Gonzalez strategies transborder activists used to redeem la raza from body politic exclusion happening in the U.S....

Lurtz explains how the fertile yet isolated region of the Soconusco became integrated into global markets in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth centuries...

The secession of Texas from Mexico was a dry run for the slaveholder’s republic of the Confederate States of America, argues Andrew Torget...

Jones examines the evolution of race relations in the face of rapid demographic change as Mexican immigrants move into the traditionally biracial American South...

Ramacciotti provides a lucid synthesis of the Catholic Church’s responses to the secularization of the State and society...

Ellison explores the world of foreign-funded alternate dispute resolution (ADR) organizations working in El Alto, Bolivia...

Castellano argues for a way of experiencing and writing about art that explodes all of our assumptions, and makes new spectators of us all...

The increasing presence of interracial relationships is often read as an antidote to racism or as an indicator of the decreasing significance of race...

Lina del Castillo’s book explores scientific, geographic, and historiographic inventions in nineteenth-century Colombia...

"Frontiers of Citizenship" is a beautifully written book that integrates quite seamlessly the history black and indigenous peoples in 19th century Brazil.

Alexander examines the approaches to dealing with the ever-present threat of fire in Mexico City in an era in which technology and modernity were transforming the city in fundamental ways...

Barraclough writes the history of elite Mexican and Mexican-American cowboys – charros – and how charro culture served as a site of contested national identity in the mid twentieth century United States...

The book explores ways in which ethnography, as practiced by people who have historically been objects of ethnographic study, can yield transformative and liberatory results.

Nemser examines the long history of how Spanish imperial rule depended upon spatial concentration – the gathering of people and things into centralized spaces – to control populations and consolidate power...

Mirabal details New York Cuban diasporic history between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with keen attention to how political debates about the potential future, visibility, and belonging in Cuba played out along issues of race and gender...

"Beyond Alterity" is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that take such an approach to studying indigenous communities and the concept of indigeneity...

Elsey and Nadel uncover the hidden history of the arrival of physical education for girls in the late-nineteenth century,

Ramirez explores how laypeople impacted the new medical techniques and technologies implemented by the imperial state in the final decades of Spanish rule in colonial Mexico...

Janzen examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture...

Medeiros explores the women’s rich stories of desire, love, respect, suffering, strength, and transformation...

Marino follows the many Latin American and Caribbean women in the first half of the century who not only championed feminism for the continent but also contributed to defining the meaning of international human rights...

Proenza-Coles reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy...

Peter Guardino argues that in order to understand the war’s beginnings, its course, and its legacy, both Mexico and the United States need to be considered as equal halves in the conflict’s history...

Wallace talks about a 2002 FUNAI expedition to find the Arrow People, one of the last uncontacted tribes in the world.,,

Bocketti takes on the traditional nationalist narrative of Brazilian football, which suggests that their successful teams of the interwar and postwar era, which occurred following the shift from foot-ball to futebol in Brazil, arose from the countries specific cultural and racial heritage...