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Amelia Frank-Vitale, "Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds" (U California Press, 2026)

38 mins; April 02, 2026

Kristin Ciupa, "The Political Economy of Oil in Venezuela: Class Conflict, the State, and the World Market" (Brill, 2026)

37 mins; March 29, 2026

Why Did Langston Hughes's "Troubled Lands" Go Unpublished for Nearly a Century?: A Conversation with Ricardo Wilson

48 mins; March 27, 2026

Gijs Kruijtzer, "Justifying Transgression: Muslims, Christians, and the Law - 1200 to 1700" (de Gruyter, 2023)

58 mins; March 25, 2026

Lucia Motolinia, "Unity through Particularism: How Electoral Reforms Influence Parties and Legislative Behavior" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

28 mins; March 24, 2026

Ken Chitwood, "Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism Among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam" (U Texas Press, 2025)

69 hours 53 mins; March 23, 2026

Katharine Gerbner, "Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2025)

57 mins; March 22, 2026

Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez, "The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire" (Duke UP, 2025)

54 mins; March 21, 2026

Gabrielle Oliveira, "Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Children’s Education, and Dreams for a Better Life" (Stanford UP, 2025)

27 mins; March 21, 2026

Maria A. Sanchez, "Deference and Divergence in Regional Human Rights Courts" (Cornell UP, 2026)

51 mins; March 20, 2026

Piergiorgio Di Giminiani et al. eds., "The Futures of Reparations in Latin America: Imagination, Translation, and Belonging" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

73 hours 39 mins; March 20, 2026

Anne W. Johnson, "Mexico in Space: From La Raza Cósmica to the Space Race" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

52 mins; March 12, 2026

Selina Nwulu, "Black Climates: Notes on Race, Our Environment, and Visions for Equitable Futures" (Chatto & Windus, 2025)

48 mins; March 11, 2026

Pablo Zavala, "Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917-1968" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

65 hours 9 mins; March 10, 2026

Karen Dubinsky, "Strangely, Friends: A History of Cuban-Canadian Encounters" (Between the Lines, 2025)

43 mins; March 08, 2026

Paul Gillingham, "Mexico: A 500-Year History" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2025)

75 hours 33 mins; March 07, 2026

Maurice Rafael Magaña, "Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico" (U California Press, 2020)

64 hours 1 min; March 01, 2026

Lillian Guerra, "Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

95 hours 56 mins; February 22, 2026

Darién J. Davis, "'Black Orpheus' and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

55 mins; February 18, 2026

David M. Henkin, "Out of the Ballpark: How to Think about Baseball" (Oxford UP, 2026)

63 hours 14 mins; February 18, 2026

Javiera Barandiaran, "Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium" (MIT Press, 2026)

54 mins; February 13, 2026

The Power of the State: Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, and Minneapolis

52 mins; February 12, 2026

Samuel Holley-Kline, "In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico" (U Nebraska Press, 2025)

45 mins; February 03, 2026

Allison Caine, "Restless Ecologies: Climate Change and Socioecological Futures in the Peruvian Highlands" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

49 mins; February 02, 2026

Luis Rechani Agrait, "My Excellency: Comedy in Three Acts" (Swan Isle Press, 2025)

46 mins; January 30, 2026

Julia H. Meszaros, "Economies of Gender: Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women’s Labor" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

40 mins; January 12, 2026

Danielle Alesi, "Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Consuming Empire, 1492-1700" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)

45 mins; January 09, 2026

Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism with Thea Riofrancos

73 hours 52 mins; January 06, 2026

Karma F. Frierson, "Local Color: Reckoning with Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz" (U California Press, 2025)

49 mins; December 23, 2025

Irvin Ibargüen, "Caught in the Current: Mexico's Struggle to Regulate Emigration, 1940-1980" (UNC Press, 2025)

53 mins; December 21, 2025

Leo R. Chavez, "The Latino Threat: How Alarmist Rhetoric Misrepresents Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation" (Stanford UP, 2025)

73 hours 42 mins; December 20, 2025

Theresa Delgadillo, "Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas" (U Michigan Press, 2024)

55 mins; December 02, 2025

Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane

34 mins; December 01, 2025

Renata Keller, "The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War" (UNC Press, 2025)

37 mins; November 25, 2025

Mila Burns, "Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War" (UNC Press, 2025)

46 mins; November 13, 2025

Vania Smith-Oka, "Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

49 mins; November 08, 2025

James Scorer, "Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame" (U Texas Press, 2024)

41 mins; November 04, 2025

Pablo Meninato and Gregory Marinic, "Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America" (Routledge, 2025)

77 hours 22 mins; October 31, 2025

Democratic Dialogues: Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries

42 mins; October 28, 2025

Rick A López, "Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

50 mins; October 28, 2025

Daniel B. Rood, "The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean" (Oxford UP, 2020)

41 mins; October 27, 2025

Javier Wallace, "Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams" (Duke UP, 2025)

66 hours 41 mins; October 26, 2025

Aileen Teague, "Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969-2000" (Oxford UP, 2025)

55 mins; October 22, 2025

Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

65 hours 50 mins; October 19, 2025

Ada Ferrer, "Cuba: An American History" (Scribner, 2021)

53 mins; October 19, 2025

Luis L. Schenoni, "Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

61 hours 30 mins; October 02, 2025

Mary E. Hicks, "Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2025)

66 hours 43 mins; September 26, 2025

Jacinto Cuvi, "The Edge of the Law: Street Vendors and the Erosion of Citizenship in São Paulo" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

49 mins; September 24, 2025

Karen Robert, "Driving Terror: Labor, Violence, and Justice in Cold War Argentina" (U New Mexico Press, 2025)

64 hours 55 mins; September 21, 2025

Susan M. Rigdon, "Oscar Lewis in Cuba: La Partida Final" (Berghahn Books, 2024)

67 hours 48 mins; September 12, 2025

Aliyah Khan, "Far From Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

45 mins; August 31, 2025

Brian A. Stauffer, "Victory on Earth or in Heaven: Mexico’s Religionero Rebellion" (U New Mexico Press, 2019)

62 hours 15 mins; August 31, 2025

Philis Barragán-Goetz, "Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas" (U Texas Press, 2020)

52 mins; August 28, 2025

Victoria Basualdo et al., "Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America: A Transnational History of Profits and Repression" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

50 mins; August 27, 2025

Disco's "Latin Tinge"

61 hours 2 mins; August 19, 2025

Chile’s Growing Interests in China

27 mins; August 19, 2025

David Theo Goldberg, "The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism" (Polity Press, 2023)

75 hours 23 mins; August 14, 2025

Alan McPherson, "Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet's Terror State to Justice" (UNC Press, 2019)

68 hours 42 mins; August 09, 2025

César Brioso, "Last Seasons in Havana: The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball In Cuba" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)

42 mins; August 04, 2025

Dan-el Padilla Peralta, "Classicism and Other Phobias" (Princeton UP, 2025)

50 mins; July 30, 2025

Daniel Morales, "Between Here and There: The Political Economy of Transnational Mexican Migration, 1900-1942" (Oxford UP, 2024)

60 hours 46 mins; July 30, 2025

Teo Ballvé, "The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia" (Cornell UP, 2020)

41 mins; July 26, 2025

Haley Cohen Gilliland, "A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)

50 mins; July 16, 2025

Jürgen Buchenau and David S. Dalton, "Anti-Catholicism in the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1940" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)

62 hours 36 mins; July 11, 2025

Laurie Denyer Willis, "Go with God: Political Exhaustion and Evangelical Possibility in Suburban Brazil" (U California Press, 2023)

47 mins; July 11, 2025

Siri Schwabe, "Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile" (Cornell UP, 2023)

49 mins; July 09, 2025

Michael Amoruso, "Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil" (UNC Press, 2025)

69 hours 0 mins; July 06, 2025

Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (U of California Press, 2025)

51 mins; July 04, 2025

Elena Jackson Albarran, "Good Neighbor Empires: Children and Cultural Capital in the Americas" (Brill, 2024)

39 mins; June 26, 2025

Ana Hebra Flaster, "Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town" (She Writes Press, 2025)

59 mins; June 16, 2025

Fernando Pérez-Montesinos, "Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands" (U Texas Press, 2025)

71 hours 56 mins; June 07, 2025

Lina Pinto-García, "Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

60 hours 34 mins; May 31, 2025

Maya Mayblin "Vote of Faith: Democracy, Desire, and the Turbulent Lives of Priest Politicians" (Fordham UP, 2024)

79 hours 46 mins; May 30, 2025

M. Myrta Leslie Santana, Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

56 mins; May 20, 2025

Andrew Ofstehage, "Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado" (Cornell UP, 2025)

44 mins; May 19, 2025

Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Diaz, "Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)

46 mins; May 16, 2025

Maron E. Greenleaf, "Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon" (Duke UP, 2024)

47 mins; May 10, 2025

William Jennings, "Dibia's World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation" (Liverpool UP, 2023)

47 mins; May 10, 2025

Stephanie Schmidt, "Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain: Missionary Narratives, Nahua Perspectives" (U Texas Press, 2025)

49 mins; May 06, 2025

Diana Graizbord, "Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2024)

50 mins; May 02, 2025

Television, Translation, and Algorithms on Netflix

53 mins; April 28, 2025

Lorna Gibb, "Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages" (Princeton UP, 2025)

39 mins; April 26, 2025

Daniel A. Rodriguez, "The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana" (U North Carolina Press, 2020)

51 mins; April 20, 2025

Enrique C. Ochoa, "México Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

67 hours 28 mins; April 19, 2025

María de Los Ángeles Picone, "Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina" (UNC Press, 2025)

65 hours 53 mins; April 16, 2025

Engage and Evade in 2025: Asad L. Asad on Latino Immigrants in America

51 mins; April 12, 2025

Ieva Jusionyte on American Guns in Mexico: Exit Wounds (EF, JP)

56 mins; April 03, 2025

Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy

60 hours 10 mins; April 01, 2025

Vanessa Freije, "Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico" (Duke UP, 2020)

62 hours 35 mins; March 30, 2025

Amy Cox Hall, "The Taste of Nostalgia: Women, Race, and Culinary Longing in Peru" (U Texas Press, 2025)

49 mins; March 21, 2025

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, "The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It" (Basic Books, 2024)

62 hours 13 mins; March 19, 2025

Coup Attempts and Democratic Resistance: Lessons from Brazil

35 mins; March 08, 2025

Vera Tiesler, "Ancient Maya Teeth: Dental Modification, Cosmology, and Social Identity in Mesoamerica" (U Texas Press, 2024)

45 mins; March 05, 2025

Rebecca Janzen, "Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)

56 mins; March 05, 2025

Aliyah Khan on the Muslim Caribbean

51 mins; February 28, 2025

Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

55 mins; February 19, 2025

Luiz Valério P. Trindade, "Hate Speech and Abusive Behaviour on Social Media: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" (Vernon Press, 2024)

47 mins; February 15, 2025

Magnus Course, "Three Ways to Fail: Journeys Through Mapuche Chile" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

73 hours 52 mins; February 13, 2025

Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra

64 hours 44 mins; February 06, 2025

Greg Childs on Seditious Conspiracy (EF, JP)

33 mins; January 23, 2025

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