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Publications are organized by year and last name and are updated as information becomes available to us.

2013

Stites Mor, Jessica, ed.
Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America
University of Wisconsin Press

Walker, Louise
Waking from the Dream: Mexico's Middle Classes after 1968
Stanford University Press

2012

Courtis, Corina
Discriminación étnico-racial. Discursos públicos y experiencias cotidianas: Un estudio centrado en la colectividad coreana
Buenos Aires: Editorial del Puerto

DeLugan, Robin Maria
Reimagining National Belonging: Post-Civil War El Salvador in a Global Context
University of Arizona Press

McConahay, Mary Jo
Maya Roads, One Woman's Journey Among the People of the Rainforest
Chicago Review Press

Plankey-Videla, Nancy
We Are in This Dance Together: Gender, Power, and Globalization in a Mexican Garment Firm
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press

Rocha, Carolina & Georgia Seminet, eds.
Representing History, Class and Gender in Spain and Latin America. Children and Adolescents in Film
Palgrave

Rocha, Carolina
Masculinities in Contemporary Argentine Popular Cinema
Palgrave

Roth, Wendy D.
Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Simon, Jean-Marie
Guatemala: eterna primavera, eterna tiranía
Print Studio, 272 pages including 204 color photos

Valdés, Vanessa
Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora
Albany: SUNY Press

Valdés, Vanessa
The Future Is Now: A New Look at African Diaspora Studies
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

2011

Drinot, Paulo
The Allure of Labor: Workers, Race, and the Making of the Peruvian State
Durham and London: Duke University Press

González, Atilio Roque
Cine latinoamericano y nuevas tecnologías
Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Habana

Heine, Jorge
The Dark Side of Globalization (with Ramesh Thakur)
Tokyo: United Nations University Press

Heine, Jorge
Fixing Haiti: MINUSTAH and Beyond (with Andrew F. Cooper)
Tokyo: United Nations University Press

Madrid, Alejandro L., ed.
Transnational Encounters. Music and Performance at the U.S.-Mexico Border
New York: Oxford University Press

Rêgo, Cacilda & Rocha, Carolina eds.
New Trends in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema
Intellect

Santos, Alessandra S. & Kim Beauchesne, eds.
The Utopian Impulse in Latin America
Palgrave Macmillan

Sawyer, W. Charles
Latin American Economic Development (with Javier A. Reyes)
London: Routledge

Seligson, Mitchell
Mitchell Seligson, Centennial Professor of Political Science and director of the Latin American Public Opinion Project, has been confirmed to the General Assembly of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIHR). The IIHR, based in San Jose, Costa Rica, is an autonomous international institution and one of the world’s leading centers for teaching and academic research on human rights, applying a multidisciplinary approach with an emphasis on the problems of the Americas.

Wallace, Scott
The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
New York: Crown

White, Steven F.
Arando el aire: la ecología en la poesía y la música de Nicaragua
Managua: 400 Elefantes

2010

Alcalde, M. Cristina
The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru
Vanderbilt University Press

Anderson, Leslie E.
Social Capital in Developing Democracies: Nicaragua and Argentina Compared
Cambridge University Press

Arias, Enrique Desmond & Goldstein, Daniel M., eds.
Violent Democracies in Latin America
Duke University Press

Babb, Florence E.
The Tourism Encounter: Fashioning Latin American Nations & Histories
Stanford University Press

Blaser, Mario
Story Telling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond
Duke University Press

Borzutzky, Silvia & Gregory B. Weeks, eds.
The Bachelet Government
University Press of Florida

Bretos, Miguel A.
Matanzas: The Cuba Nobody Knows
University Press of Florida

Brookfield, S. D. & John D. Holst
Radicalizing Learning: Adult Education for a Just World
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

Burns, Kathryn
Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru
Duke University Press

Cameron, Maxwell A. & Eric Hershberg, eds.
Latin America’s Left Turns: Politics, Policies and Trajectories of Change

Chamosa, Oscar
The Argentine Folklore Movement: Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers, and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900-1955
The University of Arizona Press

Collier, Ruth Berins/ Handlin, Samuel, eds.
Reorganizing Popular Politics: Participation and the New Interest Regime in Latin America
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Collins, Cath
Post-Transitional Justice: Human Rights Trials in Chile and El Salvador
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Corr, Rachel
Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes
The University of Arizona Press

Corrales, Javier/ Pecheny, Mario
The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America: A reader on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights
University of Pittsburgh Press

Couso, Javier/ Huneeus, Alexandra/ Sieder Rachel, eds.
Cultures of Legality: Judicialization and Political Activism in Latin America
Cambridge University Press

Dávila, Jerry
Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the challenge of African Decolonization, 1950-1980
Duke University Press

De La Dehesa, Rafael
Queering the Public Shpere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies
Duke University Press

de la Torre, Carlos
Populist Seduction in Latin America
Ohio University Press/ Swallow Press

de Santana Pinho, Patricia
Mama Africa: Reinventing Blackness in Bahia
Duke University Press

Díaz, Mónica
Indigenous Writings from the Convent: Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico
The University of Arizona Press

Domínguez-Ruvalcaba, Héctor/ Corona, Ignacio, eds.
Gender Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Media Representation and Public Response
The University of Arizona Press

Dorfman, Ariel
The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds
Duke University Press

Dosh, Paul; Photographs by: Lerager, James
Demanding the Land: Urban Popular Movements in Peru and Ecuador, 1990-2005
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Drinot, Paulo, ed.
Che’s Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America
Durham: Duke University Press

Dueñas, Alcira
Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City": Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru
University Press of Colorado

Eiss, Paul K.
In the Name of El Pueblo: Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán
Duke University Press

Enríquez, Laura J.
Reactions to the Market: Small Farmers in the Economic Reshaping of Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia, and China
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Erlick, June Carolyn
A Gringa in Bogotá: Living Colombia's Invisible War
University of Texas Press

Ewig, Christina
Second-Wave Neoliberalism: Gender, Race, and Health Sector Reform in Peru
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Fernandes, Sujatha
Who Can Stop the Drums?: Urban Social Movements in Chávez's Venezuela
Duke University Press

Foote, Nicola/ Harder Horst, René D., eds.
Military Struggle and Identity Formation in Latin America: Race, Nation, and Community During the Liberal Period
University Press of Florida

Fregoso, Rosa-Linda/ Bejarano, Cynthia, eds.; Preface by: Lagarde, Marcela/ De los Ríos
Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas
Duke University Press

Gates, Leslies C.
Electing Chávez: The Business of Anti-Neoliberal Politics in Venezuela
University of Pittsburgh Press

González, Aníbal
Love and Politics in the Contemporary Spanish American Novel
University of Texas Press

Gootenberg, Paul/ Reygadas, Luis, eds.; Foreword by: Hershberg, Eric
Indelible Inequalities I Latin America: Insights for History, Politics, and Culture
Duke University Press

Grandin, Greg/ Joseph, Gilbert M., eds.
A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence During Latin America's Long Cold War
Duke University Press

Green, James N.
We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States
Duke University Press

Gudmundson, Lowell & Justin Wolfe, eds.
Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place
Duke University Press

Guridy, Frank Andre
Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow
University of North Carolina Press

Gutiérrez, Laura G.
Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage
University of Texas Press

Haglund, Ladawn
Limiting Resources: Market-Led Reform and the Transformation of Public Goods
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Henríquez Consalvi, Carlos (Santiago); Translated by: Nagle, Charles Leo/ Prince, A.L. (Bill); Introduction by: Ching, Erik
Broadcasting the Civil War in El Salvador: A Memoir of Guerrilla Radio
University of Texas Press

Hernández, Consuelo
Voces y pespectivas en la poesía latinoamericana del siglo XX
Madrid: Visor

Holzner, Claudio A.
Poverty of Democracy: The Institutional Roots of Political Participation in Mexico
University of Pittsburgh Press

Hutchins, Frank/ Wilson Patrick C., eds.
Editing Eden: A Reconsideration of Identity, Politics, and Place in Amazonia
University of Nebraska Press

Kampwirth, Karen, ed.
Gender and Populism in Latin America: Passionate Politics
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Karush,Matthew B./ Chamosa, Oscar, eds.
The New Cultural History of Peronism: Power and Identity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Argentina
Duke University Press

Kiddle, Amelia M./ Muñoz María L. O., eds.; Foreword by Cárdenas, Cuauhtémoc
Populism in 20th Century Mexico: The Presidencies of Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría
The University of Arizona Press

López, Rick A.
Crafting Mexico: Intellectuals, Artisans, and the State after the Revolution
Duke University Press

Lovell, W. George
A Beuty That Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala (Second Revised Edition)
University of Texas Press

Loveman, Brian, ed.
Adictos al Fracaso: Politicas de Seguridad de Estados Unidos en America Latina y la Region Andina
Santiago, Chile: Lom Ediciones

Loveman, Brian
No Higher Law: American Foreign Policy and the Western Hemisphere since 1776
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

Manzetti, Luigi
Neoliberalism, Accountability, and Reform Failures in Emerging Markets: Eastern Europe, Russia, Argentina, and Chile in Comparative Perspective
The Pennsylvania State University Press

McGee Deutsch, Sandra
Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation: A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880-1955
Duke University Press

Moodie, Ellen
El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace: Crime, Uncertainty and the Transition to Democracy
University of Pennsylvania Press

Morris, Stephen D./ Blake, Charles, eds.
Corruption & Democracy in Latin America: National & Regional Dynamics
Lynne Rienner Publishers

Navarro, Aaron W.
Political Intelligence and the Creation of Modern Mexico 1938-1954
The Pennsylvania State University Press

O'Donnell, Guillermo
Democracy, Agency, and The State: Theory with Comparative Intent
Oxford University Press

O'Hara, Matthew D.
A Flock Divided: Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico, 1749-1857
Duke University Press

O'Neill, Kevin Lewis
City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala
University of California Press

Overmyer-Velázquez, Rebecca
Folkloric Poverty: Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Mexico
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Penna Sattamini, Lina; Edited by: Green, James N.; Epilogue by: Arruda, Marcos P.S.
A Mother's Cry: A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship
Duke University Press

Perez Rosario, Vanessa, ed.
Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement
Palgrave Macmillan

Perez, Gina/ Guridy, Frank/ Burgos, Adrian, eds.
Beyond El Barrio: Everyday Life in Latina/o America
NYU Press

Perramond, Eric P.
Political Ecologies of Cattle Ranching in Northern Mexico: Private Revolutions
The University of Arizona Press

Rankin, Monica A.
México, la Patria!: Propaganda and Production During World War II
University of Nebraska Press

Rocha, Carolina & Elizabeth Montes Garces, eds.
Violence in Argentine Literature and Film.
Calgary University Press

Root, Regina
Couture and Consensus: Fashion and Politics in Postcolonial Argentina
University of Minnesota

Ruiz Medrano, Ethelia/ Kellog Susan,eds.
Negotiation Within Domination: New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State
University Press of Colorado

Ruiz Medrano, Ethelia; Translated by: Davidson, Russ
Mexico's Indigenous Communities: Their Lands and Histories, 1500-2010
University Press of Colorado

Salto, Graciela Nélida
Memorias del silencio: literaturas en el Caribe y Centroamérica.
Buenos Aires: Corregidor

Salvatore, Ricardo D./ Coatsworth John H./ Challú Amílcar E., eds.
Living Standards in Latin American History: Heigh, Welfare, and Development, 1750-2000
DRCLAS/ Harvard University

Schroeder, Susan, Anne J. Cruz, Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera, Cristián, David E. Tavárez, eds.
Chimalpahin's Conquest: A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco López de Gómara's/ La Conquista de México
Stanford University Press

Smale, Robert L.
"I Sweat the Flavor of Tin": Labor Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia
University of Pittsburgh Press

Stemplowski, Ryszard ed.
Europe - Latin America: Looking at Each Other?
Warszawa, Poland: Polish Institute of International Affairs

Stern, Steve J.
Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989-2006
Duke University Press

Stock, Ann Marie
On Location in Cuba: Steet Filmmaking During Times of Transition
University of North Carolina Press

Thomas, Lorrin
Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twenthieth-Century New York City
The University of Chicago Press

Townsend, Camilla, ed.; Essay by: Lockhart, James
Here in This Years: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley
Stanford University Press

Ungar, Mark
Policing Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press

Virgilio, Marcos
São Paulo, 1946-1957: Representações da cidade na música popular
São Paulo: Biblioteca 24x7

Ward, Thomas, ed.
El porvenir nos debe una victoria. La insólita modernidad de Manuel González Prada
Lima: Red para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales en el Perú

Wolford, Wendy
This Land is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land
Duke University Press

2009

Anderson, Mark
Black and Indigenous: Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras
University of Minnesota Press

Andolina, Robert ; Laurie, Nina; and Radcliffe, Sarah A.
Indigenous Development in The Andes: Culture, Power, and Transnationalism
Duke University Press

Araujo, Ana Lucia, ed.
Living History: Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery
Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Arteaga Botello, Nelson
Sociedad de la Vigilancia en el Sur-Global: Mirando América Latina
Editoria Miguel Angel Porrúa

Auyero, Javier/ Swistun, Débora Alejandra
Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown
Oxford University Press

Bailey, Stanley R.
Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil
Stanford University Press

Bennett, Herman L.
Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico
Indiana University Press

Bergman, Marcelo
Tax Evasion & the Rule of Law in Latin America: The Political Culture of Cheating and Compliance in Argentina and Chile
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Biron, Rebecca E., ed.
The Urban Scene in Latin America: City/Art
Duke University Press

Blake, Charles/ Morris, Stephen D., eds.
Corruption & Democracy in Latin America
University of Pittsburgh Press

Borinsky, Alicia; Translated by: Franzen, Cola/ Borinsky, Alicia
Frivolous Women and Other Sinners: Frívolas y Pecadoras
Swan Isle Press

Borland, Katherine & Sydney Hutchinson, Editors.
Special Issue: Latin American Dance in Transnational Contexts
Journal of American Folklore 122 (486) Fall

Bouvier, Virginia
Colombia: Building Peace in a Time of War
Washington, DC: U.S. Institute of Peace

Burt, Jo-Marie
Violencia y autoritarismo en el Perú: Entre la sombra de Sendero y la dictadura de Fujimori

Cabezas, Amalia L.
Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and The Dominican Republic
Temple University Press

Cameron, John
Struggles for Local Democracy in the Andes
First Forum Press

Cantú, Lionel; Edited by: Naples Nancy A./ Vidal-Ortiz, Salvador
The Sexuality of Migration: border Crossing and Mexican Immigrant Men
NYU Press

Chasteen, John Charles
Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence
Oxford University Press

Cornelius, Wayne A./ Fitzgerald, David/ Lewin Fischer, Pedro/ Muse-Orlinoff, Leah, eds.
Mexican Migration and the U.S. Economic Crisis: A Transnational Perspective
Lynne Rienner Publishers

Coronado, Jorge
The Andes Imagined: Indigenismo, Society, and Modernity
University of Pittsburgh Press

Davis, Darién J.
White Face, Black Mask: Africaneity and the Early Social History of Popular Music in Brazil

Dealtry, Giovanna
No fio da navalha - malandragem na literatura e no samba

Deere, Carmen Diana & Royce, Frederick S., eds.
Rural Social Movements in Latin America: Organizing for Sustainable Livelihoods
University Press of Florida

del Valle-Escalante, Emilio
Maya Nationalisms and Postcolonial Challenges in Guatemala: Coloniality, Modernity and Identity Politics

Del Vecchio, Angelo & Carla Dieguez
As pesquisas sobre padrão de vida dos trabalhadores da Cidade de São Paulo. Horace Davis e Samuel Lowrie, pioneiros da sociologia aplicada no Brasil

Derby, Lauren
The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo
Duke University Press

Domínguez, Jorge I./ Lawson, Chappell/ Moreno, Alejandro, eds.
Consolidating Mexico's Democracy: The 2006 Presidential Campaign in Comparative Perspective
The Johns Hopkins University Press

Drake, Paul W.
Between Tyranny and Anarchy: A History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006
Stanford University Press

Dunn, Timothy J.
Blockading the Border and Human Rights: The El Paso Operation That Remade Immigration Enforcement
University of Texas Press

Egan, Linda & Mary K. Long eds.
Mexico Reading the United States
Vanderbilt University Press

Espinosa, Mariola
Epidemic Invasions: Yellow Fever and the Limits of Cuban Independence, 1878-1930
The University of Chicago Press

Ferro, Silvia Lilian
La Agricultura Familiar en Argentina. Nuevos enfoques para problemas viejos
Instituto de Cultura de la Provincia del Chaco.Resistencia, Argentina

Frundt, Henry J.
Fair Bananas!: Farmers, Workers, and Consumers Strive to Change an Industry
The University of Arizona Press

Gandolfo, Daniella
The City at its Limits: Taboo, Transgression, and Urban Renewal in Lima
The University of Chicago Press

Gómez, Leila
Iluminados y Tránsfugas. Relatos de Viajeros y Ficciones Nacionales en Argentina, Paraguay, y Perú
Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert

Goodale, Mark
Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism
Stanford University Press

Gootenberg, Paul
Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug
University of North Carolina Press

Green, James N.
Apesar de Vocês: Oposição á Ditadura Brasileira nos Estados Unidos, 1964-1985
Editora Schwarz Ltda.

Greet, Michele
Beyond National Identity: Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist Strategy in Andean Art, 1920-1960
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Gustafson, Bret
New Languages of The State: Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia
Duke University Press

Gutiérrez, Ramón A./ Zavella Patricia, eds.
Mexicans in California: Transformation and Challenges
University of Illinois Press

Guy, Donna J.
Women Build the Welfare State: Performing Charity and Creating Rights in Argentina, 1880-1955
Duke University Press

Heine, Jorge
Which Way Latin America? Hemispheric Politics Meet Globalization (with Andrew F. Cooper)
Tokyo: United Nations University Press

Heredia, Juanita
Transnational Latina Narratives in the Twenty-first Century: The Politics of Gender, Race and Migrations
Palgrave Macmillan

Hooker, Juliet
Race and the Politics of Solidarity
Oxford University Press

Houston, Stephen/ Brittenham, Claudia/ Mesick,Cassandra/ Tokovinine, Alexandre/ Warinner, Chritina
Veiled Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color
University of Texas Press

Howe, James
Chiefs Scribes & Ethnographers: Kuna Culture from Inside and Out
University of Texas Press

Hristov, Jasmin
Blood & Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia
Ohio University Press/ Swallow Press

Kaempfer, Alvaro
Relatos de soberanía, cohesión y emancipación: las declaraciones de Independencia deArgentina (1816), Chile (1818) y Brasil (1822)

La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence
Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in The Diaspora
University of Minnesota Press

Langer, Erick D.
Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree: Frabcuscab Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830-1949
Duke University Press

Llanos M., Bernardita
Passionate Sujects/ Split Subjects in Twentieth-Century Literature in Chile: Brunet, Bombal and Eltit
Associated University Presses/ Bucknell University Press

Lobo, Gregory J
Colombia: Algo Diferente de una Nación
Uniandes-Ceso

Lorini, Alessandra/ Basosi, Duccio, eds.
Cuba in the World, the World in Cuba: Essays on Cuban History, Politics and Culture
Firenze University Press

Martínez Peláez, Severo; Translated by: Lovell, W.George/ Neve, Susan M; Edited and Introduced by: Lutz, Christopher H./ Lovell, W.George
La Patria del Criollo: An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala
Duke University Press

Mayer, Enrique
Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform
Duke University Press

McGillivray, Gillian
Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868-1959
Duke University Press

McSherry, J. Patrice
Los Estados Depredadores: La Operación Cóndor y la Guerra Encubierta en América Latina
(updated and translated, originally published in 2005)

Menendes Motta, Márcia Maria
Direito à Terra no Brasil: A Gestação do Conflicto 1795-1824
Alameda Casa Editorial

Merrill, Dennis
Negotiating Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Latin America
University of North Carolina Press

Millett, Holmes, Pérez, editors
Latin American Democracy: Emerging Reality or Endangered Species?
New York, New York: Routledge Publishers

Morris, Stephen D.
Political Corruption in Mexico: The Impact of Democratization
Lynne Rienner Publishers

Murillo, María Victoria
Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities
Cambridge University Press

Nelson, Diane M.
Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala
Duke University Press

Nelson, Roy C.
Harnessing Globalization: The Promotion of Nontraditional Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Ortiz, Patricio R.
Indigenous Knowledge, Education and Ethnic Identity: An Ethnography of an Intercultural Bilingual Education Program in a Mapuche School in Chile
Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM-Verlag

Perrone, Charles A.
Brazil, Lyric, and the Americas
University Press of Florida

Pieper Mooney, Jadwiga E.
The Politics of Motherhood: Maternity and Women's Rights in Twentieth-Century Chile
University of Pittsburgh Press

Policzer, Pablo
The Rise and Fall of Repression in Chile
University of Notre Dame Press, Helen Kellogg Institute of International Studies Series

Portela, M. Edurne
Displaced Memories: The Poetics of Trauma in Argentine Women's Writings
Bucknell University Press

Rashkin, Elissa
The Stridentist Movement in Mexico: The Avant-Garde and Cultural Change in the 1920s

Reiter, Bernd/ Mitchell, Gladys L., eds.
Brazil's New Racial Politics
Lynne Rienner Publishers

Rivera, Juan M./ Whiteford, Scott/ Chávez, Manuel, eds.
NAFTA and the Campesinos: The Impact of NAFTA on Small-Scale Agricultural Producers in Mexico and the Prospects for Change
University of Scranton Press

Rodríguez, Ana Patricia
Dividing the Isthmus: Central American Transnational Histories, Literatures and Cultures
University of Texas Press

Rodríguez, Ileana
Liberalism at its Limits: Crime and Terror in the Latin American Cultural Text
University of Pittsburgh Press

Roitman, Karem
Race, Ethnicity and Power in Ecuador: The Manipulation of Mestizaje
First Forum Press

Rousseau, Stéphanie
Women’s Citizenship in Peru. The Paradoxes of Neopopulism in Latin America
New York: Palgrave

Sadlier, Darlene J., ed.
Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment: Latin American Melodrama
University of Illinois Press

Sánchez Prado, Ignacio M.
Naciones Intelectuales: Las Fundaciones de la Modernidad Literaria Mexicana (1917-1959)
Purdue University Press

Sanford, Victoria
La Masacre de Panzós: Etnicidad, Tierra y Violencia en Guatemala
F & G Editores

Shayne, Julie
They Used to Call Us Witches: Chilean Exiles, Culture, and Feminism
Lexington Books

Silva, Eduardo
Challenging Neoliberalism in Latin America
Cambridge University Press

Sklodowska, Elzbieta
Espectros y espejismos: Haití en el imaginario cubano
Frankfurt-Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert

Smith, William C., ed.
Latin American Democratic Transformations: Institutions, Actors, and Processes
Wiley-Blackwell

Soto Laveaga, Gabriela
Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill
Duke University Press

Sovik, Liv
Aqui Ninguém é Branco
Aeroplano Editora

Spener, David
Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border
Cornell University Press

Spenser, Daniela
Los Primeros Tropiezos de la Internacional Comunista en México
CIESAS

Stemplowski, Ryszard, ed.
On the State of Latin American States. Approaching the Bicentenary
Kraków, Poland: Oficyna Wydawnicza AFM

Stock, Ann Marie
On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition
University of North Carolina Press

Sznajder, Mario/ Roniger, Luis
The Politics of Exile in Latin America
Cambridge University Press

Taylor, Analisa
Indigeneity in the Mexican Cultural Imagination: Thresholds of Belonging
The University of Arizona Press

Tinker Salas, Miguel
The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela
Duke University Press

Vargas, Lucila
Latina Teens, Migration, and Popular Culture
Peter Lang Publishing

Veigel, Klaus Friedrich
Dictatorship, Democracy, and Globalization: Argentina and the Cost of Paralysis, 1973-2001
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Ward, Thomas
Buscando la nación peruana
Lima: Editorial Horizonte

White, Steven F.
El mundo más que humano en la poesía de Pablo Antonio Cuadra: un estudio ecocrítico
Managua: Fundación PAC

Woodard, James P.
A Place in Politics: São Paulo, Brazil, from Seigneurial Republicanism to Regionalist Revolt
Duke University Press

Wright-Rios, Edward
Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887-1934
Duke University Press

Ximena de la Barra & Richard A. Dello Buono
Latin America after the Neoliberal Debacle: Another Region is Possible
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Yankelevich, Pablo
Ráfagas de un Exilio: Argentinos en México, 1974-1983
El Colegio de México

2008

Ablard, Jonathan D.
Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State 1880-1983
Ohio University Press/ Swallow Press

Aguilar, Mario I.
The History and Politics of Latin American Theology, Volume 2: Theology and Civil Society
SCM-Canterbury Press

Almeida, Paul D.
Waves of Protest: Popular Struggle in El Salvador, 1925-2005
University of Minnesota Press

Araujo, Ana Lucia
Romantisme tropical: l'aventure illustrée d'un peintre français au Brésil
Quebec, Presses de l'Université Laval

Arias , Arturo
Receives the Miguel Ángel Asturias National Prize in Literature 2008, Guatemala’s most prestigious literary award. Dedicated to the memory of the former Guatemalan writer, statesman, and Nobel winner, the one-time only award recognizes a writer's body of work.

Arias, Santa & Barney Warf, eds.
The Spatial Turn: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
London: Routledge

Arias, Santa & Eyda Merediz, eds.
Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Bartolome de las Casas
NY: MLA

Auyero, Javier/ Swistun, Débora Alejandra
Inflamable: Etudio del Sufrimiento Ambiental
Editorial Paidós

Baklanoff, Eric N. & Edward Moseley, editors
Yucatán in an Era of Globalization
The University of Alabama Press

Bank Muñoz, Carolina
Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and The United States
Cornell University Press

Becker, Marc
Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements
Duke University Press

Benavides, O. Hugo
Drugs, Thugs, and Divas: Telenovelas and Narco-Dramas in Latin America
University of Texas Press

Buchenau, Jürgen
Mexican Mosaic: A Brief History of Mexico
Harlan Davidson, Inc.

Carruyo, Light
Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests: Rural Encounters with Gender, Ecotourism, and International Aid in the Dominican Republic
Penn State University Press

Chomsky, Aviva
Linked Labor Stories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class
Duke University Press

de la Fuente, Alejandro
Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century
University of North Carolina Press

Delpar, Helen
Looking South: The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975
University of Alabama Press

Erikson, Daniel P.
The Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, The United States, and the Next Revolution
Bloomsbury Press

Escobar, Arturo
Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes
Duke University Press

Ferro, Silvia Lilian
Género y Propiedad Rural
PROINDER, Secretaria de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Alimentación, Buenos Aires Argentina

Fischer, María Luisa
Neruda: Contrucción y legados de una figura cultural
Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universitaria

Fitzgerald, David
A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages its Migration
University of California Press

Gómez-Barris, Macarena
Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile
University of California Press

Gootenberg, Paul
Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug
University of North Carolina Press

Gotkowitz, Laura
A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952
Duke University Press

Graff Zivin, Erin
The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary
Duke University Press

Gray, Alexander I. & Antoni Kapcia
The Changing Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society
University Press of Florida

Guimarães, Cardoso, Elias, Purcell
Mercados de Trabalho e Oportunidades. Reestruturação Econômica, Mudança Ocupacional e Desigualdade na Inglaterra e no Brasil
Rio de Janeiro: Editora da FGV

Hale, Charles A.
Emilio Rabasa and the Survival of Profirian Liberalism: the Man, his Career, and his Ideas, 1856-1930
Stanford University Press

Hearn, Adrian H.
Cuba: Religion, Social Capital, and Development
Duke University Press

Joseph, Gilbert M. & Daniela Spenser, editors
In from the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War
Duke University Press

Kaminsky, Amy K.
Argentina: Stories for a Nation
University of Minnesota Press

Kelly, Patty
Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel
University of California Press

Lazar, Sian
El Alto, Rebel City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia
Duke University Press

Leinaweaver, Jessaca B.
The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru
Duke University Press

Leiva, Fernando Ignacio
Latin American Neostructuralism: the Contradictions of Post-Neoliberal Development
University of Minnesota Press

Levi, Heather
The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity
Duke University Press

Luis-Brown, David
Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico and the United States
Duke University Press

Mercado, Sarli E
Cartografías del destierro: en torno a la poesía de Juan Gelman y Luisa Futoransky
Buenos Aires: Corregidor

Mora Salas, Minor
En el Borde: El Riesgo de Empobrecimiento de los Sectores Medios en Tiempos de Ajuste y Globalización
CLACSO

Murray, Pamela
For Glory and Bolivar: The Remarkable Life of Manuela Saenz, 1797-1856
Austin: University of Texas Press

No, Song I.
Cien años de contrahegemonía: Transculturación y heterogeneidad
Fondo Editorial de Universidad Mayor Nacional de San Marcos

Ondetti, Gabriel
Land, Protest, and Politics: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Ortega Ortiz, Reynaldo Yunuen
Movilización y democracia España y México
El Colegio de México

Payne, Leigh A.
Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence
Duke University Press

Petrella, Ivan.
Beyond Liberation Theology: A Polemic
SCM-Canterbury Press

Philippou, Styliane
Oscar Niemeyer: Curves of Irreverence
Yale University Press

Reyes, Marvin DeLos
Sueo en Llamas
Guatemala: Editorial Letra Negra

Rodriguez-Hernandez, Saúl Mauricio & Torres Del Rio César
De milicias reales a militares contrainsurgentes: La institucion militar en Colombia del siglo XVIII al XXI
Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Roett, Riordan & Guadalupe Paz
China's Expansion into the Western Hemisphere: Implications for Latin America and the United States
Brookings Institution Press

Rothman, Franklin Daniel, editor
Vidas Alagadas. Conflitos Socioambientais, Licenciamento e Barragens
Editora UFV

Saint-Germain, Michelle A., & Cynthia Chavez Metoyer
Women Legislators in Central America: Politics, Democracy, and Policy
University of Texas Press

Seed, Patricia
José Limón and La Malinche: The Dancer and the Dance
University of Texas Press

Sell, Barry D., Louise M. Burkhart, & Elizabeth R. Wright, editors
Nahuatl Theater, Volume 3: Spanish Golden Age Drama in Mexican Translation
University of Oklahoma Press

Shefner, Jon
The Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Siavelis, Peter M./ Morgenstern, Scott, eds.
Pathways to Power: Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Speed, Shannon
Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas
Stanford University Press

Stein, Ernesto & Mariano Tommasi, editors, with Pablo T. Spiller & Carlos Scartascini
Policymaking in Latin America: How Politics Shapes Policies
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Havard University

Van Vleet, Krista E.
Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes
University of Texas Press

Whitfield, Esther
Cuban Currency: The Dollar and "Special Period" Fiction
University of Minnesota Press

Wiley, James
The Banana: Empires, Trade Wars, and Globalization
University of Nebraska Press

2007

Althaus-Reid, Marcella Maria, Ivan Petrella, & Luiz Carlos Susin, editors
Another Possible World
SCM-Canterbury Press

Anderson, Joan B. & James Gerber
Fifty Years of Change on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Growth, Development, and Quality of Life
University of Texas Press

Baitenmann, Helga, Victoria Chenaut & Ann Varley, editors.
Decoding Gender.  Law and Practice in Contemporary Mexico

Balderston, Daniel & Francine Masiello, editors
Approaches to Teaching Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman
Modern Language Association

Bergmann, Emilie L. & Stacey Schlau, editors
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz
Modern Language Association

Bonner, Michelle D.
Sustaining Human Rights: Women and Argentine Human Rights Organizations
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Burt, Jo-Marie
Silencing Civil Society: Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru
Palgrave Macmillan Press

Cook, María Lorena
The Politics of Labor Reform in Latin America: Between Flexibility and Rights
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Dabove, Juan Pablo
Nightmares of the Lettered City.  Banditry and Literature in Latin America 1816-1929

Griffith, David
American Guestworkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. Labor Market
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Hinton, Mercedes S.
The State on the Streets.  Police and Politics in Argentina and Brazil
Lynne Rienner Publishers

Kuss, Malena
Performing the Carribean Experience. Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: Volume 2
University of Texas Press

Lasso, Marixa
Myths of Harmony.  Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia 1795-1831

Lucena, Hector
Lo laboral en tiempos de transición
Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela

Martin, Kathleen Rock
Discarded Pages, Araceli Cab Cumi, Maya Poet and Politician
University of New Mexico Press

McCann, Frank
Soldados da Pátria: História do Exército Brasileiro, 1889-1937
São Paulo: Companhia das Letras

McNamara Patrick J.
Sons of the Sierra: Juárez, Díaz & the People of Ixtlán, Oacaca, 1855-1920
University of North Carolina Press

Myers,Kathleen Ann and translation by Nina M. Scott
Fernández de Oviedo’s Chronicle of America: A New History for a New World
University of Texas Press

Román, Reinaldo L.
Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1956
University of North Carolina Press

Wampler, Brian
Participatory Budgeting in Brazil: Contestation, Cooperation, and Accountability
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Ward, Thomas
Cáceres, Aurora. LA ROSA MUERTA. Ed. Thomas Ward.
Buenos Aires: Stockcero

Washbourne, Kelly, translated by Kelly Washbourne & Sergio Waisman
An Anthology of Spanish American Modernismo: In English Translation, With Spanish Text
Modern Language Association

2006

Abeyta, Michael
Fuentes, Terra Nostra and the Reconfiguration of Latin American Culture
The University of Missouri Press

Ballvé, Teo & Vijay Prashad
Dispatches from Latinamerica: On the Frontlines Against Neoliberalism
South End Press

Bird, Anne-Emanuelle
Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico
University of Rochester Press

Cabrera, Arturo Delgado, Angeles Mateo del Pino, & Advana Vieja, editors
Iguales en amor, iguales en deseo: Cultura, sexualidad y disidencia

Champion, Margaret Y.
Peru and the Peruvians in the Twentieth Century
Vantage Press

Dore, Elizabeth
Myths of Modernity.  Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua
Duke University Press

Drake, Paul & Eric Hershberg, editors
State and Society in Conflict.  Comparative Perspectives on Andean Crises
University of Pittsburgh Press

González, Eduardo
Cuba and the Tempest.  Literature & Cinema in the Time of Diaspora
The University of North Carolina Press

Hale, Charles R.
Más que un indio: Racial Ambivalence and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Guatemala
School of American Research Press

Hershberg, Eric & Fred Rosen, editors
Latin America after Neoliberalism: Turning the Tide in the 21st Century?
The New Press

Hinton, Mercedes S.
The State on the Streets: Police and Politics in Argentina and Brazil
Lynne Rienner Publishers

Petrella, Ivan
The Future of Liberation Theology: An Argument and Manifesto
SCM-Canterbury Press

Olcott, Jocelyn
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Duke University Press

Oliveira , Alberto
Land and Labor Market: discourse & theories
Editora Unesp (São Paulo)

Rodriguez, Julia
Civilizing Argentina.  Science, Medicine, and the Modern State
The University of North Carolina Press

Rodriguez-Hernandez, Saúl Mauricio
La influencia de los Estados Unidos en el Ejército Colombiano, 1951-1959
La Carreta Editores-Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Rodríguez-Mourelo, Belén
Encounters in Exile. Themes in the Narrative of the Cuban Diaspora
Valencia: Aduana Vieja

Overmyer-Velazquez, Mark
Visions of the Emerald City.  Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico
Duke University Press

Sommer, Doris, editor
Cultural Agency in the Americas
Duke University Press

Truett, Samuel
Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.- Mexico Borderlands
Yale University Press

Vassoler, Ivani
Urban Brazil: Visions, Afflictions and Governance Lessons
Cambria Press NY

2005

Azor, Ileana
Teatralidades y carnaval.  Danzantes y color en Puebla de los Angeles
Ediciones de Gestos

Eakin, Marshall C. & De Almeida, Paulo Roberto, editors Envisioning Brazil.  A Guide to Brazilian Studies in the United States
The University of Wisconsin Press

Fernández Poncela, Anna M.
Infancia, adolescencia y política en México
IEDF

Figueroa, Luis A.
Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
The University of North Carolina Press

González, Manny J. & González-Ramos, Gladys, editors
Mental Health Care for New Hispanic Immigrants.  Innovative Approaches in Contemporary Clinical Practice
The Haworth Social Work Practice Press

Haney, Patrick J. & Vanderbush, Walt
The Cuban Embargo.  The Domestic Politics of an American Foreign Policy
University of Pittsburgh Press

Knight, Franklin W. & Martínez-Vergne, Teresita, editors
Contemporary Caribbean Cultures and Societies in a Global Context
The University of North Carolina Press

Mallon, Florencia
Courage Tastes of Blood.  The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Aílio and the Chilean State, 1906-2001
Duke University Press

Martínez-Vergne, Teresita
Nation & Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916
The University of North Carolina Press

Mesa-Lago Carmelo & Pérez-López, Jorge F.
Cuba's Aborted Reform.  Socioeconomic Effects, International Comparisons, and Transition Policies
University Press of Florida

Pereira, Anthony W.
Authoritarianism and the Rule of Law in Brazil, Chile, and Argentina
University of Pittsburgh Press

Premo, Bianca
Children of the Father King.  Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima
The University of North Carolina Press

Prados-Torreira, Teresa
Mambisas.  Rebel Women in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
University Press of Florida

Radding, Cynthia
Landscapes of Power and Identity.  Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic
Duke University Press

Reyes, Israel
Humor and the Eccentric Text in Puerto Rican Literature.  New Directions in Puerto Rican Studies
University Press of Florida

Rivero, Yeide M.
Turning Out Blackness.  Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television
Duke University Press

Root Regina A, editor
The Latin American Fashion Reader
Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers

Shaffer, Kirwin R.
Anarchism and Countercultural Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba
University Press of Florida

Tarragó, Rafael E.
Principios de educación moral y cívica, digitization
Available: http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/IbrAmerTxt/

Ward, Thomas
La resistencia cultural: la nación en el ensayo de las Américas, Río Plata, El Caribe, México-Centroamérica, los Andes y Estados Unidos
Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima

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