Global CASA and LACASA: Current Offerings and Backlist, 2012
Global CASA and LACASA Books announces its second round of publications, including two texts from its new series of Testmonio, Crónica and Documents:
_____ Giros culturales en la marea rosa de América Latina. Giros culturales en la marea rosa de América Latina. Developed under the auspices of the Section on Culture, Politics and Power of the Latin American Studies Association, this latest book in LACASA's series on Cultural Studies and Globalization in Latin America, explores relations between politics and cultural processes in a time when several left governments have emerged in Central and South America. Edited by Luis Ochoa Bilbao (BUAP, Pueblo Mexico) and Marc Zimmerman (U. of Houston), this volume includes articles by Benjamin Arditi, Jesús Martín Barbero, John Beverley, Ricardo Forster, the late Eduardo Rosenzvaig and other scholars dealing with Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Mexico. (View detailed description in Spanish)
ISBN: 978-1-4675-2777-4452499
Retail Price: $24.95; Special LACASA friend price: $18.95--plus s/h ($4.00 in USA).
_____ El despertar de las comunidades afro-colombianas
Co-publication with the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (CIS). Interviews of five Afro-Colombian leaders) introduced and edited by María-Inés Martínez (U. of Manitoba), with a presentation by CIS director Ángel Quintero Rivera. (see description ).
ISBN: 978-1-4507-5911-3. Retails for $24.95.
Special LACASA friend price: $16.95, plus s/h ($4.00 en USA).
_____ José Gamaliel González, Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago
(Autobiography of a Chicago Mexican artist and activist, published by U. of Illinois Press
(see description at www.go.illinois.edu/f10gonzalez or www.press.uillinois.edul).
Retails for $30. Special LACASA friend price: $24.00, plus s/h ($4.00 en USA).
_____ Marc Zimmerman, Defending their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans, published by the U. of Illinois Press
(see description at http://www.go.illinois.edu/F11zimmerman). Hardcover only.
Retails for $55.00. Special LACASA friend price: $32.00 plus $4.00 s/h, along with a complementary copy of your choice from the Global CASA/LACASA backlist $2.00 s/h in USA)
_____Las ciudades latinoamericanas en el nuevo [des]orden mundial. 
Available once again: Ciudades y globalización, con cuatro artículos sobre La Ciudad de México. Artículos por Saskia Sassen, Néstor García Canclini, Jesús Martín Barbero, etc. Siglo XXI, México. ISBN 968-23-2453-X. Retails for 24.99. Special LACASA friend price: $18.00, plus s/h ($4.00 en USA). View detailed description »
Backlist of Global CASA/ LACASA Publications Now Available @ $10.00 or @$5.00 for orders of 5 or more volumes. Plus $3.00 s/h for one book or $2.00 s/h per book for 2 or more.
Please cut and paste your order into a file or email space, indicate the books you wish and send your order to: mzimmerman@uh.edu
(access order form below).
Collective Volumes on Latin American Cultural Studies and Globalization
In Spanish
_____ Orbis/Urbis Latino: Los “Hispanos” en las ciudades de los Estados Unidos.
A collection showing how urban processes transform Latinos and how Latinos “latinize” the cities. John Beverley, Agustín Laó-Montes, Armando Silva, etc. ISBN 978-1-60643-705-6.
_____ Ir y venir: Procesos transnacionales entre América Latina y el norte
Migration and cultural studies come together for a seminal collection that includes work by Sarah Mahler, John Gledhill, Arturo Arias, Abril Trigo, Carlos Monsiváis, etc. ISBN 0- 9767019-5-2.
_____ Estudios culturales centroamericanos en el nuevo milenio.
A pioneer collection including key contemporary themes. With Arturo Arias, John Beverley, Ileana Rodríguez, and many young specialists in the field. Co-pub. With U. of Costa Rica. ISBN 0-9767019-0.
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_____ Estudios culturales y cuestiones globales: Latinoamérica en la coyuntura transnacional.
Post- 9/11 perspectives on the field— articles by Daniel Mato, Abril Trigo, Santiago Castro-Gómez, Jeffrey Browitt, Anadeli Bencomo, etc. ISBN 956- 7003-97-1.
In English
_____ New World [Dis]Orders & Peripheral Strains. 
Essays by Hugo Achugar, Arturo Arias, Elizam Escobar, Ileana Rodríguez, the editors and others on postmodernity and globalization. ISBN: 1-877636-19-9. $12.00
Marc Zimmerman Series in Pre-Post and Post Positions
In Spanish
_____ América Latina en el nuevo [des]orden mundial.
Eight essays on globalization and transnacional processes--questions about inmigration, cities, borders, universities, Euro-Latin American relations and 9/11. ISBN: 0-9767019-3-6.
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_____ El momento fugaz: Posiciones posmodernas en el mundo Latinoamericano.
Postmodern processes in Latin America, with essays on Marxism, literature, globalization and the future. ISBN 0-9767019-7-9.
View detailed description »
In English
_____ Mixing the Personal and Professional: Essays, Days and Ways Left along the Way. 
Essays on structuralism, New Left theory, Central American collage, Borders and other issues tracing an intellectual’s trajectory from the 1970s to the present. ISBN 0- 9767019-9-5.
_____ South to North: Framing Latin and Central American, Caribbean and Latino Literatures. 
Essays framing the studies of the literatures in question, exploring their unity and differentials. ISBN 0-9767019-3-6.
_____ Lucien Goldmann, Genetic Structuralism and Cultural Creation in the Capitalist World. 
A book tracing major themes in the work of a major sociologist of philosophy, culture and literature. ISBN 0-9767019-1- X.
_____ Politics & Modernity/ Europe and Latin America. 
Art and politics in de Sade and Lautréamont, the Surrealist writers, Brecht and Picasso; transatlantic connections and transculturation processes in writers such as Borges, Fuentes, Darío, Cardoza y Aragón, Cardenal, Dalton, and Claribel Alegría. ISBN: 0-9767019-8-7.
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_____ Pre-Post Positions: Essays on Structures & History, Literary Theory and Aesthetics.
Marxism, structuralism, structural historicism, art and politics in a world of commodity production. ISBN: 0-9767019- 2-8.
Plus
_____ Stores of Winter. 
Short fiction by Marc Zimmerman. Stories of childhood and notso- innocents abroad in Spain and Italy—plus a Jewish American tragic-comedy. ISBN 0- 9767019-4-4.
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