In the Americas colonialism informs nearly all aspects of life. From European invasion onward
it established a durable matrix of power based on gender relations racism and ethnic
classifications that defined white and criollo male superiority over the indigenous and 'Afro
American' as well as over Asian Jewish Arabic Muslim and Hindu populations peoples and
nations in spite of the ambiguity of ethnic and racial frontiers. Moreover in recent times
the thrust to decolonize has become a major aspiration that implies the rescue and
re-evaluation of native and subordinated cultures. Colonialism has deeply informed cultural
production and popular culture in the Americas. Jazz blues rock music and hip-hop have given
voice to the experience of ethnic and racial exclusion and Latin America's boom literature is
informed by 'magic' indigenous-colonial cosmovisions. Ethnic and racial struggles against quota
systems and or auto-ethnographic media productions are integral parts of the fight against the
negative aspects of the colonial legacy. This volume adopts a broad concept of colonialism
which refers not only to a specific historical period but also to a relational mode that
creates asymmetric power relations and modes of exploitation that persist and that are
constantly renewed but also contested. Rather than trying to give a comprehensive account of
colonial and decolonial dynamics this collection illustrates the centrality of colonialism in
the history of the Americas and the wide range of areas in which decolonizing efforts and
postcolonial processes continue to impact the Western Hemisphere. CONTENTS HEIDRUN MÖRTL JOSEF
RAAB AND OLAF KALTMEIER Introduction: Colonialism Coloniality and Decolonization in the
Americas .............. 1 I. COLONIALISM COLONIALISMO DONNA J. NASH Moving to a New Place: The
Archaeological Study of Migration in the Ancient Andes
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25 OLAF KALTMEIER Para que quede memoria del y de los dichos sus serbizios- Un escudo de armas
para el cacique Sancho Hacho: Comunicación político-visual en el entrecruzamiento del temprano
Estado colonial en Ecuador ............................. 45 INES LINKE In Search of the New
World: (Re)inventing Bahia .................................................... 59 RUTH Y. HSU
Rousseau and Emile in Karen Tei Yamashita's Brazil-Maru: The Intertexts of Colonies Utopia
and Freedom ...................................................... 75 ROBERT KEITH COLLINS
Toward an Inter-American Study of African Transculturalization in Native America
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91 JOSEF RAAB Colonial and Decolonial Thinking: Race Discourses in Literatures of the Americas
....................................................... 103 II. COLONIALITY COLONIALIDAD OLGA
RIES El mestizaje como trauma: sexualidad y violencia en los discursos (supra)nacionales en
Sudamérica en el siglo XIX .................................................... 121 ROCÍO
ROSERO JÁCOME Montalvo el disidente y Mera el resistente: Discursos críticos sobre religión y
política en el Ecuador 1860-1890 ..................... 135 BÁRBARA SILVA The Virgin and the
Observatory: Astronomy Modernity and the U.S. Mills Expedition in Chile
.................................................................... 149 MATTHEW N. JOHNSTON
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