Barragán-Goetz argues that through cultural negotiation, escuelitas (community schools) shaped Mexican American identity and civil rights activism in the late 19th and early 20th century...

Chakravarti recovers the religious roots of Europe's first global order, by tracing the evolution of a religious vision of empire through the lives of Jesuits working in the missions of early modern Brazil and India...

Alamillo illustrates how sports intersect in the making of a Latina/o identity, civil rights activities, and community...

Tavarez and his colleagues tackle the big questions of the Christianization of Mexico after the Spanish Conquest and using sources in several indigenous languages...

With the return to democracy in 1983, Argentines experienced new freedoms, including sexual freedoms...

Beckett offers an examination of “crisis” in Haiti, and pushes back against the widespread racist idea that Haiti is inherently lawless by showing the ongoing production of disorder, the scripting of crisis, and the concatenation of disaster...

Scarfi shows the central role of a coterie of elite Latin American jurists and intellectuals in constructing a Pan-American inflected conception of international law...

Drinot studies the interplay of sexuality, society, and the state in Peru in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

Mexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expression...

Zien examines the ways politicians, activists, artists, and residents performed and interpreted sovereignty in the Canal Zone...