New Books in Latin American Studies

New Books in Latin American Studies


Latest Episodes

Miroslava Chávez-García, "Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" (UNC Press, 2018)
September 17, 2019

"Migrant Longing" is a history of migration, courtship, and identity across the U.S.-Mexican border...

Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, "Wind and Power in the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2019)
September 10, 2019

This is the third of three interviews with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer about their duo-graph, Wind and Power in the Anthropocene...

Dominic Boyer, "Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2019)
September 03, 2019

Boyer examines the politics of wind development in Mexico to think through how the energy and environmental crises of global warming require new approaches to political theory....

Bianca Premo, "The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire" (Oxford UP, 2017)
September 02, 2019

Premo demonstrates a gradual shift from a justice-oriented system—focused on extralegal outcomes and casuistic jurisprudence—to a Enlightened law-oriented system...

Jesse Cromwell, "The Smugglers’ World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela" (UNC Press, 2018)
August 28, 2019

This incredibly well researched and beautifully written book explores how smuggling in the Spanish Atlantic became more than an economic transaction or imperial worry...

Cymene Howe, "Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene (Duke UP, 2019)
August 27, 2019

Howe examines the aborted Mareña Renovables wind park to understand the resistance of indigenous residents to renewable energy...

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2019)
August 27, 2019

Hoffnung-Garskof seamlessly ties together various scholarly subfields into a truly transnational history of anticolonial politics and the Afro-Latino diaspora in the United States...

Joseph U. Lenti, "Redeeming the Revolution: The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico" (U Nebraska Press, 2017)
August 13, 2019

Lenti focuses on state-labor relations in the decade directly following the massacre of peacefully protesting students in 1968...

Juan Javier Rivera Andía, "Non-Humans in Amerindian South America" (Berghahn, 2018)
August 12, 2019

Eleven researchers bring new ethnographies to bear on anthropological debates on ontology and the anthropocene.

Jaime Alves, "Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
August 02, 2019

Alves makes a powerful contribution to urban anthropology, describing the spatial contours of “Brazilian Apartheid” in Sao Paulo...