New Books in Latin American Studies

New Books in Latin American Studies


Latest Episodes

Ashley E. Kerr, "Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860-1910)" (Vanderbilt UP, 2020)
June 22, 2020

Kerr argues that Argentine scientific projects of the era were not just racial encounters, but were also conditioned by sexual relationships in all their messy, physical reality...

Robert Samet, "Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
June 19, 2020

Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, has been ranked as one of the most violent cities in the world...

Nora Haenn, "Marriage after Migration: An Ethnography of Money, Romance, and Gender in Globalizing Mexico" (Oxford UP, 2019)
June 17, 2020

Haenn tells the stories of five women in rural Mexico, each navigating the tricky terrain that is men’s international migration...

Thomas C. Field Jr. et al., "Latin America and the Global Cold War" (UNC Press, 2020)
June 16, 2020

The Cold War is not exactly over in Latin America...

Alberto Harambour, "Soberanías fronterizas: Estados y capital en la colonización de Patagonia" (EUAC, 2019)
June 15, 2020

Harambour examines the explosion of foreign-owned sheep farming, the fitful expansion of Argentine and Chilean sovereignty, and the violence of primitive accumulation and genocide in southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego...

Edgar Garcia,  "Signs of the America: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs and Khipu" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
June 12, 2020

Garcia sets sparks flying by inviting us to explore the literature and theory created by 20th and 21st century writers who deploy sign systems...

Romeo Guzman et al., "East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
June 12, 2020

Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte...

Cristina Soriano, "Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela" (UNM Press, 2018)
June 10, 2020

Soriano examines the links between the spread of radical ideas, literacy, and the circulation of information in a society without a printing press...

A. D. Crosby and M. B. Lykes, "In Beyond Repair? Mayan Women’s Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
June 10, 2020

The authors draw on eight years of feminist participatory action research conducted with fifty-four Q’eqchi’, Kaqchikel, Chuj, and Mam women to explore Mayan women’s agency in their search for truth, justice, and reparation...

Ana María Reyes, "The Politics of Taste: Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2019)
June 09, 2020

Reyes examines the ways Colombian artist Beatriz González and Argentine-born art critic Marta Traba railed against international forms of modernism...