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 Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border
A Review of Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border Of the millions of firearms produced in the United States annually, tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands are smuggled south to Mexico, Brown University professor Ieva Jusionyte writes in Exit...
A Review of Alberto Edwards: Profeta de la dictadura en Chile by Rafael Sagredo Baeza
A Review of Alberto Edwards: Profeta de la dictadura en Chile Chile is often cited as a country of strong democratic traditions and institutions. They can be broken, however, as shown by the notorious civil-military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). And...
A Review of Labor Power and Strategy
A Review of Labor Power and StrategyIntended as a “back pocket reference and discussion tool” to help a new generation of labor organizers run smart, strategic, effective campaigns, Labor Power and Strategy revolves around an interview with John Womack, the Harvard...
A Review of Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World
A Review of Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern WorldMarcia Stephenson’s Llamas beyond the Andes is about humans making use of another animal. With a dustjacket image of Llinda Llee Llama riding in the back of an automobile in...
A Review of Born in Blood and Fire
From Student ViewsEaston Bevel is a Master’s student at Harvard Extension School, where he is studying International Relations. His work focuses on the intersection of Religion and International Relations. He serves as an officer in the U.S. Air Force and holds...
A Review of El populismo en América Latina. La pieza que falta para comprender un fenómeno global
A Review of El populismo en América Latina. La pieza que falta para comprender un fenómeno globalIn 1946, during a campaign event in Argentina, then-candidate for president Juan Domingo Perón formulated a slogan, "Braden or Perón,” with which he could effectively...
A Review of Aaron Copland in Latin America: Music and Cultural Politics
A Review of Aaron Copland in Latin America: Music and Cultural Politics In Aaron Copland in Latin America: Music and Cultural Politics, Carol Hess provides a nuanced exploration of the Brooklyn-born composer and conductor Aaron Copland (1900–1990), who served as a...
A Review of San Fernando: Última Parada, Viaje al crimen autorizado en Tamaulipas
A Review of San Fernando: Última Parada, Viaje al crimen autorizado en TamaulipasOne of Mexico’s best investigative journalists, Marcela Turati, takes readers to terrorized and traumatized San Fernando, a town known for dozens of mass graves, and exposes the depths of...
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