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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Vernacular Sovereignties
A Review of Vernacular Sovereignties Kichwa Women for a Democracy with Diversity Manuela Lavinas Picq, a professor at the Universidad San Francisco en Quito, Ecuador, offers a rarely seen representation of Latin American Indigenous women as a collective, historical...
The Fernando Coronil Reader
A Review of The Fernando Coronil Reader In Search of a Lost Future Fernando Coronil appears on the cover of this posthumous book in a photograph taken by his daughter Mariana. Cement and a communications tower appears to distance him from his beloved plains and...
Borderland Battles
A Review of Borderland Battles Post-Peace, Fragile Borderlands When then-President Juan Manuel Santos signed a peace accord with one of the Western Hemisphere’s oldest guerrillas in 2016 (the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – FARC), optimism ran...
Exile Music
A Review of Exile Music A Testament to The Jewish Latin America Diaspora Novels about the Holocaust and Jewish survival span countries and languages and audiences of all ages. Such stories tend to be told against a European or United States background. Rarely does a...
Latin American Soldiers
A Review of Latin American Soldiers The Role of the Military in Latin America John R. Bawden’s Latin American Soldiers: Armed Forces in the Region’s History introduces readers to the study of Latin American’s Armed Forces., Bawden examines warfare and military...
Magdalena: River of Dreams
A Review of Magdalena: River of Dreams A Portrait of a River Wade Davis, a Canada-born ethnobotanist, published a widely praised book in 1996 titled One River. It chronicled the explorations and discoveries of his Harvard professor, Richard Schultes, who sought to...
The Cubans
A Review of The Cubans Close and Personal: An Unvarnished Look at Revolutionary Cuba Reading the new book The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times made me nostalgic for my years on the island as a U.S. news correspondent. I certainly didn’t miss the struggles...
Ghosts of Sheridan Circle
A Review of Ghosts of Sheridan Circle Echoes of an Assassination in Washington, DC Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet’s Terror State to Justice By Alan McPherson (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019)...
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