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New Books in Latin American Studies
Joseph U. Lenti, “Redeeming the Revolution: The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico” (U Nebraska Press, 2017)
Joseph U. Lenti
Redeeming the Revolution: The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico
The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico
University of Nebraska Press, 2017

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 13, 2019 Julian Dodson

Dr. Joseph U. Lenti’s Redeeming the Revolution: The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico (University of Nebraska Press, 2017) focuses on state-labor relations in the decade directly following the massacre of peacefully protesting students in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the the Tlatelolco district of Mexico on... Read More
Juan Javier Rivera Andía, “Non-Humans in Amerindian South America” (Berghahn, 2018)
Juan Javier Rivera Andía
Non-Humans in Amerindian South America
Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals, and Songs
Berghahn Books, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network August 12, 2019 Jacob Doherty

In Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals, and Songs (Berghahn, 2018), eleven researchers bring new ethnographies to bear on anthropological debates on ontology and the anthropocene. In this episode of New Books in Anthropology, the book’s editor Juan Javier Rivera Andía talks with host Jacob Doherty... Read More
Jaime Alves, “Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
Jaime Alves
Anti-Black City
Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil
University of Minnesota Press, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network August 2, 2019 Jacob Doherty

The 2018 election of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil has brought the issues of police violence, racial discrimination, and misogyny to the fore. Jaime Alves’s book the Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) shows that, from the perspective of Black... Read More
A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, “Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia” (Duke UP, 2019)
A. Ricardo López-Pedreros
Makers of Democracy
A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia
Duke University Press, 2019

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 1, 2019 Alejandra Bronfman

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. A. Ricardo López-Pedreros‘ Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia (Duke University Press, 2019)... Read More
Okezi Otovo, “Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945” (U Texas Press, 2016)
Okezi Otovo
Progressive Mothers, Better Babies
Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945
University of Texas Press, 2016

New Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society July 30, 2019 Patrícia Martins Marcos

Okezi Otovo’s Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945 (U Texas Press, 2016) explores the intersecting histories of race, gender, and class in modern Brazil. Between 1850 and 1945, the period covered in the book, Brazil experienced a range of profound socio-political transformations: from... Read More
Monica Muñoz Martinez, “The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Monica Muñoz Martinez
The Injustice Never Leaves You
Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
Harvard University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the American WestNew Books Network July 29, 2019 Stephen Hausmann

On January 28, 1918, just outside of town of Porvenir, Texas, US Army servicemen, Texas Rangers, and civilians murdered 15 unarmed Mexican men and boys. This massacre was not an aberration, writes Monica Muñoz Martinez, the Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University... Read More
Gabriela González, “Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability and Rights” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Gabriela González
Redeeming La Raza
Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability and Rights
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 29, 2019 Tiffany Jasmin González

Tiffany Jasmin González speaks with Dr. Gabriela González about her award-winning book, Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability and Rights (Oxford University Press, 2018) to talk about the strategies transborder activists used to redeem la raza from body politic exclusion happening in the U.S. She finds that middle-class Mexican... Read More