New Books in Latin American Studies
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Matthew Pettway, "Cuban Literature in the Age o...
Pettway examines how the portrayal of African ideas of spirit and cosmos in otherwise conventional texts recur throughout early Cuban literature and became the basis for Manzano and Plácido’s antislavery philosophy...
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Allison Bigelow, "Mining Language: Racial Think...
The Spanish Empire in particular was created for and founded upon the mining and coining of silver ore from its colonies...
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David Carballo, "Collision of Worlds: A Deep Hi...
Carballo provides a deep history of the encounter, one that considers temporal depth in the richly layered cultures of Mexico and Spain...
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Claudia Rueda, "Students of Revolution: Youth, ...
Rueda offers a history of student organizing against dictatorship in twentieth-century Nicaragua...
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Natalie Kimball, "An Open Secret: The History o...
Kimball argues that, despite stigma and continued legal prohibitions, practices and attitudes surrounding abortion have changed in urban Bolivia since the 1950s..
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Alejandra Bronfman, "Isles of Noise: Sonic Medi...
Bronfman traces the emergence and growth of telecommunications technologies in Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba during the first half of the twentieth century...
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Ashley E. Kerr, "Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gen...
Kerr argues that Argentine scientific projects of the era were not just racial encounters, but were also conditioned by sexual relationships in all their messy, physical reality...
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Robert Samet, "Deadline: Populism and the Press...
Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, has been ranked as one of the most violent cities in the world...
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Nora Haenn, "Marriage after Migration: An Ethno...
Haenn tells the stories of five women in rural Mexico, each navigating the tricky terrain that is men’s international migration...
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Thomas C. Field Jr. et al., "Latin America and ...
The Cold War is not exactly over in Latin America...
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Alberto Harambour, "Soberanías fronterizas: Est...
Harambour examines the explosion of foreign-owned sheep farming, the fitful expansion of Argentine and Chilean sovereignty, and the violence of primitive accumulation and genocide in southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego...
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Romeo Guzman et al., "East of East: The Making ...
Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte...
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Edgar Garcia, "Signs of the America: A Poetics...
Garcia sets sparks flying by inviting us to explore the literature and theory created by 20th and 21st century writers who deploy sign systems...
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Cristina Soriano, "Tides of Revolution: Informa...
Soriano examines the links between the spread of radical ideas, literacy, and the circulation of information in a society without a printing press...
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A. D. Crosby and M. B. Lykes, "In Beyond Repair...
The authors draw on eight years of feminist participatory action research conducted with fifty-four Q’eqchi’, Kaqchikel, Chuj, and Mam women to explore Mayan women’s agency in their search for truth, justice, and reparation...
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Ana María Reyes, "The Politics of Taste: Beatri...
Reyes examines the ways Colombian artist Beatriz González and Argentine-born art critic Marta Traba railed against international forms of modernism...
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Tanya Harmer, "Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary...
Harmer explores how a young Chilean woman pursued her political commitments and navigated patriarchal strictures as a militant leftist...
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
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Donald Stevens, "Mexico in the Time of Cholera"...
Stevens uses the 1833 Cholera epidemic that devastated independent Mexico as his his point of departure, this is not primarily a medical history...
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Alexander L. Fattal, "Guerrilla Marketing: Coun...
Fattal investigates the Colombian government’s campaign to turn Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens...
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Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, "Landscape of Migration: Mo...
Nobbs-Thiessen traces the entwined histories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants to Amazonian Bolivia...
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Louis A. Pérez, "Rice in the Time of Sugar: The...
Pérez explores how Cuba’s dependency on the sugar economy also made the island’s population dependent on food imports like rice.
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Robert A. Karl, "Forgotten Peace: Reform, Viole...
Karl explores how Colombians grappled with violence and peace during and after the period known as “La Violencia”—a period that many historians situate between 1946 and the mid 1960s...
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Victor Uribe-Urán, "Fatal Love: Spousal Killers...
Uribe-Urán compares the cases of Spain, and the late-colonial societies of Mexico and Colombia, in a historical moment characterized by corporate patriarchy and enlightened punishment...
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
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