“A magisterial tour de force that will be received as a significant contribution to the historiography of race in colonial Latin America.” —Cecily Jones,

What is whiteness? Why is it worth using as a tool in the social sciences? Making sociological sense of the idea of whiteness, this book skilfully argues how th

When Roya, an Iranian American high school student, is asked to identify her race, she feels anxiety and doubt. According to the federal government, she and oth

This is a book about the links between politics and literacy, and about how radical ideas spread in a world without printing presses. In the late eighteenth and

This book analyzes how national and international dancers contributed to developing Mexico's cultural politics and notions of the nation at different historical