New Books in Latin American Studies
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Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" (Duke UP, 2019)
81 hours 9 mins; September 22, 2022
On Jorge Luis Borges' "Fictions"
29 mins; September 21, 2022
Kaysha Corinealdi, "Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century" (Duke UP, 2022)
65 hours 2 mins; September 19, 2022
Ana Sabau, "Riot and Rebellion in Mexico: The Making of a Race War Paradigm" (U Texas Press, 2022)
93 hours 21 mins; September 14, 2022
Ellie D. Hernández et al., "Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
38 mins; September 13, 2022
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, "Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile" (Duke UP, 2022)
58 mins; September 12, 2022
Lorgia García Peña, "Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective" (Duke UP, 2022)
53 mins; September 08, 2022
Julia Margaret Zulver, "High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
58 mins; September 08, 2022
Kate Phillips, "Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery" (Luath Press, 2022)
39 mins; August 31, 2022
Jeffrey D. Pugh, "The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security" (Oxford UP, 2021)
53 mins; August 30, 2022
Frederico Freitas, "Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
69 hours 49 mins; August 26, 2022
Paul Adler, "No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
105 hours 20 mins; August 26, 2022
Monica De La Torre, "Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley" (U Washington Press, 2022)
56 mins; August 24, 2022
Roanne Kantor, "South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
53 mins; August 18, 2022
Carmen MartĂ­nez Novo, "Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
71 hours 22 mins; August 18, 2022
Tom Zoellner, "Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2020)
44 mins; August 16, 2022
Made of Corn: How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 2 of 2)
45 mins; August 12, 2022
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Atlantic" (Robinson, 2022)
41 mins; August 12, 2022
Modifying Maize: How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 1 of 2)
55 mins; August 11, 2022
Juan Pablo Scarfi and David M. K. Sheinin, "The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations" (Routledge, 2022)
44 mins; August 03, 2022
Courtney J. Campbell, "Region Out of Place: The Brazilian Northeast and the World, 1924-1968" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
63 hours 6 mins; July 28, 2022
Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara V. Guengerich, "Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
66 hours 31 mins; July 26, 2022
Laura A. Ogden, "Loss and Wonder at the World’s End" (Duke UP, 2021)
62 hours 55 mins; July 15, 2022
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, "Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
50 mins; July 13, 2022
Daniel Silva, "Embodying Modernity: Global Fitness Culture and Building the Brazilian Body" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
41 mins; July 01, 2022
Vanessa Walker, "Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy" (Cornell UP, 2020)
64 hours 37 mins; July 01, 2022
Christina Ramos, "Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment" (UNC Press, 2022)
67 hours 2 mins; July 01, 2022
Sophie Haspeslagh, "Proscribing Peace: How Listing Armed Groups as Terrorists Hurts Negotiations" (Manchester UP, 2021)
54 mins; June 27, 2022
Francesca Lessa, "The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America" (Yale UP, 2022)
68 hours 57 mins; June 24, 2022
Ethnography, Humility, Identity, and the Academy
78 hours 48 mins; June 10, 2022
Moises Lino e Silva, "Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
71 hours 20 mins; June 10, 2022
Lily Pearl Balloffet, "Argentina in the Global Middle East" (Stanford UP, 2020)
71 hours 39 mins; June 09, 2022
Lisa Blackmore and Liliana GĂłmez, "Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art" (Routledge, 2020)
65 hours 35 mins; June 07, 2022
Reighan Gillam, "Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
49 mins; June 07, 2022
Robert Chao Romero, "Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity" (InterVarsity Press, 2020)
64 hours 32 mins; June 03, 2022
Marc Raboy, "Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel" (Oxford UP, 2022)
69 hours 24 mins; June 02, 2022
Moisés Lino e Silva, "Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
50 mins; June 01, 2022
Marcos E. Pérez, "Proletarian Lives: Routines, Identity, and Culture in Contentious Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
62 hours 59 mins; May 31, 2022
Ashley M. Williard, "Engendering Islands: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
47 mins; May 30, 2022
Anjanette Delgado, "Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness" (UP of Florida Press, 2021)
50 mins; May 27, 2022
Diana McCaulay, "Daylight Come" (Peepal Tree Press, 2020)
35 mins; May 24, 2022
Irune del Rio Gabiola, "Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres" (Peter Lang, 2020)
63 hours 7 mins; May 18, 2022
Nicole Charles, "Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados" (Duke UP, 2022)
40 mins; May 10, 2022
Lorena Cuya Gavilano, "Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
68 hours 9 mins; May 10, 2022
Kelly Lytle Hernández, "Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands" (Norton, 2022)
51 mins; May 08, 2022
Sarah Walsh, "The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
71 hours 7 mins; May 05, 2022
JoĂŁo B. Chaves, "The Global Mission of the Jim Crow South: Southern Baptist Missionaries and the Shaping of Latin American Evangelicalism" (Mercer UP, 2022)
104 hours 3 mins; April 28, 2022
Fernanda Melchor and Sophie Hughes, "Paradais" (New Directions, 2022)
72 hours 17 mins; April 27, 2022
Mary Louise Pratt, "Planetary Longings" (Duke UP, 2022)
66 hours 54 mins; April 27, 2022
Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, "The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico" (Duke UP, 2021)
51 mins; April 27, 2022
Jennifer K. Seman, "Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo" (U Texas Press, 2021)
94 hours 59 mins; April 25, 2022
M. Bianet Castellanos, "Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtness in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2020)
58 mins; April 22, 2022
David Nemer, "Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil" (MIT Press, 2022)
41 mins; April 19, 2022
Kelly Bauer, "Negotiating Autonomy: Mapuche Territorial Demands and Chilean Land Policy" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
47 mins; April 18, 2022
MarĂ­a Elena GarcĂ­a, "Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru" (U California Press, 2021)
68 hours 22 mins; April 15, 2022
Anadelia Romo, "Selling Black Brazil: Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia" (U Texas Press, 2022)
64 hours 7 mins; April 13, 2022
Yana Stainova, "Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
65 hours 11 mins; April 13, 2022
Adrian J. Pearce et al., "Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide. A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration" (UCL Press, 2020)
122 hours 52 mins; April 11, 2022
Yveline Alexis, "Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
46 mins; April 11, 2022
Shawn Michael Austin, "Colonial Kinship: GuaranĂ­, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
106 hours 1 min; April 07, 2022
Adrian Shubert, "The Sword of Luchana: Baldomero Espartero and the Making of Modern Spain, 1793–1879" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
53 mins; April 07, 2022
Hugo Ceron-Anaya, "Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico" (Oxford UP, 2019)
48 mins; April 06, 2022
Hilda Lloréns, "Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice" (U of Washington Press, 2021)
66 hours 18 mins; April 05, 2022
Alison Donnell, "Creolized Sexualities: Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
25 mins; March 30, 2022
Ellen Jones, "Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas" (Columbia UP, 2022)
75 hours 59 mins; March 29, 2022
Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, "Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America" (Duke UP, 2020)
48 mins; March 28, 2022
Jeremy Friedman, "Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World" (Harvard UP, 2022)
74 hours 21 mins; March 24, 2022
Slaving Zones in the Modern World
23 mins; March 24, 2022
Rickson Gracie and Peter Maguire, "Breathe: A Life in Flow" (Dey Street, 2021)
103 hours 23 mins; March 24, 2022
Jason De Leon, "The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail" (U California Press, 2015)
72 hours 1 min; March 22, 2022
Tessa Murphy, "The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
86 hours 56 mins; March 16, 2022
Joshua Frens-String, "Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile" (UC Press, 2021)
63 hours 18 mins; March 09, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 1: A Conversation with Miguel Nicolelis
63 hours 46 mins; March 09, 2022
Bjørn Sletto et al., "Radical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America" (UT Press, 2020)
48 mins; March 09, 2022
Albert A. Palacios, "Unlocking the Colonial Archive in Latin America"
56 mins; March 09, 2022
Celia Stahr, "Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
54 mins; March 07, 2022
Rebecca Janzen, "Unholy Trinity: State, Church, and Film in Mexico" (SUNY Press, 2021)
54 mins; February 24, 2022
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, "Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora" (Duke UP, 2021)
75 hours 49 mins; February 23, 2022
Mauro José Caraccioli, "Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire" (U Florida Press, 2021)
56 mins; February 21, 2022
TanalĂ­s Padilla, "Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico" (Duke UP, 2021)
68 hours 34 mins; February 18, 2022
David Alston, "Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
62 hours 13 mins; February 16, 2022
Vânia Penha-Lopes, "The Presidential Elections of Trump and Bolsonaro, Whiteness, and the Nation" (Lexington Books, 2021)
44 mins; February 16, 2022
Manoela Carpenedo, "Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus: Judaizing Evangelicals in Brazil" (Oxford UP, 2021)
65 hours 4 mins; February 14, 2022
Mimi Sheller, "Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2020)
88 hours 11 mins; February 10, 2022
Susie S. Porter, "From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890-1950" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
52 mins; February 08, 2022
Vincent Joos, "Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
60 hours 40 mins; February 04, 2022
Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, "The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts" (Yale UP, 2020)
51 mins; February 02, 2022
Ann M. Schneider, "Amnesty in Brazil: Recompense After Repression, 1895-2010" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
74 hours 20 mins; February 02, 2022
Ada Ferrer, "Cuba: An American History" (Scribner, 2021)
53 mins; February 02, 2022
Jane Lilly LĂłpez, "Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State" (Stanford UP, 2021)
66 hours 46 mins; February 01, 2022
Jennifer Scheper Hughes, "The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas" (NYU Press, 2021)
55 mins; January 31, 2022
Mir Yarfitz, "Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
70 hours 20 mins; January 28, 2022
Juan Manuel del Nido, "Taxis Vs. Uber: Courts, Markets and Technology in Buenos Aires" (Stanford UP, 2021)
61 hours 39 mins; January 25, 2022
Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa and Rodrigo Quijano, "Punk! Las Américas Edition" (Intellect, 2022)
58 mins; January 18, 2022
Laurie R. Lambert, "Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
43 mins; January 06, 2022
Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
128 hours 13 mins; January 05, 2022
Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, "Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2018)
55 mins; January 04, 2022
Sonia Hernández and John Morán González, "Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on the History of the Border" (U Texas Press, 2021)
40 mins; January 04, 2022
Mabel Moraña, "Philosophy and Criticism in Latin America: From Mariátegui to Sloterdijk" (Cambria Press, 2020)
60 hours 17 mins; January 04, 2022
Lynn Stephen, "Stories That Make History: Mexico through Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas" (Duke UP, 2021)
32 mins; December 29, 2021