The ReVista book review section features reviews of recent books about Latin America, the Caribbean and the Latinx community in all disciplines.
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A Review of Immigration, Policy, and the People of Latin America: Seven Sending Nations
A Review of Immigration, Policy, and the People of Latin America: Seven Sending Nations No one truly wants to leave their homeland. That’s a saying I’ve heard countless times in two decades of reporting on immigrants and immigration policy in the United States for the...
A Review of Afrocentroamérica: Entre memoria y olvido
A Review of Afrocentroamérica: Entre memoria y olvido In graduate school at UC Berkeley in the 1980s, I knew that I wanted to work on Central America, on U.S. involvement there, and on social or labor history. What I knew about Central America came from the news, from...
A Review of The Amazon in Times of War
A Review of The Amazon in Times of WarMarcos Colón’s book The Amazon in Times of War offers a compelling collection of essays exposing the physical, economic and institutional violence that devastates the Amazon. He argues that much of this destruction stems from...
A Review of Historieta Doble: A Graphic History of Participatory Action Research
A Review of Historieta Doble: A Graphic History of Participatory Action Research In 1997, I attended the worldwide Action Research Conference in Cartagena, Colombia. One of the sessions opened a space for action research from industrial settings. I presented a project...
A Review of Liberation Theology and Praxis in Contemporary Latin America. As it Was in the Beginning?
A Review of Liberation Theology and Praxis in Contemporary Latin America. As it Was in the Beginning? The book Liberation Theology and Praxis in Contemporary Latin America assumes great relevance with the shifting landscape of the Catholic Church under Pope Francis,...
A Review of The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times
A Review of The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times Latin America, and the world more broadly, has been mired in crisis throughout the first quarter of the 21st century. From economic downturns to ecological disasters to legacies of...
A Review of Cash, Clothes, and Construction. Rethinking Value in Bolivia’s Pluri-economy
A Review of Cash, Clothes, and Construction: Rethinking Value in Bolivia’s Pluri-economy A cottage industry of academic research on Bolivia has flourished over the past twenty years. Unleashed by popular mobilizations and political transformation around the turn of...
A Review of Representing the Barrios: Culture, Politics, and Urban Policy in Twentieth Century Caracas
A Review of Representing the Barrios: Culture, Politics, and Urban Policy in Twentieth Century CaracasRebecca Jarman, in her book, Representing the Barrios: Culture, Politics, and Urban Policy in Twentieth Century Caracas, explores the vibrancy and complexity of...
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