Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
Relocating the Sacred
Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms.
Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema
Illuminates the complex factors that have helped or hindered creative work by and about women in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry.
The Tyranny of Common Sense
Elucidates how neoliberalism rules all areas of life and operates as a form of common sense, taking Mexico as a case study.
Between Camp and Cursi
Examines how contemporary Mexican literature uses humor to contest heteronormativity.
Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future
Analyzes socially engaged art practices worldwide, linking them to decolonial struggle and critique.
Drops of Inclusivity
A critical view of race relations on the island of Puerto Rico from 1898 to 1965.
The White Indians of Mexican Cinema
Examines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico.
Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America
Examines how community leaders, writers, and political activists facing state repression in Latin America have drawn on and debated the validity of Holocaust terms to describe human rights atrocities in their own countries.
Accumulation and Subjectivity
Reconsiders key concepts in Marxist thought by examining the relationship between accumulation and subjectivity in Latin American narrative, film, and social and political theory.
The Atlantic and Africa
Traces the inner connections between the second slavery in the Americas, slavery in Africa, the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, and the "Great Transformation" of the nineteenth century world economy.
Antigone in the Americas
Argues for a decolonial reinterpretation of Sophocles’ classical tragedy, Antigone, that can help us to rethink the anti-colonial politics of militant mourning in the Americas.
Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema
Sheds light on emergent Latin America cinema that addresses the politics of environmental destruction, the unevenness of climate change consequences, and new ways of visualizing the world beyond the human.
The Other/Argentina
Argues that Jewishness is an essential element of Argentina’s self-fashioning as a modern nation.
The Other American Dilemma
Examines how Mexican Americans experienced “unofficial” Jim Crow inside and outside the American education system, and how they used the courts, Mexican Consul, and other resources to challenge that discrimination.
The Left Hand of Capital
Original and comprehensive examination of Chilean political and economic development since the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990.
Nos/Otras
Offers a timely reconsideration of the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, treating issues of multiplicitous agency, identarian politics, and the stakes of coalition building as core themes in the author's work.
Unholy Trinity
Examines representations of religion in Mexican film from the Golden Age to the early twenty-first century.
Alton's Paradox
Uses extensive archival research to explore the manifold contributions of foreign film workers to emerging film industries in Latin America from the 1930s to early 1940s.
Mexico Unmanned
Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema.
The Disintegration of Community
Analysis of this important Mexican philosopher's social, cultural, and political writings.
South of the Future
Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.
Racialized Visions
The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.
Creative Transformations
Explores the role of travel and translation in Brazilian literature and culture from the 1870s to the present.
Capitán Latinoamérica
Analyzes contemporary superhero-themed cinema, television, and web series in Latin America.
Tastemakers and Tastemaking
Considers how and why taste persists in the analysis of Mexican film and television by looking at key figures and their impact on the curation of violence.
José María Heredia in New York, 1823–1825
An English translation, with introduction and annotations, of a selection of the letters and verse that José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), wrote during his months of political exile in New York from November 1823 to August 1825.
Decolonizing American Philosophy
Wide-ranging examination of American philosophy's ties to settler colonialism and its role as both an object and a force of decolonization.
Identities in Flux
Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.
Atlantic Transformations
Calls attention to the political, economic, and cultural interdependence and interaction of global and local forces shaping the Atlantic world of the nineteenth century.
The Space of Disappearance
Examines the evolution of disappearance as a formal narrative and epistemological phenomenon in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction.
Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty
Evocative, innovative ethnography of spiritual practices and forms of queer, black, and indigenous life in the Dominican Republic.
The Immortals
Translation of the award-winning debut novel by Haitian writer Makenzy Orcel about the lives of prostitutes in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, amid the 2010 earthquake.
Argentine Intimacies
Revisits a foundational moment in Argentine history to demonstrate how the crisis of modernity opened up new possibilities for imagining kinship otherwise.
Forms of Disappointment
Analyzes parallel developments in post–Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.
Speaking Face to Face
The first in-depth analysis of the radical feminist theory and coalitional praxis of scholar-activist María Lugones.
Argentina Noir
An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000.
With a Diamond in My Shoe
The intellectual autobiography of a leading figure in the field of Latin American philosophy.
The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage
Explores the wide-ranging impact of the Mexican Revolution on global cinema and Western intellectual thought.
Affectual Erasure
Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film.
Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2
Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan and Chiapanecan Maya narratives.
Liminal Sovereignty
Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.
The Projected Nation
Investigates how Argentine cinema has represented rural spaces and urban margins from the 1910s to the present.
Blood Circuits
Examines how recent Argentine horror films engage with the legacies of dictatorship and neoliberalism.
Troubled Memories
Analyzes literary and cultural representations of iconic Mexican women to explore how these reimaginings can undermine or perpetuate gender norms in contemporary Mexico.
Adapting Gender
Demonstrates how film adaptations intersect with feminist discourse in neoliberal Mexico.
Only the People Can Save the People
Examines the egalitarian, creative, and inclusive practice of radical democracy in contemporary Venezuela.
States of Grace
Provides in-depth analyses of key moments in Brazilian utopianism, including theologico-political, matriarchal, environmental, and work-free utopias.
Citizens' Power in Latin America
Examines why some democratic innovations succeed while others fail, using Venezuela, Ecuador, and Chile as case studies.
The Trade in the Living
Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil’s emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era.
On Self-Translation
A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language.
The Afterlife of al-Andalus
The first study to undertake a wide-ranging comparison of invocations of al-Andalus across the the Arab and Hispanic worlds.
Think Like an Archipelago
A career-spanning assessment of Glissant’s work as a philosophical project.
Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 1
Analyzes contemporary Maya narratives.
Witnessing beyond the Human
Provides an innovative and theoretically rigorous approach to the subject of testimony in Latin America.
Diasporic Blackness
Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad.
US Latinization
Demonstrates how educators and policymakers should treat the intertwined nature of immigrant education and social progress in order to improve current policies and practices.
México's Nobodies
Analyzes cultural materials that grapple with gender and blackness to revise traditional interpretations of Mexicanness.
The Politics of the Second Slavery
Sheds new light on both pro and antislavery politics in the nineteenth-century Americas.
Literature and "Interregnum"
Examines literary responses to the impact of economic and technological globalization in Latin America.
Malady and Genius
Analyzes the theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature through psychoanalytic theory.
Radical Poetry
Engages in a critical reanalysis of historical Ibero-American experimental poetry in order to demonstrate how the contemporary digital vanguard owes much to this tradition.
New Frontiers of Slavery
Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century.
Contingency and Commitment
Offers the first comprehensive survey of Mexican existentialism to appear in English.
Libre Acceso
Analyzes the diverse roles and pervasive presence of disability in Latin American literature and film.
City in Common
Addresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban futures.
Are All the Women Still White?
Provides a contemporary response to such landmark volumes as All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave and This Bridge Called My Back.
Despite All Adversities
Provides sophisticated theoretical approaches to Latin American cinema and sexual culture.
Borges, the Jew
Explores Borges’ infatuation with Jewish history and culture.
A History of Political Murder in Latin America
A sweeping study of political murder in Latin America.
Imagining the Postcolonial
A comparative study of Latin American and francophone postcoloniality.
Minima Cuba
Explores the ideological and emotional trauma created after the withering of the socialist utopia in Cuba.
Carlos Estevez
Serves as a source for the exploration of many dimensions of the human experience in relation to other beings, ranging from machines and blueprints to mollusks and plants.
Desbordes
Examines the intersections of “Latino,” “queer,” and “American,” to illustrate how the categories of class, race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity are directly entangled with issues of citizenship and belonging.
The Losing War
Critical analysis of Plan Colombia, a multibillion dollar US counternarcotics initiative.
The Avowal of Difference
Discusses how theories of queer performativity, as articulated within the US Academy, are unable to capture the whole of Latino American queer subjectivity and experience.
Painting Modernism
Studies the influence of the plastic arts on the major writers of Latin American modernism.
Borges, Second Edition
Expanded edition with new chapters and updates to the translation and bibliography.
Oshun's Daughters
Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.
Taking Risks
Explores activist scholarship in relation to feminism and social movements in the Americas.
Inhabiting La Patria
Examines the work of prolific Dominican American writer Julia Alvarez.
The Everyday Atlantic
Rethinks the concepts of nation, imperialism, and globalization by examining the everyday writing of the newspaper chronicle and blog in Spain and Latin America.
Yemoja
Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.
Systems of Violence, Second Edition
Expanded new edition of an important study of the protracted violence in Colombia.
The Suspension of Seriousness
First in-depth analysis of this important Mexican philosopher’s work.
The Cold War's Last Battlefield
An engaging insider's account by a member of President Reagan's Central America policy team.
Kant's Dog
Situates Borges at the limit of philosophy and literature.
Changing Women, Changing Nation
Analyzes the literary representations of women in Salvadoran and US-Salvadoran narratives since 1980.
Documents in Crisis
Examines the theory and practice of nonfiction narrative literature in twentieth-century Mexico.
Becoming an Ancestor
A striking look at the death rituals of an indigenous community in North America.
Painting Borges
A provocative examination of the artistic interpretation of twelve of Borges’s most famous stories.
Reframing the Practice of Philosophy
Reflections by leading Latin American and African American philosophers on their identity within the field of philosophy.
¡VIVA!
Compelling case studies of groups in Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, the United States, and Canada using the arts for education, community development, and social movement building.
Cuban-American Literature and Art
Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.
Burning Darkness
Encourages a deep reading of a selection of essential Spanish films.
Images of Thought
Explores the relationship between philosophy and art through the work of Cuban American artist Carlos Estévez.
Identity, Memory, and Diaspora
Offers a detailed picture of the lives of Cuban Americans through interviews with artists, writers, and philosophers.
Cuba
Internationally renowned scholars address the Cuban diaspora from multiple perspectives and locations.
Global Fragments
Philosophical explorations of the processes of globalization, particularly in the context of Latin America.
Social Movements and Free-Market Capitalism in Latin America
Explores how privatization of state-owned telephone companies led to new consumer movements in Latin America.
Puerto Rico under Colonial Rule
Essays on human rights in Puerto Rico during the twentieth century.