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 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...
A Review of The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter
A Review of The Globalization Myth: Why Regions MatterAlmost twenty years ago, Thomas Friedman claimed that globalization had made the world flat. From Shannon O’Neil’s point of view, the topography is a bit more rugged. In The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter,...
A Review of Escape a los Andes
A Review of Escape a los Andes In Escape a los Andes, journalists Raúl Peñaranda and Robert Brockmann seek to reconstruct the efforts by Mauricio Hochschild, better known as Bolivia's tin baron, to facilitate the massive entry of Jewish refugees escaping from the Nazi...
A Review of Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and the United States
A Review of Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and the United States Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and the United States by Mneesha Gellman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania...
A Review of Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velásquez and Her Father’s Quest for Justice
A Review of Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velásquez and Her Father’s Quest for Justice When I saw Claudina Isabel’s face on the cover of Victoria Sanford’s new book Textures of Terror, I held it in my hands for a long time. In 2007, I invited her...
A Review of Memory Art in the Contemporary World: Confronting Violence in the Global South by Andreas Huyssen
A Review of Memory Art in the Contemporary World: Confronting Violence in the Global South I live in a country where the past is part of the present. Not only because films such as "Argentina 1985," now nominated for an Oscar for best foreign film, recall the trial of...
A Review of Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value
A Review of Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value Three waves of global coffee regimes have influenced production landscapes extensively during the past century. Propelled by European colonialism, a First Wave (“mainstream...
A Review of Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital
A Review of Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital I should say at the outset that I was involved in the “neoliberal” reform described by César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero in his book Health in Ruins: The Capitalist...
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