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New Books in Latin American Studies
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Maria L. Quintana, "Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
52 mins; May 12, 2023
Brian Palmer-Rubin, "Evading the Patronage Trap: Interest Representation in Mexico" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
52 mins; May 04, 2023
Mauro Porto, "Mirrors of Whiteness: Media, Middle-Class Resentment, and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
55 mins; May 01, 2023
Nicole von Germeten, "Death in Old Mexico: The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
72 hours 45 mins; April 30, 2023
Katherine Gillen et al., "The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en la Frontera" (ACMRS, 2023)
46 mins; April 30, 2023
Pablo Bradbury, "Liberationist Christianity in Argentina (1930-1983): Faith and Revolution" (Tamesis Books, 2023)
104 hours 47 mins; April 28, 2023
Timothy R. Pauketat, "Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America" (Oxford UP,
46 mins; April 27, 2023
Francy Carranza-Franco, "Demobilisation and Reintegration in Colombia: Building State and Citizenship" (Routledge, 2020)
60 hours 2 mins; April 24, 2023
Joel E. Correia, "Disrupting the PatrĂłn: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay's Chaco" (U California Press, 2023)
55 mins; April 19, 2023
Lorgia García Peña, "Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective" (Duke UP, 2022)
44 mins; April 19, 2023
A. J. Faas, "In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
80 hours 40 mins; April 18, 2023
Karen E. Eccles and Debbie McCollin, "World War II and the Caribbean" (U West Indies Press, 2017)
58 mins; April 17, 2023
Erin McFee and Angelika Rettberg Beil, "Ex-Combatants and Peace Agreement with the FARC-EP in Colombia" (Ediciones Uniandes, 2019)
52 mins; April 15, 2023
CinegogĂ­a: An Open Access Resource for Teaching and Studying Latin American Cinema
56 mins; April 14, 2023
Gwen Burnyeat, "The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy Amid Disinformation in Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
75 hours 43 mins; April 09, 2023
Javier Puente, "The Rural State: Making Comunidades, Campesinos, and Conflict in Peru's Central Sierra" (U Texas Press, 2022)
91 hours 38 mins; April 05, 2023
Rebecca Herman, "Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
41 mins; March 29, 2023
Margaret Chowning, "Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940" (Princeton UP, 2023)
67 hours 18 mins; March 24, 2023
Claudia Brittenham, "Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica" (U Texas Press, 2023)
55 mins; March 24, 2023
Chris Alden and Alvaro Mendez, "China and Latin America: Development, Agency and Geopolitics" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
62 hours 1 min; March 19, 2023
Hernán Flom, "The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
50 mins; March 16, 2023
Alberto GarcĂ­a, "Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico" (U California Press, 2023)
64 hours 57 mins; March 11, 2023
Hilbourne A. Watson, "Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Late Colonial Period" (U The West Indies Press, 2019)
123 hours 34 mins; March 09, 2023
Gonzalo Soltero, "Conspiracy Narratives South of the Border: Bad Hombres Do the Twist" (Routledge, 2022)
56 mins; March 09, 2023
Joan Flores-Villalobos, "The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
68 hours 0 mins; March 06, 2023
Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico's Northern Border, 1930-1950
76 hours 16 mins; March 06, 2023
Lisa M. Johnson and Rosemary A. Joyce, "Materializing Ritual Practices" (U Colorado Press, 2022)
59 mins; March 05, 2023
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, "Decolonizing American Spanish: Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
36 mins; March 04, 2023
Hilbourne A. Watson, "Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Independence Period, 1966-1976" (U West Indies Press, 2020)
102 hours 36 mins; March 04, 2023
Elle Hardy, "Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World" (Hurst, 2022)
46 mins; February 28, 2023
Caroline Dodds Pennock, "On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe" (Knopf, 2023)
59 mins; February 26, 2023
Adrian Fraser, "The 1935 Riots in St Vincent: From Riots to Adult Suffrage" (U West Indies Press, 2016)
140 hours 9 mins; February 25, 2023
Chris Bongie, trans. and ed., "The Colonial System Unveiled by Baron de Vastey" (Liverpool UP, 2014)
99 hours 44 mins; February 21, 2023
Helen Yaffe, "We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World" (Yale UP, 2020)
110 hours 44 mins; February 17, 2023
Freddy Prestol Castillo, "You Can Cross the Massacre on Foot" (Duke UP, 2019)
36 mins; February 17, 2023
Sarah Foss, "On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala" (UNC Press, 2022)
60 hours 38 mins; February 16, 2023
Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez, "When Rains Became Floods: A Child Soldier’s Story" (Duke UP, 2015)
36 mins; February 16, 2023
Suzanne Francis-Brown, "World War II Camps in Jamaica: Refugees, Internees, Prisoners of War" (U West Indies Press, 2022)
105 hours 28 mins; February 12, 2023
Andreas E. Feldmann et al., "The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration" (Routledge, 2022)
66 hours 47 mins; February 09, 2023
Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman, "Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
60 hours 36 mins; February 05, 2023
Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, "Dougla in the Twenty-First Century: Adding to the Mix" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
73 hours 43 mins; February 02, 2023
Nicole von Germeten, "The Enlightened Patrolman: Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
76 hours 30 mins; January 31, 2023
A Left Turn? The Politics of Latin America Today
46 mins; January 30, 2023
Mark A. Schneegurt, "Anthology of Religious Poetry from the Mexican Inquisition Trials of 16th-Century CryptoJews" (2020)
79 hours 7 mins; January 30, 2023
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, "Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War" (Columbia Global Reports, 2022)
62 hours 23 mins; January 28, 2023
The History of Electricity in Mexico
72 hours 25 mins; January 27, 2023
Frank Wolff, "Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund" (Haymarket Books, 2021)
79 hours 37 mins; January 25, 2023
Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing" (U Texas Press, 2022)
75 hours 29 mins; January 24, 2023
Sharon Milagro Marshall, "Tell My Mother I Gone to Cuba: Stories of Early Twentieth-century Migration from Barbados" (U West Indies Press, 2016)
31 mins; January 21, 2023
Helen Anne Curry, "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" (U California Press, 2022)
46 mins; January 21, 2023
Paulina Laura Alberto et al., "Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
52 mins; January 17, 2023
Carwil Bjork-James, "The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia" (U Arizona Press, 2020)
55 mins; January 15, 2023
Tanya Katerí Hernández, "Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality" (Beacon Press, 2022)
58 mins; January 14, 2023
Miguel Valerio, "Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
37 mins; January 14, 2023
Kaiama L. Glover, "A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being" (Duke UP, 2021)
59 mins; January 13, 2023
Clemente Penna, "Urban Economies, Capital, Credit, and Slavery in Rio de Janeiro, 1820-1860" (UFRJ, 2019)
55 mins; January 10, 2023
Christopher Loperena, "The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras" (Stanford UP, 2022)
59 mins; January 09, 2023
Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
88 hours 1 min; January 08, 2023
Carlos Alberto Sánchez, "A Sense of Brutality. Philosophy after Narco-Culture" (Amherst College Press, 2020)
51 mins; January 06, 2023
Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, "She Is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
46 mins; January 03, 2023
Pedro LebrĂłn Ortiz, "The Philosophy of Marronage" (Editora EducaciĂłn Emergente, 2021)
54 mins; December 25, 2022
The Future of Global Trade: A Discussion with Shannon K. O'Neil
44 mins; December 22, 2022
Ariana Huberman. "Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
78 hours 23 mins; December 20, 2022
Sarah Zukerman Daly, "Violent Victors: Why Bloodstained Parties Win Postwar Elections" (Princeton UP, 2022)
58 mins; December 18, 2022
Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)
57 mins; December 16, 2022
Cynthia Radding, "Bountiful Deserts: Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain" (U Arizona Press, 2022)
57 mins; December 16, 2022
Philip Nanton, "Riff: The Shake Keane Story" (Papillote Press, 2022)
42 mins; December 14, 2022
On Gabriel García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
31 mins; December 13, 2022
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes, "Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration" (U Texas Press, 2022)
44 mins; December 10, 2022
Stuart Earle Strange, "Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
93 hours 32 mins; December 10, 2022
Ruti G. Teitel, "Transitional Justice" (Oxford UP, 2000)
58 mins; December 04, 2022
Nadim Bawalsa, "Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948" (Stanford UP, 2022)
79 hours 25 mins; December 04, 2022
Sarah Abel, "Permanent Markers: Race, Ancestry, and the Body After the Genome" (UNC Press, 2021)
64 hours 38 mins; November 29, 2022
Pierre Minn, "Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti" (Cornell UP, 2022)
65 hours 23 mins; November 28, 2022
Erin Alice Cowling, "Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
44 mins; November 21, 2022
Jennifer Eaglin, "Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol" (Oxford UP, 2022)
73 hours 52 mins; November 18, 2022
David McDermott Hughes, "Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity" (Duke UP, 2017)
54 mins; November 16, 2022
Ken Chitwood, "The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean" (Lynn Rienner, 2021)
74 hours 13 mins; November 11, 2022
June Carolyn Erlick, "Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity" (Routledge, 2021)
60 hours 7 mins; November 07, 2022
Aisha Khan, "The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
74 hours 0 mins; November 07, 2022
Alma Zaragoza-Petty, "Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice" (Broadleaf Books, 2022)
60 hours 0 mins; November 02, 2022
Sarah T. Hines, "Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia" (U California Press, 2021)
51 mins; November 02, 2022
Sarah Quesada, "The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
53 mins; November 01, 2022
Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz and Barbara Frey, "Mexico's Human Rights Crisis" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
62 hours 38 mins; October 31, 2022
On Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis' "The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas"
32 mins; October 24, 2022
4.4 “A short, sharp punch to the face”: José Revueltas’ The Hole (El Apando) with Alia Trabucco Zerán and Sophie Hughes.
52 mins; October 20, 2022
Suzana Sawyer, "The Small Matter of Suing Chevron" (Duke UP, 2022)
86 hours 11 mins; October 12, 2022
Technocracy Now! Part 2: Exploring Technocracy through Cybernetics
67 hours 28 mins; October 10, 2022
Margarita Fajardo, "The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era" (Harvard UP, 2021)
63 hours 20 mins; October 07, 2022
René Provost, "Rebel Courts: The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents" (Oxford UP, 2021)
89 hours 8 mins; October 06, 2022
Ricardo LĂłpez-Pedreros, "The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies" (Routledge, 2022)
43 mins; October 05, 2022
Maria Berbara, "Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2022)
49 mins; September 30, 2022
Aviva Ben-Ur, "Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
53 mins; September 30, 2022
Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and MĂ©rida M. RĂşa, "Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader" (NYU Press, 2021)
71 hours 57 mins; September 26, 2022
Peter J. Kalliney, "The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature" (Princeton UP, 2022)
52 mins; September 26, 2022
NBN Classic: Niall Geraghty, "The Polyphonic Machine: Capitalism, Political Violence, and Resistance in Contemporary Argentine Literature" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
36 mins; September 25, 2022
NBN Classic: M. L. Mitma and J. P. Heilman, "Now Peru is Mine: The Life and Times of a Campesino Activist" (Duke UP, 2016)
51 mins; September 24, 2022
Karin Rosemblatt, "The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950" (UNC Press, 2018)
54 mins; September 23, 2022
Paula Serafini, "Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, And (Post)Extractivism" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
42 mins; September 22, 2022
Joshua Savala, "Beyond Patriotic Phobias: Connections, Cooperation, and Solidarity in the Peruvian-Chilean Pacific World" (U California Press, 2022)
61 hours 27 mins; September 22, 2022
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