Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
Adapting Gender
Demonstrates how film adaptations intersect with feminist discourse in neoliberal Mexico.
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.
On Self-Translation
A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language.
Think Like an Archipelago
A career-spanning assessment of Glissant’s work as a philosophical project.
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.
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.
México's Nobodies
Analyzes cultural materials that grapple with gender and blackness to revise traditional interpretations of Mexicanness.
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.
The Politics of the Second Slavery
Sheds new light on both pro and antislavery politics in the nineteenth-century Americas.
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.
Literature and "Interregnum"
Examines literary responses to the impact of economic and technological globalization in Latin America.
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.
New Frontiers of Slavery
Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century.
Libre Acceso
Analyzes the diverse roles and pervasive presence of disability in Latin American literature and film.
Contingency and Commitment
Offers the first comprehensive survey of Mexican existentialism to appear in English.
Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America, Third Edition
Uses both historical and contemporary case studies to examine how race and ethnicity affect the places we live, work, and visit. .
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.