The ReVista book review section features reviews of recent books about Latin America, the Caribbean and the Latinx community in all disciplines.
Recent Reviews
A Review of The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America by Andrea Giunta
A Review of The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin AmericaBack in 2013 when I started the research for Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists 1960s-2020s (Duke University Press, 2023), I encountered a strong resistance to the...
A Review of Evading the Patronage Trap: Interest Representation in Mexico
A Review of Evading the Patronage Trap: Interest Representation in MexicoI was asked to write a “personal review,” so here it is. This fabulous book by Brian Palmer-Rubin made me jealous. Evading the Patronage Trap: Interest Representation in Mexico is derived from...
A Review of Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability
A Review of Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability The inky blue of African-American artist Daniel Minter’s Malaga Girl, Navigation of Bones, tells a story about Malaga Island, the small preserve off the Maine coast that was once home to a Black...
A Review of Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century
A Review of Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth CenturyKaysha Corinealdi’s new book awakened old memories for me, dating to when I first arrived in Panama in 1964. As I began working for the U.S. AID mission there and attended evening classes...
A Review of For God and Liberty: Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790-1861
A Review of For God and Liberty: Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790-1861Pamela Voekel’s For God and Liberty is a tour de force. Her research spans religious and secular archives throughout the vast Catholic world of the Age of Revolution and its...
A Review of Yerba Mate: The Drink that Shaped a Nation
A Review of Yerba Mate: The Drink that Shaped a Nation On any given day, millions of South Americans—in the subcontinent and around the world—would engage in the same ritual. We heat water (making sure it doesn’t boil), prepare the mate, and sip, sip and sip. But...
A Review of Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists, 1960s-2020s
A Review of Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists, 1960s-2020s I traveled to Los Angeles from my home in Chicago in the autumn of 2017 to experience the massive, Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative, which mounted some 70 exhibitions of Latin...
A Review of Fiat Lux
A Review of Fiat Lux Paula Abramo’s Fiat Lux is a new bilingual edition of one of the most interesting poetry collections in contemporary Mexico. Abramo is part of a generation that shares “a compulsive and generalized interest” in poetry from elsewhere in Latin...
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