Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies

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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

By Arturo Arias
Subjects: Literature

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

Edited by Spencer Salas & Pedro R. Portes
Subjects: Education

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.

Imagining the Postcolonial

By Jaime Hanneken
Subjects: Literature

A comparative study of Latin American and francophone postcoloniality.