New Books in Latin American Studies
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Rachel V. González, "Quinceañera Style: Social ...
A quinceañera is a traditional fifteenth birthday celebration for young women (though in contemporary times, it can also be for young men) in many Latinx communities...
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Jack Santino, "Public Performances: Studies in ...
Santino offers a deep and wide-ranging exploration of relationships among genres of public performance and of the underlying political motivations they share...
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Jean Jackson, "Managing Multiculturalism: Indig...
Jean Jackson narrates her remarkable journey as an anthropologist in Colombia for over 50 years.,.
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Thea Riofrancos, "Resource Radicals: From Petro...
Riofrancos examines the deeper questions for democratic theory at stake in conflicts over resource extraction...
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Frederick Luis Aldama, "Decolonizing Latinx Mas...
An early wave of research helped make visible the complex dynamics of sexuality and gender norms in Latino life, but a new generation of scholars is bringing renewed energy and curiosity to this field of inquiry...
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Mark Santiago, "A Bad Peace and A Good War: Spa...
In August 1795, Apaches wiped out two Spanish patrols In the desert borderlands of the what is today the American Southwest and Mexican north....
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Isabella Cosse, "Mafalda: A Social And Politica...
Cosse offers the definitive account of the most famous comic from Latin America, the Argentine strip Mafalda (1964-1973)....
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Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, "Vortex of Violence: Ly...
Kloppe-Santamaría examines the history of violence enacted by groups against alleged transgressors who claimed to bring justice while acting beyond the rule of law...
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Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro a...
Hall colorfully details an extraordinary visit by Fidel Castro to New York in the Autumn of 1960 for the opening of the UN General Assembly...
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João Costa Vargas, "The Denial of Antiblackness...
An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society.
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Philis Barragán-Goetz, "Reading, Writing, and R...
Barragán-Goetz argues that through cultural negotiation, escuelitas (community schools) shaped Mexican American identity and civil rights activism in the late 19th and early 20th century...
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Ananya Chakravarti, "The Empire of Apostles" (O...
Chakravarti recovers the religious roots of Europe's first global order, by tracing the evolution of a religious vision of empire through the lives of Jesuits working in the missions of early modern Brazil and India...
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José Alamillo, "Deportes: The Making of a Sport...
Alamillo illustrates how sports intersect in the making of a Latina/o identity, civil rights activities, and community...
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David Tavárez, "Words and Worlds Turned Around:...
Tavarez and his colleagues tackle the big questions of the Christianization of Mexico after the Spanish Conquest and using sources in several indigenous languages...
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Natalia Milanesio, "¡Destape! Sex, Democracy, a...
With the return to democracy in 1983, Argentines experienced new freedoms, including sexual freedoms...
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Greg Beckett, "There is No More Haiti: Between ...
Beckett offers an examination of “crisis” in Haiti, and pushes back against the widespread racist idea that Haiti is inherently lawless by showing the ongoing production of disorder, the scripting of crisis, and the concatenation of disaster...
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Juan Pablo Scarfi, "The Hidden History of Inter...
Scarfi shows the central role of a coterie of elite Latin American jurists and intellectuals in constructing a Pan-American inflected conception of international law...
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Paulo Drinot, "The Sexual Question: A History o...
Drinot studies the interplay of sexuality, society, and the state in Peru in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
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Benjamin T. Smith, "The Mexican Press and Civil...
Mexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expression...
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Katherine Zien, "Sovereign Acts: Performing Rac...
Zien examines the ways politicians, activists, artists, and residents performed and interpreted sovereignty in the Canal Zone...
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Elizabeth Shesko, "Conscript Nation: Coercion a...
Shesko an intimate and rich history of the militarization of Bolivia over the course of the twentieth century through the lives of the men conscripted to serve...
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Raluca Soreanu, "Working-through Collective Wou...
Soreanu formulates a theory of collective trauma, drawing on the work of Sándor Ferenczi...
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Luz María Hernández Sáenz, "Carving a Niche: Th...
Sáenz follows the trajectory of physicians in their quest for the professionalization of medicine in Mexico...
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Kregg Hetherington, "The Government of Beans: R...
Hetherington dives into the fate of Paraguay’s Pink Tide regime...
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Hanna Garth, "Food In Cuba: The Pursuit of a De...
Hanna Garth examines the processes of acquiring food and preparing meals in the midst of food shortages...
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