New Books in Latin American Studies

Edgardo Pérez Morales, “No Limits to Their Sway: Cartagena’s Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions” (Vanderbilt UP, 2018)

Edgardo Pérez Morales
No Limits to Their Sway
Cartagena’s Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions
Vanderbilt University Press, 2018

New Books in Caribbean Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network September 23, 2020 Sharika Crawford

In No Limits to Their Sway: Cartagena’s Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions (Vanderbilt University Press, 2018), Edgardo Pérez Morales investigates the hemispheric connections between the Spanish American colony of New Granada (or Colombia) and the greater Caribbean in the wake of the Haitian Revolution. Residents... Read More

Maurice S. Crandall, “These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912” (UNC Press, 2019)

Maurice S. Crandall
These People Have Always Been a Republic
Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912
University of North Carolina Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Law New Books in Native American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network September 22, 2020 David Dry

Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall’s These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912 (UNC Press, 2019) demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy, both to... Read More

Sarah Shulist, “Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon” (U Toronto Press, 2018)

Sarah Shulist
Transforming Indigenity
Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon
University of Toronto Press, 2018

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Language New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Native American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society September 22, 2020 Carrie Gillon

Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon (University of Toronto Press) examines the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices aimed at... Read More

Frederick Luis Aldama, “Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities” (U Arizona Press, 2020)

Frederick Luis Aldama
Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities

University of Arizona Press, 2020

New Books in Gender Studies 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 September 22, 2020 Jaime Sánchez Jr.

An early wave of research helped make visible the complex dynamics of sexuality and gender norms in Latino life, but a new generation of scholars is bringing renewed energy and curiosity to this field of inquiry. In this episode we sit down with Frederick Luis Aldama, Distinguished University Professor at... Read More

Rachel V. González, “Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities” (U Texas Press, 2019)

Rachel Valentina González
Quinceañera Style
Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities
University of Texas Press, 2019

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Folklore 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 September 18, 2020 Nancy Yan

A quinceañera is a traditional fifteenth birthday celebration for young women (though in contemporary times, it can also be for young men) in many Latinx communities. While the celebration has roots in religiosity, it has also become a space for imagining and performing class, identity, and Americanity. With fieldwork conducted... Read More

Jack Santino, “Public Performances: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque” (UP Colorado, 2017)

Jack Santino
Public Performances
Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque
University Press of Colorado, 2017

Celebration Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Folklore New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Performing Arts New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture New Books Network September 17, 2020 Isabel Machado

Public Performances: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque (University Press of Colorado) offers a deep and wide-ranging exploration of relationships among genres of public performance and of the underlying political motivations they share. Illustrating the connections among three themes—the political, the carnivalesque, and the ritualesque—the volume provides rich and comprehensive... Read More

Jean Jackson, “Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia” (Stanford UP, 2019)

Jean Jackson
Managing Multiculturalism
Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia
Stanford University Press, 2019

New Books in Anthropology 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 Public Policy September 16, 2020 Lisette Varón Carvajal

In Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia (Stanford University Press) Jean Jackson narrates her remarkable journey as an anthropologist in Colombia for over 50 years. This is an extraordinary book because it shows us Jackson’s trajectory, the challenges she faced, the changes she underwent as a researcher... Read More

Thea Riofrancos, “Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador” (Duke UP, 2020)

Thea Riofrancos
Resource Radicals
From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador
Duke University Press, 2020

New Books in Economics New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books in World Affairs September 14, 2020 Geoffrey Gordon

In 2007, Ecuador joined the Latin American “Pink Tide” by electing a left-wing president, Rafael Correa, who voiced opposition to US imperialism and advocated higher levels of redistribution and social investment. However, shortly after coming to power, Correa came into conflict with members of his own coalition over the future... Read More

Mark Santiago, “A Bad Peace and A Good War: Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795-1799” (U Oklahoma Press, 2018)

Mark Santiago
A Bad Peace and A Good War
Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795-1799
University of Oklahoma Press, 2018

New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Military History 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 September 11, 2020 Stephen Hausmann

In August 1795, Apaches wiped out two Spanish patrols In the desert borderlands of the what is today the American Southwest and Mexican north. This attack ended what had bene an uneasy peace between various Apache groups and the Spanish Empire. In A Bad Peace and A Good War: Spain... Read More

Isabella Cosse, “Mafalda: A Social And Political History of a Global Comic” (Duke UP, 2019)

Isabella Cosse
Mafalda
A Social And Political History of a Global Comic
Duke University Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters 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 Popular Culture New Books in Sociology September 8, 2020 Rachel Grace Newman

Isabella Cosse’s Mafalda: A Social And Political History of a Global Comic (Duke University Press) is the definitive account of the most famous comic from Latin America, the Argentine strip Mafalda (1964-1973). Mafalda, a four-year-old girl living in a Buenos Aires apartment with her middle-class family, became an international symbol... Read More