentido, se reconstruye la aproximación de este autor con el pensamiento de Marx y Gramsci, así como su análisis de la crisis de la sociedad británica en tanto fenómeno cultural, social y político en su obra Policing the crisis (1978) y The hard road to renewal (1988). Este artículo complejiza la lectura tanto del "momento althusseriano" como de la "mirada gramsciana" de Stuart Hall para comprender los principales dilemas teóricos de años setenta y ochenta. Finalmente, se observa el lugar del racismo y de la producción de sentido común como pilares del análisis de la crisis de hegemonía.***AbstractThe objective of this article is to delineate two perspectives for the analysis of neoliberalism based on Stuart Hall's thought. In this regard, the article not only addresses Hall's approach to Marx and Gramsci's thought, but also Hall's analysis on the crisis of British society, while a cultural, social, and political phenomenon as it appears in his books Policing the crisis (1978) and The hard road to renewal (1988). Therefore, this article complexifies Stuart Hall's "Althusserian moment" as well as his "Gramscian gaze" for understanding the main theoretical dilemmas of the 1970s and 1980s. Finally, this paper observes the place of racism and the production of common sense as pillars of the analysis of the hegemony crisis.

A partir de algunos aspectos en el pensamiento de Marx, se trabajan conceptos que han acompañado el análisis de la economía política, y se problematizan las condiciones y el método para una economía política del conocimiento. También se plantean las conexiones necesarias para un análisis desde el Sur Global. Así, este artículo se refiere a la devaluación de la fuerza de trabajo en los patrones de acumulación del capital y en las formas de desposesión en el siglo XXI, además de incorporar la crítica a las perspectivas eurocéntricas. ; Addressing some aspects of Marx's thought, it not only works on concepts that have accompanied the analysis of the political economy but also problematizes the conditions and method for a political economy of knowledge, as well as the necessary connections for an analysis from the Global South. Thus, considering the devaluation of the labor force and the expansion of dispossession in 21st-century capitalist accumulation, the article incorporates criticism of Eurocentric perspectives.

El libro de Tianna Paschel tiene un valor analítico y metodológico, al abordar el activismo y la participación en la conformación de los movimientos negros en Colombia y Brasil, en las últimas décadas. La investigación da a conocer la conformación de sujetos políticos afro en estos dos países, reconstruyendo el contexto histórico en el que emergen tales movimientos, marcando un cambio de la matriz de mestizaje a una matriz de derechos. En este sentido, Paschel analiza la manera en que se institucionalizaron diferentes conceptos de la negritud, ideologías estatales con respecto a la raza que jugaron en el campo político, los procesos que llevaron al reconocimiento de derechos durante las décadas de 1980 y 1990, así como las consecuentes políticas ocurridas en la década de 2000 y 2010. El libro también integra un análisis etnográfico sobre construcción de los sujetos políticos negros, desde el trabajo de los activistas y organizaciones y, los espacios creados al interior del Estado, que fueron objeto de disputa.

El presente trabajo analiza las representaciones y las narrativas sobre personas jóvenes en la prensa de Costa Rica en el marco de las protestas estudiantiles acontecidas entre 2010 y 2011. Para esto se problematiza la cobertura mediática que los principales diarios hacen de las prácticas juveniles, pues da cuenta de la compleja crisis de la institucionalidad soportada en torno a valores construidos y promulgados desde una lógica de "poder de exclusión" adultocéntrico. El análisis de esta situación permite comprender cómo se construyen los acontecimientos mediáticos que se enmarcan dentro de agendas políticas basadas en el sentimiento de inseguridad. O presente trabalho analisa as representações e as narrativas sobre pessoas jovens na imprensa da Costa Rica, no marco dos protestos estudantis que ocorreram entre 2010 e 2011. Para isso, o texto problematiza a cobertura dos principais diários sobre as práticas juvenis, pois dá conta da complexa crise da institucionalidade em torno dos valores construídos e promulgados a partir uma lógica de "poder de exclusão" adultocêntrico. A análise desta situação permite compreender como são construídos os acontecimentos midiáticos que se desenrolam dentro de agendas políticas baseadas no sentimento de insegurança. This paper analyzes the representations and narratives about young people in the press of Costa Rica as part of the student protests that occurred between 2010 and 2011. To this end, the text problematizes the media coverage made by major newspapers about youth practices and as this evidence the complex crisis of the institutionality anchored in values that are constructed and enacted from a logic of "exclusion power" adult-centered. The analysis of this situation allows us to understand how they are constructed media events that are part of political agendas based on the feeling of insecurity.

This article problematizes around the theme of political subjectivities relating the contri- butions of Italian sociologist Alberto Melucci and Italian philosopher Paolo Virno regarding their ideas about identity and individuation in the context of post-Fordist capitalism. This paper offers a conceptualization of post-Fordism and its relation to the changes in the conception of work, the problem of identities and the reconfiguration of political action. As a point of arrival is analyzed Melucci's conception around the idea of "information society" and political potential would imply, returning to Virno, the development of a "communication society" from his particular way of con- ceiving the integration of singularities. ; En este artículo se problematiza en torno al tema de las subjetividades políticas relacionando los aportes del sociólogo italiano Alberto Melucci y del filósofo italiano Paolo Virno con respecto a las ideas de identidad e individuación en el contexto del capitalismo posfordista. Con este propósito se conceptualiza el posfordismo y su relación con las transformaciones en la concepción del trabajo, la problemática de las identidades y la reconfiguración de lo político. Como punto de llegada se analiza la concepción de Melucci en torno a la "sociedad de información" y el potencial político que implicaría, retornando a Virno, el desarrollo de una "sociedad de la comunicación" desde su particular manera de concebir la integración de las singularidades.

En este artículo se problematiza en torno al tema de las subjetividades políticas relacionando los aportes del sociólogo italiano Alberto Melucci y del filósofo italiano Paolo Virno con respecto a las ideas de identidad e individuación en el contexto del capitalismo posfordista. Con este propósito se conceptualiza el posfordismo y su relación con las transformaciones en la concepción del trabajo, la problemática de las identidades y la reconfiguración de lo político. Como punto de llegada se analiza la concepción de Melucci en torno a la "sociedad de información" y el potencial político que implicaría, retornando a Virno, el desarrollo de una "sociedad de la comunicación" desde su particular manera de concebir la integración de las singularidades. ; This article problematizes around the theme of political subjectivities relating the contri- butions of Italian sociologist Alberto Melucci and Italian philosopher Paolo Virno regarding their ideas about identity and individuation in the context of post-Fordist capitalism. This paper offers a conceptualization of post-Fordism and its relation to the changes in the conception of work, the problem of identities and the reconfiguration of political action. As a point of arrival is analyzed Melucci's conception around the idea of "information society" and political potential would imply, returning to Virno, the development of a "communication society" from his particular way of con- ceiving the integration of singularities.