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.

Moving to a new place : the archaeological study of migration in the ancient Andes /Donna J. Nash -- "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 / Olaf Katmeier -- In search of the New World : (re)inventing Bahia / Ines Linke -- Rousseau and Emile in Karen Tei Yamashita's Brazil-Maru : the intertexts of colonies, utopia, and freedom / Ruth Y. Hsu -- Toward an inter-American study of African transculturalization in Native America / Robert Keith Collins -- Colonial and decolonial thinking : race discourses in literatures of the Americas / Josef Rabb -- El mestizaje como trauma : sexualidad y violencia en los discursos supra)nacionales en Sudamérica en el siglo XIX / Olga Ries -- Montalvo el disidente y Mera el resistente : discursos críticos sobre religión y política en el Ecuador, 1860-1890 / Rocío Rosero Jácome -- The Virgin and the observatory : astronomy, modernity, and the U.S. Mills Expedition in Chile / Bárbara Silva -- Native spirituality and cultural development in Adolph Bandelier's ethnological research in the U.S. Southwest / Matthew N. Johnston -- Alexandra Fuller's Americas : emerging from coloniality / Melissa Knox -- Rupturas en la colonialidad : la transición agroecológica en la Zona de la Mata de Pernambuco, Brasil / Antonielle Pinheiro da Cunha -- Negociación del espacio legítimo en comunidades indígenas del Área Metropolitana de Asunción / Marcelo Bogado -- Visiones de adentro y de afuera : la situación del Campamento Purhépecha en Zapopan / Ulises Zarazúa Villaseñor -- Movimiento indio, elites indigenas y literaturas amerindias / Martín Lienhard -- Las raíces de la larga duración en las resistencias indígenas colombianas : desafiando la Hidra, tejiendo las autonomías / Malely Linares Sanchez -- Andean music bands abroad : colonizing the flneur of the West / Dorothea Gail -- Decolonizing the image of 'La Malinche' : the transculturation of a colonial Mexican icon to U.S. Latino culture via twenty-first century Latino art / Rebecca Elena Berger -- The two Guadalupes : sacred folk narratives and cultural reformatting in the colonization/decolonization project of New Spain / María Herrera-Sobek -- Race, place, and the decolonial imaginary / George Lipsitz.