New Books in Latin American Studies
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Margaret Randall, "I Never Left Home: Poet, Fem...
Randall focuses in this memoir on recreating the communities and historical moments in which she lived. Randall especially emphasizes how her encounter with feminist thinking reshaped how she understood not only her own life, but also the Latin American revolutions she saw up from up close...
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A. B. Chastain and T. W. Lorek, "Itineraries of...
The essays in this volume reshape our understanding of Latin America's Long Cold War.
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Jacob Blanc, "Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam ...
Blanc tells the story of the the Itaipu dam, a massive hydroelectric complex built on the Brazil-Paraguay border in the 1970s and 1980s...
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Lina Britto, "Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall...
Britto tells the forgotten story of the first boom in illicit drugs in the Greater Magdalena region of Colombia...
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Cassia Roth, "A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s...
Roth examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
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Oliver Kaplan, "Resisting War: How Communities ...
Kaplan’s case studies of Columbia – with extensions to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and the Philippines – demonstrates how, why, and when civilians effectively resist the influence of armed actors and limit violence...
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
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Tobie Stein, "Racial and Ethnic Diversity in th...
Stein analyses the longstanding failure of America’s theatre industry to address issues of diversity...
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Nancy Appelbaum, "Mapping the Country of Region...
Appelbaum reconstructs how elites, through visual and textual methodologies, envisioned the nation and its component parts...
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Alex Hidalgo, "Trail of Footprints: A History o...
Hidalgo sheds new light on the purpose, production, and preservation of maps as well as the lives of Indigenous peoples and Spaniards alike involved in their production...
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Eva van Roekel, "Phenomenal Justice: Violence a...
Van Roekel approaches the question: how do survivors, victims, and perpetrators of political violence experience justice on their own terms?
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
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Erika Denise Edwards, "Hiding in Plain Sight: B...
Edwards has produced the first comprehensive study in English of the history of African descendants outside of Buenos Aires in the late colonial and early republican periods...
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Pilar M. Herr, "Contested Nation: The Mapuche, ...
Herr places the independent Mapuche people and pro-Spanish Pincheira bandits at the heart of Chile’s nineteenth century. During the 1820s,..
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James N. Green, "Exile Within Exiles: Herbert D...
Green tells the story of Herbert Daniel, a significant and complex figure in Brazilian leftist revolutionary politics and social activism from the mid-1960s until his death in 1992...
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Martín Prechtel, "The Disobedience of the Daugh...
Prechtel introduces the unique stories he heard when he lived among the Tzutujil Mayan people in the village of Santiago Atitlan in the Guatemalan highlands...
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Mario T. García, "Father Luis Olivares, A Biogr...
García traces Olivares’ humble beginnings as a poor boy growing up in San Antonio’s west side barrio to his improbable rise as the “Gucci priest” of the Claretian order...
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Roberto Strongman, "Queering Black Atlantic Rel...
Strongman reveals the many non-heteronormative texts, practices and beliefs though which Black Atlantic religious practices in Haiti, Cuba and Brazil were constituted...
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
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Salvador Salinas, "Land, Liberty, and Water: Mo...
Salinas fills an important gap in the history of the Zapatista Revolution in Morelos - namely, what happened after 1920...
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Lindsay Mayka, "Building Participatory Institut...
Mayka’s new book examines the idea and implementation of participatory institutions, asking the question about when they actually work, and when they do not work, and why this is the case, especially in Latin America...
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Benjamin Dangl, "The Five Hundred Year Rebellio...
Dangl demonstrates the ways that Aymara, Quechua, and Guaraní intellectuals, activists, and communities use history as a means of resistance...
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Gonzalo Lamana, "How 'Indians' Think: Colonial ...
Lamana carefully investigates the writings of Indigenous intellectuals of the Andean region during Spanish colonialism...
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Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, "Aerial Imagin...
This dense and surprising ethnography considers the everyday lives of Cubans as they navigate, invent, and strategize ways to sustain what is most important to them...
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Matthew D. O'Hara, "The History of the Future i...
O’Hara uncovers a vast array of social practices in colonial Mexico that force us to reconsider who owns the future...
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