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.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Latin American Keywords Project: A Critical Disciplinary Genealogy; Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui, and Marisa Belausteguigoitia
PART I: INDIGENISMO
1. Indigenism, Zapatismo and Indigeneidad: Listening to the Space of Silence; Marisa Belausteguigoitia
2. Indigenismo as Nationalism, From the Liberal to the Revolutionary Era; María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
PART II: AMERICANISMO
3. Americanism/o: Intercultural Border Zones in Post-social Times; Juan Poblete
4. Americanism/o and the Internalization of U.S. Imperialism: A Response to Juan Poblete; John Carlos Rowe
PART III: COLONIALISM
5. Colonialism, Postcolonial, Neocolonial, Internal Colonialism, Coloniality and Decoloniality; Nelson Maldonado Torres
6. Mapping Colonial Resistance: Colonialism, Anti- '' ''Indianism, '' '' and Nationalism in the Americas; Leece Lee-Oliver
PART IV: CRIOLLISMO/CREOLIZATION
7. Criollismo, Creole and Créolité; José Antonio Mazzotti
8. Creole, Criollismo and Créolité; H. Adlai Murdoch
PART V: MESTIZAJE
9. Race and the Constitutive Inequality of the Modern/Colonial Condition; José Buscaglia-Salgado
10. The Asian Presence in Mestizo Nations: A Response; Kathleen López
PART VI: TRANSCULTURATION
11. Transculturation, Syncretism, and Hibridity; Jossianna Arroyo
12. The Persistence of Racism in Critical Imaginaries on Latin America; Laura Catelli
PART VII: MODERNIDAD
13. Modernity and Modernization: the Geopolitical Relocation of Latin America; Graciela Montaldo
14. Beyond Modernity; Alejandra Laera
PART VIII: NATION
15. The Latin America Nation and its Cultural Inscriptions: Archives of Promise or Lament?; Román de la Campa
16. Multiplicity and its Discontents: A Response to Román de la Campa; Héctor Hoyos
PART IX GENDER
17. Gender/Género in Latin America; Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
18. Gender Travels South: Response to Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes; Montserrat Sagot
PART X: SEXUALITY
19. Queer/Sexualities; Licia Fiol Matta
20. Queer Articulations; Carlos Figari
PART XI. TESTIMONIO
21. Testimonio: The Witness, the Truth and the Inaudible; Ana Forcinito
22. Enunciating Alleged Truths: A Response to Ana Forcinito; Arturo Arias
PART XII. POPULAR CULTURE
23. Lo popular/ Popular Culture: Performing the Borders of Power and Resistance; Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
24. Globalized Digital Popular Cultures: A Response to Ignacio Sánchez Prado; Susan Antebi
Notes
Notes on Contributors
Index

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
is Professor of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, USA. She is author of
From Lack to Excess: 'Minor' Readings of Colonial Latin American Literature
and
Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-colonial Migrations in a Pan Caribbean Context
.

Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui
is Associate Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, USA. He is author of
Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature
and
The Avowal of Difference: Queer Latino American Narratives
.