If anyone had any doubts that Cubans were treated exceptionally well by the United States immigration and welfare authorities, relative to other immigrant groups and even relative to …
James Loxton’s Conservative Party-Building in Latin America: Authoritarian Inheritance and Counterrevolutionary Struggle makes very important, original contributions to the study of…
During the last few decades, decentralization processes—the transference of power, resources and responsibilities from national to subnational governments—
Adriana Chira’s Patchwork Freedoms is a refreshening contribution to the historiography of the African Diaspora in Latin America offering both genuinely new data and new interpretations.
A few years ago, I was in the early phases of developing a new Black history course. I spent months contemplating the three pillars I wanted to prioritize for the class: the historical trends and transformations to cover…
Much has been written about the treacherous crossing into the United States from Mexico over the unforgiving Sonoran Desert of northern Mexico and Arizona.
David Parker’s book on dueling in Uruguay was worth the wait. Along with his work on the history of the middle classes in Latin America, in the last two decades Parker had published several articles and book chapters that advanced our knowledge about the modern adoption of that violent ritual in the region.
One of Guatemala’s most illustrious thinkers and activists, Ricardo Falla, SJ, has lived through considerable historical transformations, including his own.
In Sujetos del deseo, Chilean poet and translator Soledad Marambio posits that literary translators—so often considered an almost spectral presence in their silent rendering of a source text into a target language—can be a force of resistance and cultural mediators between Latin America and the United States.
Richard Price never explains why he chose the title Inside/Outside for his engaging memoir, but it fits perfectly in at least two respects.
