29326: Guevarra: announce NEW BOOK: The Devil behind the Mirror (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: L Guevarra <l_guevarra@ucpress.edu>


The University of California Press  is pleased to announce the publication of:

The Devil behind the Mirror: Globalization and Politics in the Dominican 
Republic

<B>Steven Gregory, </B>Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American 
Studies at Columbia University, is author of _Santería in New York City: A 
Study in Cultural Resistance _and _Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place 
in an Urban Community. _He coedited _Race _with Roger Sanjek.

http://go.ucpress.edu/GregoryDevil

"In his stunningly vivid picture of communities grappling with the demons of 
economic globalization, Gregory shows how peoples' livelihoods are devalued and 
torn asunder when they are exposed to the rough justice of the market. An 
absorbing case study and an ethnographic tour de force."-Andrew Ross, author of 
_Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade _


In _The Devil behind the Mirror, _Steven Gregory provides a compelling and 
intimate account of the impact that transnational processes associated with 
globalization are having on the lives and livelihoods of people in the 
Dominican Republic. Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the 
adjacent towns of Boca Chica and Andrés, Gregory's study deftly demonstrates 
how transnational flows of capital, culture, and people are mediated by 
contextually specific power relations, politics, and history. He explores such 
topics as the informal economy, the making of a telenova, sex tourism, and 
racism and discrimination against Haitians, who occupy the lowest rung on the 
Dominican economic ladder. Innovative and beautifully written, _The Devil 
behind the Mirror _masterfully situates the analysis of global economic change 
in everyday lives.

Full information about the bookis available online: 
http://go.ucpress.edu/GregoryDevil


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Lolita Guevarra
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University of California Press
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