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New Books in Latin American Studies
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Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin. "Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum" (NYU Press, 2024)
39 mins; January 20, 2025
Andrew Laird, "Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico" (Oxford UP, 2024)
41 mins; January 18, 2025
Byron Ellsworth Hamann, "The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781–1844" (Getty, 2022)
50 mins; January 18, 2025
Victor M. Valle, "The Poetics of Fire: Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands" (U New Mexico Press, 2023)
78 hours 25 mins; January 17, 2025
Benjamin H. Bradlow, "Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in SĂŁo Paulo and Johannesburg" (Princeton UP, 2024)
49 mins; January 13, 2025
Andrew Gomez, "Constructing Cuban America: Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945" (U Texas Press, 2024)
44 mins; January 13, 2025
Jorge Duany, "Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford UP, 2024)
82 hours 23 mins; January 12, 2025
Edward Jones Corredera, "Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America" (Oxford UP, 2024)
46 mins; January 10, 2025
Alex Cuadros, "When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon" (Grand Central Publishing, 2024)
27 mins; January 08, 2025
Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" (Faber and Faber, 2020)
42 mins; January 07, 2025
Theresa Keeley, "Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America" (Cornell UP, 2020)
44 mins; January 06, 2025
Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019)
66 hours 2 mins; January 04, 2025
Benjamin T. Smith, "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
44 mins; January 03, 2025
Randy M. Browne, "The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
64 hours 25 mins; December 31, 2024
Matthew Chin, "Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2024)
58 mins; December 22, 2024
Ege Selin Islekel, "Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
63 hours 44 mins; December 20, 2024
Ana Lucia Araujo, "Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
71 hours 23 mins; December 12, 2024
Elyse Ona Singer, "Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2022)
48 mins; December 06, 2024
Maria Angela Diaz, "A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
49 mins; November 30, 2024
Without Parents or Papers: A Discussion with Stephanie L. Canizales
43 mins; November 21, 2024
Roxani Krystalli, "Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question" (Oxford UP, 2024)
58 mins; November 11, 2024
Sharonah Esther Fredrick, "An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
56 mins; November 10, 2024
Melissa Teixeira, "A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal" (Princeton UP, 2024)
66 hours 5 mins; November 05, 2024
Eric Helleiner, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History" (Cornell UP, 2021)
50 mins; October 29, 2024
Nicolas Delsol, "Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study" (UP of Florida, 2024)
57 mins; October 28, 2024
Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration
64 hours 56 mins; October 17, 2024
Dan La Botz, "Riding with the Revolution: The American Left in the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1925" (Brill, 2024)
67 hours 45 mins; October 15, 2024
Juan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
51 mins; October 07, 2024
Transnational Communicative Care
50 mins; October 06, 2024
Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
56 mins; September 30, 2024
Estelle Tarica, "Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America" (SUNY Press, 2022)
63 hours 59 mins; September 29, 2024
Alessandra Russo, "A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600" (Penn State UP, 2024)
61 hours 5 mins; September 26, 2024
Andreas E. Feldmann, "Repertoires of Terrorism: Organizational Identity and Violence in Colombia's Civil War" (Columbia UP, 2024)
40 mins; September 22, 2024
Caree A. Banton, "More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
84 hours 8 mins; September 21, 2024
Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions
66 hours 46 mins; September 19, 2024
Will Grant, "Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
55 mins; September 17, 2024
Jason Ramsey, "Reckoning with Change in Yucatán: Histories of Care and Threat on a Former Hacienda" (Routledge, 2023)
92 hours 40 mins; September 17, 2024
Aviad Moreno, "Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community" (Indiana UP, 2024)
59 mins; September 14, 2024
Jennifer L. Lambe, "The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2024)
58 mins; September 13, 2024
Jennifer Domino Rudolph, "Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
63 hours 25 mins; September 10, 2024
Aaron M. Hyman, "Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America" (Getty, 2021)
58 mins; September 03, 2024
Javier Muñoz-Díaz et al., "Indigenous Materials in Libraries and the Curriculum: Latin American and Latinx Sources" (Routledge, 2024)
91 hours 34 mins; September 01, 2024
Christine Folch, "The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
33 mins; September 01, 2024
Jennifer Ponce de LeĂłn, "Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War" (Duke UP, 2021)
63 hours 52 mins; August 23, 2024
Gregory Makoff, "Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
57 mins; August 20, 2024
Stephanie L Canizales, "Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States" (U California Press, 2024)
62 hours 50 mins; August 18, 2024
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "Haitian History: New Perspectives" (Routledge, 2012)
50 mins; August 17, 2024
Claudio Lomnitz, "Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico" (Duke UP, 2024)
111 hours 14 mins; August 15, 2024
Jaclyn Sumner, "Indigenous Autocracy: Power, Race, and Resources in Porfirian Tlaxcala, Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2023)
78 hours 0 mins; August 14, 2024
Frederick Luis Aldama, "Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities" (U Arizona Press, 2020)
35 mins; August 09, 2024
David M. K. Sheinin and David S. Koffman, "Promised Lands North and South: Jewish Canada and Jewish Argentina in Conversation" (Brill, 2024)
63 hours 45 mins; August 03, 2024
Jane-Marie Collins, "Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
77 hours 6 mins; August 01, 2024
Sarah Osten, "The Mexican Revolution's Wake: The Making of a Political System, 1920–1929" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
66 hours 33 mins; July 23, 2024
A. Ricardo LĂłpez-Pedreros and Lina Britto, "Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s" (Routledge, 2024)
52 mins; July 22, 2024
Robert Weis, "For Christ and Country: Militant Catholic Youth in Post-Revolutionary Mexico" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
72 hours 49 mins; July 19, 2024
Mónica A. Jiménez, "Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico" (UNC Press, 2024)
84 hours 14 mins; July 14, 2024
The (ir)Rational Priests: On Ignacio MartĂ­n-BarĂł and Liberation Psychology
52 mins; July 11, 2024
Maya Pagni Barak, "The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial" (NYU Press, 2023)
49 mins; July 11, 2024
Angela Garcia, "The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos" (FSG, 2024)
50 mins; July 09, 2024
Jurgen Buchenau and Timothy Henderson, "The Mexican Revolution: A Documentary History" (Hackett, 2022)
68 hours 14 mins; July 08, 2024
Elizabeth Aislinn O'Brien, "Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940" (UNC Press, 2023)
53 mins; July 05, 2024
Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, "In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South" (Stanford UP, 2023)
63 hours 14 mins; July 04, 2024
John Soluri, "Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia" (UNC Press, 2024)
79 hours 25 mins; July 03, 2024
Oneka LaBennett, "Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond" (NYU Press, 2024)
53 mins; July 03, 2024
Faith Smith, "Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century" (Duke UP, 2023)
64 hours 31 mins; July 02, 2024
Christina M. GarcĂ­a, "Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking" (U Florida Press, 2024)
66 hours 34 mins; June 28, 2024
Matthew Goldmark, "Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
39 mins; June 28, 2024
Paula S. De Vos, "Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
70 hours 55 mins; June 23, 2024
Keja L. Valens, "Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
64 hours 40 mins; June 22, 2024
John Soluri, "Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States" (U Texas Press, 2021)
74 hours 22 mins; June 16, 2024
Laura GĂłmez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020)
63 hours 24 mins; June 11, 2024
Amy E. Wright, "Serial Mexico: Storytelling Across Media, from Nationhood to Now" (Vanderbilt UP, 2023)
77 hours 17 mins; June 11, 2024
MĂłnica M. Salas Landa, "Visible Ruins: The Politics of Perception and the Legacies of Mexico's Revolution" (U Texas Press, 2024)
52 mins; June 09, 2024
Vince Brown, Caribbean Vectors (EF, JP)
45 mins; June 06, 2024
Vanessa Walker, "Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy" (Cornell UP, 2020)
64 hours 37 mins; May 27, 2024
Benjamin Bryce and David M. K. Sheinin, "Race and Transnationalism in the Americas" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
39 mins; May 22, 2024
Adriana Chira, "Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
40 mins; May 17, 2024
Maria Cristina Garcia, "State of Disaster: The Failure of U. S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change" (UNC Press, 2022)
50 mins; May 12, 2024
Jaime M. Pensado, "Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico" (U California Press, 2023)
62 hours 51 mins; May 12, 2024
Kate Maclean, "Cash, Clothes, and Construction: Rethinking Value in Bolivia's Pluri-economy" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
61 hours 22 mins; May 11, 2024
Julia G. Young, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War" (Oxford UP, 2019)
52 mins; May 06, 2024
Mateo JarquĂ­n, "The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History" (UNC Press, 2024)
33 mins; May 04, 2024
Andil Gosine, "Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean" (Duke UP, 2021)
64 hours 22 mins; April 29, 2024
Tabea Alexa Linhard, "Unexpected Routes: Refugee Writers in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2023)
55 mins; April 26, 2024
Juliet B. Wiersema, "The History of a Periphery: Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific Lowlands" (U Texas Press, 2024)
56 mins; April 26, 2024
Héctor Beltrán, "Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands" (Princeton UP, 2023)
29 mins; April 21, 2024
Diana Leon-Boys, "Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
61 hours 18 mins; April 19, 2024
Nathanial Gardner, "The Study of Photography in Latin America: Critical Insights and Methodological Approaches" (U New Mexico Press, 2023)
41 mins; April 18, 2024
Lorenza B. Fontana, "Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
62 hours 22 mins; April 18, 2024
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, "Puerto Rico: A National History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
44 mins; April 16, 2024
Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo, "How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History" (Reaktion, 2024)
61 hours 59 mins; April 16, 2024
Ieva Jusionyte, "Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border" (U California Press, 2024)
56 mins; April 15, 2024
Jeremy Black, "The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History" (Routledge, 2015)
41 mins; April 14, 2024
Brooke Larson, "The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia" (Duke UP, 2023)
71 hours 44 mins; April 11, 2024
Gustavo Guzmán, "Attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jews: From Acceptable Undesirables to Respected Businessmen" (Brill, 2022)
105 hours 56 mins; April 07, 2024
Marc Edelman, "Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Social Movements and Agrarian Change" (Cornell UP, 2024)
56 mins; April 06, 2024
Mauricio Fernando Castro, "Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
71 hours 19 mins; April 05, 2024
José Tenorio, "School Food Politics in Mexico: The Corporatization of Obesity and Healthy Eating Policies" (Routledge, 2023)
60 hours 55 mins; March 30, 2024
Denise Kripper, "Narratives of Mistranslation: Fictional Translators in Latin American Literature" (Routledge, 2023)
37 mins; March 25, 2024
Cristina Rocha, "Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities" (Oxford UP, 2024)
64 hours 13 mins; March 24, 2024
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