New Books in Latin American Studies
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Miroslava Chávez-García, "Migrant Longing: Lett...
"Migrant Longing" is a history of migration, courtship, and identity across the U.S.-Mexican border...
53 min
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Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, "Wind and Power ...
This is the third of three interviews with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer about their duo-graph, Wind and Power in the Anthropocene...
37 min
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Dominic Boyer, "Energopolitics: Wind and Power ...
Boyer examines the politics of wind development in Mexico to think through how the energy and environmental crises of global warming require new approaches to political theory....
42 min
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Bianca Premo, "The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordi...
Premo demonstrates a gradual shift from a justice-oriented system—focused on extralegal outcomes and casuistic jurisprudence—to a Enlightened law-oriented system...
68 min
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Jesse Cromwell, "The Smugglers’ World: Illicit ...
This incredibly well researched and beautifully written book explores how smuggling in the Spanish Atlantic became more than an economic transaction or imperial worry...
49 min
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Cymene Howe, "Ecologics: Wind and Power in the ...
Howe examines the aborted Mareña Renovables wind park to understand the resistance of indigenous residents to renewable energy...
41 min
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Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New...
Hoffnung-Garskof seamlessly ties together various scholarly subfields into a truly transnational history of anticolonial politics and the Afro-Latino diaspora in the United States...
86 min
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Joseph U. Lenti, "Redeeming the Revolution: The...
Lenti focuses on state-labor relations in the decade directly following the massacre of peacefully protesting students in 1968...
49 min
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Juan Javier Rivera Andía, "Non-Humans in Amerin...
Eleven researchers bring new ethnographies to bear on anthropological debates on ontology and the anthropocene.
57 min
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Jaime Alves, "Anti-Black City: Police Terror an...
Alves makes a powerful contribution to urban anthropology, describing the spatial contours of “Brazilian Apartheid” in Sao Paulo...
62 min
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A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, "Makers of Democracy...
This tightly argued social and intellectual history of the middle classes in Colombia makes a compelling case for the importance of both transnationalism and gender in the mid-century idea of middle-class-ness...
36 min
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Okezi Otovo, "Progressive Mothers, Better Babie...
Otovo explores the intersecting histories of race, gender, and class in modern Brazil...
71 min
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Monica Muñoz Martinez, "The Injustice Never Lea...
Martinez argues that the rampant violence inflicted by Anglos against Mexican and Latinx people in Texas in the early twentieth century left a long legacy which reverberates into the twenty first century...
67 min
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Gabriela González, "Redeeming La Raza: Transbor...
Gonzalez strategies transborder activists used to redeem la raza from body politic exclusion happening in the U.S....
63 min
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Casey Lurtz, "From the Grounds Up: Building an ...
Lurtz explains how the fertile yet isolated region of the Soconusco became integrated into global markets in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth centuries...
57 min
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Jennifer A. Jones, "The Browning of the New Sou...
Jones examines the evolution of race relations in the face of rapid demographic change as Mexican immigrants move into the traditionally biracial American South...
53 min
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Andrew Torget, "Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slaver...
The secession of Texas from Mexico was a dry run for the slaveholder’s republic of the Confederate States of America, argues Andrew Torget...
50 min
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Susan Ellison, "Domesticating Democracy: The Po...
Ellison explores the world of foreign-funded alternate dispute resolution (ADR) organizations working in El Alto, Bolivia...
59 min
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Ricardo Cubas Ramacciotti, "The Politics of Rel...
Ramacciotti provides a lucid synthesis of the Catholic Church’s responses to the secularization of the State and society...
56 min
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Carlos Garrido Castellano, "Beyond Representati...
Castellano argues for a way of experiencing and writing about art that explodes all of our assumptions, and makes new spectators of us all...
33 min
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Chinyere K. Osuji, "Boundaries of Love: Interra...
The increasing presence of interracial relationships is often read as an antidote to racism or as an indicator of the decreasing significance of race...
52 min
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Lina del Castillo, "Crafting a Republic for the...
Lina del Castillo’s book explores scientific, geographic, and historiographic inventions in nineteenth-century Colombia...
63 min
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Yuko Miki, "Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black a...
"Frontiers of Citizenship" is a beautifully written book that integrates quite seamlessly the history black and indigenous peoples in 19th century Brazil.
64 min
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Anna Rose Alexander, "City on Fire: Technology,...
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...
37 min
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Laura R. Barraclough, "Charros: How Mexican Cow...
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...
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