{"product_id":"habla-9781479802067","title":"Habla!: Speaking Bodies and Dancing Our America","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnder colonial repression and the rationalizing ideals of Enlightenment thought, one practice has long carried the pulse of resistance: dance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHabla!\u003c\/i\u003e explores how the dancing body speaks – how, through movement, sound, and rhythm, Latinx American communities enact forms of knowing and being that \"talk back\" to colonial modernity. Centering the traditions of Puerto Rican bomba, Mexican son jarocho, and the global phenomenon of perreo, Jade Power-Sotomayor reveals how these practices transform the body into a site of worldbuilding, social critique, and survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroducing the concept of \"embodied code-switching\" – the corporeal strategies people use to move across cultural, linguistic, and affective registers – Power-Sotomayor traces how dancing navigates and disrupts the logics of separability, ownership, and extraction that underpin Western colonial thought. From bomba's dialogue between dancer and drummer to perreo's unapologetic assertion of a pleasure and power rooted in interdependence, Habla! shows how these embodied traditions sustain collective life and offer new grammars of relation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough performance, community practice, and activist projects, ¡Habla! demonstrates how the dancing, sounding body continues to generate meaning, connection, and possibility. In its motion – rooted and mobile at once – the dancing body speaks beyond words, carrying forward the histories and futures of Latinx América, and remapping the contours of Our América.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 25 August 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePage count:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Height 229 mm; Width 152 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e New York University Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781479802067\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Jade Power-Sotomayor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50207201624314,"sku":"9781479802067","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/habla-9781479802067","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}