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.