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Brenden W. Rensink, “Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands” (Texas A&M UP, 2018)

Brenden W. Rensink
Native but Foreign
Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands
Texas A&M University Press, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Native American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in the American West New Books Network December 13, 2018 Tim Heise

In his new book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands (Texas A&M University Press, 2018), Brenden W. Rensink asks the question “How do national borders affect and react to Native identity?” To answer this question he compares indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in... Read More

Ana Paulina Lee, “Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory” (Stanford UP, 2018)

Ana Paulina Lee
Mandarin Brazil
Race, Representation, and Memory
Stanford University Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network December 13, 2018 Ian Shin

In her new book, Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory (Stanford University Press, 2018), Ana Paulina Lee (Columbia University) analyzes representations of the Chinese in Brazilian culture to understand their significance for Brazilian nation-building in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Lee has assembled a multidisciplinary archive encompassing literature, visual... Read More

Mark Rice, “Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru” (UNC Press, 2018)

Mark Rice
Making Machu Picchu
The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru
University of North Carolina Press, 2018

New Books in Archaeology New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Native American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in World Affairs New Books Network December 11, 2018 Ryan Tripp

Speaking at a 1913 National Geographic Society gala, Hiram Bingham III, the American explorer celebrated for finding the “lost city” of the Andes two years earlier, suggested that Machu Picchu “is an awful name, but it is well worth remembering.” Millions of travelers have since followed Bingham’s advice. When Bingham... Read More

Sara Komarnisky, “Mexicans in Alaska: An Ethnography of Mobility, Place, and Transnational Life” (U Nebraska Press, 2018)

Sara Komarnisky
Mexicans in Alaska
An Ethnography of Mobility, Place, and Transnational Life
University of Nebraska Press, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network December 6, 2018 Carrie Lane

“There are Mexicans in Alaska?” This was the response Sara Komarnisky heard repeatedly when describing her research on three generations of transnational migrants who divide their time between Anchorage, Alaska and Acuitzio del Canje, Michoacán, Mexico. In her multi-sited ethnography, Mexicans in Alaska: An Ethnography of Mobility, Place, and Transnational... Read More

Lilian Calles Barger, “The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology” (Oxford UP, 2018)

Lilian Calles Barger
The World Come of Age
An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in Christian Studies New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network November 7, 2018 Carl Nellis

A searching and richly textured history of the affinities and common origins of Latin American and North American liberation theologies, The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Oxford University Press 2018) dives into the work of thinkers who understood that theology must must have something to... Read More