Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
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.
Life Streams
Incisive exploration of the work of Cuban-American artist Alberto Rey.
Systems of Violence, Second Edition
Expanded new edition of an important study of the protracted violence in Colombia.
The Cold War's Last Battlefield
An engaging insider's account by a member of President Reagan's Central America policy team.
The Suspension of Seriousness
First in-depth analysis of this important Mexican philosopher’s work.
Changing Women, Changing Nation
Analyzes the literary representations of women in Salvadoran and US-Salvadoran narratives since 1980.
Kant's Dog
Situates Borges at the limit of philosophy and literature.
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.
Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America, Second Edition
A comprehensive assessment of how race and ethnicity affect the places we live, work, and visit.
Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America
A comprehensive assessment of how race and ethnicity affect the places we live, work, and visit.
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.
The Censorship Files
Investigates the role played by censorship in the Spanish-language publishing industry, which led to the Latin American Boom literature of the 1960s and 1970s.
Reading Borges after Benjamin
Together with original readings of some of Benjamin’s finest essays, this book examines a series of Borges’s works as allegories of Argentine modernity.
Puerto Rico under Colonial Rule
Essays on human rights in Puerto Rico during the twentieth century.
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.
Jamaica Kincaid
Offers a new perspective on the psychological and affective dynamics of Jamaica Kincaid’s fiction and nonfiction.
The Role of History in Latin American Philosophy
Argues that there are original positions to be found in the work of Latin American philosophers.
Between Argentines and Arabs
Examines the presence of Arabs and the Arab world in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Argentine literature by juxtaposing works by Argentines of European descent and those written by Arab immigrants in Argentina.
Linking the Americas
Provides a comparative look at women's texts across the Americas.
Redreaming America
Pursues an inquiry into the cultural and linguistic dissonances that Spanish creates in the United States.
Latin American Women On/In Stages
Compares plays by Latin American women dramatists born after 1945.
Humoring Resistance
Analyzes the explosive connections among strategic uses of humor, women's bodies, and resistance in fiction by Latin American women writers.
A Geography of Hard Times
Unravels the rich complexities of the colonial travel experience.
The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle
Diverse perspectives on the “chronicle”as a literary genre and socio-cultural practice.
Systems of Violence
Examines the conditions that have led to protracted violence in Colombia.
From Pirates to Drug Lords
Examines Caribbean countries' impact on the U. S. and the world and how they have consolidated their democracies, advanced prosperity, and maintained peace through collective security and international cooperation.
Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion
By examining the ways that Catholic activists responded to political violence in El Salvador during the 1970s and 1980s, this book documents the beliefs and history of an important religious community, and explores the nature of religion's role in political ideology and mobilization.
Subject People and Colonial Discourses
This book rethinks the social processes that violently refashioned Puerto Rican society in the first half of the twentieth century. Santiago-Valles explores how the new regime's socio-economic, political, ...
Cultural Identity and Social Liberation in Latin American Thought
This book defines the relationship between liberation and cultural identity in the Latin American social reality--from a historically rooted, critical philosophy. Schutte explores the connections between ...
The Catholic Church and Social Change in Nicaragua
This book presents an in-depth, uniquely historical perspective on Nicaragua, focusing on the key role of the Catholic Church in the political, social, and religious issues that confront this country ...
Philosophy and Literature in Latin America
Philosophy and Literature in Latin America presents a unique and original view of the current state of development in Latin America of two disciplines that are at the core of the humanities. Divided into ...
Jesuit Ranches and the Agrarian Development of Colonial Argentina, 1650-1767
Jesuit Ranches and the Agrarian Development of Colonial Argentina, 1650-1767, is the last book in a trilogy that examines Jesuit economic activity in three major geographic regions of colonial Spanish ...
Farm and Factory
This second volume of Nicholas P. Cushner's economic study of colonial Latin America describes and analyzes the unique relationship between the textile mill and farm in Interandine Quito. Cushner shows ...