New Books in Latin American Studies

New Books in Latin American Studies


Latest Episodes

NBN Classic: M. L. Mitma and J. P. Heilman, "Now Peru is Mine: The Life and Times of a Campesino Activist" (Duke UP, 2016)
September 24, 2022

This book tells the remarkable story of a campesino and indigenous political activist whose career spanned much of Peru’s twentieth century and whose achievements at the local and national level transformed Peruvian peasant politics...

Karin Rosemblatt, "The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950" (UNC Press, 2018)
September 23, 2022

Rosemblatt traces how U.S.- and Mexican-trained intellectuals, social and human scientists, and anthropologists applied their ethnographic field work on indigenous and Native American peoples on both

Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" (Duke UP, 2019)
September 22, 2022

An interview with Andrea Ballestero

On Jorge Luis Borges' "Fictions"
September 21, 2022

A Discussion with Mariano Siskind