New Books in Latin American Studies
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Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, "Mexico's Indigenous Comm...
An interview with Ethelia Ruiz Medrano
60 min
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Joel Wolfe, “Autos and Progress: The Brazilian ...
Here’s something I learned by reading Joel Wolfe’s terrific Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity (Oxford, 2010): the United States and Brazil have a lot in common. Both hived off European empires; both struggled with slavery and its l...
64 min
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William Beezley, “Mexicans in Revolution, 1910-...
It’s shocking and embarrassing how little I, as an American, know about Mexican history. Mexico shares a 2,000 mile long border with the United States. Mexico is America’s third largest trading partner (behind Canada–about which I also know nothing–and...
65 min
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William Beezley, “Mexican National Identity: Me...
The question of how we come to understand who we are–nationality-wise–is a thorny one. In a widely-read book, Benedict Anderson said we got nationality, inter alia, by reading about it in books. William Beezley‘s got a different, though complementary,
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