New Books in Latin American Studies

New Books in Latin American Studies


Latest Episodes

A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, "Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia" (Duke UP, 2019)
August 01, 2019

This tightly argued social and intellectual history of the middle classes in Colombia makes a compelling case for the importance of both transnationalism and gender in the mid-century idea of middle-class-ness...

Okezi Otovo, "Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945" (U Texas Press, 2016)
July 30, 2019

Otovo explores the intersecting histories of race, gender, and class in modern Brazil...

Gabriela González, "Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability and Rights" (Oxford UP, 2018)
July 29, 2019

Gonzalez strategies transborder activists used to redeem la raza from body politic exclusion happening in the U.S....

Monica Muñoz Martinez, "The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas" (Harvard UP, 2018)
July 29, 2019

Martinez argues that the rampant violence inflicted by Anglos against Mexican and Latinx people in Texas in the early twentieth century left a long legacy which reverberates into the twenty first century...

Susan Ellison, "Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia" (Duke UP, 2018)
July 23, 2019

Ellison explores the world of foreign-funded alternate dispute resolution (ADR) organizations working in El Alto, Bolivia...

Ricardo Cubas Ramacciotti, "The Politics of Religion and the Rise of Social Catholicism in Peru (1884-1935)" (Brill, 2018)
July 23, 2019

Ramacciotti provides a lucid synthesis of the Catholic Church’s responses to the secularization of the State and society...

Carlos Garrido Castellano, "Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
July 17, 2019

Castellano argues for a way of experiencing and writing about art that explodes all of our assumptions, and makes new spectators of us all...

Chinyere K. Osuji, "Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race" (NYU Press, 2019)
July 11, 2019

The increasing presence of interracial relationships is often read as an antidote to racism or as an indicator of the decreasing significance of race...

Lina del Castillo, "Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
July 09, 2019

Lina del Castillo’s book explores scientific, geographic, and historiographic inventions in nineteenth-century Colombia...

Yuko Miki, "Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
July 05, 2019

"Frontiers of Citizenship" is a beautifully written book that integrates quite seamlessly the history black and indigenous peoples in 19th century Brazil.