New Books in Latin American Studies
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Carolina Alonso Bejarano, "Decolonizing Ethnogr...
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.
57 min
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Daniel Nemser, "Infrastructures of Race: Concen...
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...
60 min
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P. L. Caballero and A. Acevedo-Rodrigo, "Beyond...
"Beyond Alterity" is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that take such an approach to studying indigenous communities and the concept of indigeneity...
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Nancy Mirabal, "Suspect Freedoms: The Racial an...
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...
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Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel, "Futbolera: A Hi...
Elsey and Nadel uncover the hidden history of the arrival of physical education for girls in the late-nineteenth century,
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Paul Ramírez, "Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s E...
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...
54 min
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Rebecca Janzen, "Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonite...
Janzen examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture...
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Melanie A. Medeiros, "Marriage, Divorce, and Di...
Medeiros explores the women’s rich stories of desire, love, respect, suffering, strength, and transformation...
57 min
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Katherine M. Marino, "Feminism for the Americas...
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...
51 min
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Christina Proenza-Coles, "American Founders: Ho...
Proenza-Coles reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy...
51 min
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Peter Guardino, "The Dead March: A History of t...
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...
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Scott Wallace, "The Unconquered: In Search of t...
Wallace talks about a 2002 FUNAI expedition to find the Arrow People, one of the last uncontacted tribes in the world.,,
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Gregg Bocketti, "The Invention of the Beautiful...
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...
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Sandra Mendiola García, "Street Democracy: Vend...
Garcia analyzes independent union activism among street vendors facing state repression and the displacing forces of neoliberalism...
53 min
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Kris Lane, "Potosí: The Silver City That Change...
In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver bonanza...
58 min
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Marixa Lasso, "Erased: The Untold Story of the ...
Lasso argues compellingly that the construction of the Panama Canal prompted the destruction of a bustling network of towns, along with the livelihoods and democratic traditions of their inhabitants...
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Jessica A. J. Rich, "State-Sponsored Activism: ...
Rich's book is a fascinating and important examination of civil-state relations, social movements, and bureaucracies all centering around AIDS/HIV policy as the nexus of analysis.
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Melissa Johnson, "Becoming Creole: Nature and R...
Johnson demonstrates how entangled people are with the other-than-human that surrounds them...
44 min
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
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Alfredo Toro Hardy, "The Crossroads of Globaliz...
Alfredo Toro Hardy analyzes the leadership of China and the economic strength of Asia...
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Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, and Ora ...
Darden, Henshaw, and Szekley investigate the mobilization of female fighters, women’s roles in combat, and what happens to women when conflicts end...
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Zeb Tortorici, "Sins Against Nature: Sex and Ar...
Men and women often engaged in ‘unnatural’ sexual acts revealed the relations of power in colonial society,...
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Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie Harris, "Sexuality...
Scholarly interest in the institution of American slavery is enjoying a kind of resurgence...
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Alexander S. Dawson, "The Peyote Effect: From t...
Peyote occupies a curious place in the United States and Mexico...
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Judith Eve Lipton and David P. Barash, "Strengt...
Costa Rica is the only full-fledged and totally independent country to be entirely demilitarized...
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