New Books in Latin American Studies

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Fernando Pérez-Montesinos, "Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands" (U Texas Press, 2025)
Jun 7, 2025 – 01:15:56
Lina Pinto-García, "Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
May 31, 2025 – 01:04:34
Maya Mayblin "Vote of Faith: Democracy, Desire, and the Turbulent Lives of Priest Politicians" (Fordham UP, 2024)
May 30, 2025 – 01:23:46
M. Myrta Leslie Santana, Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
May 20, 2025 – 58:47
Andrew Ofstehage, "Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado" (Cornell UP, 2025)
May 19, 2025 – 46:19
Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Diaz, "Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
May 17, 2025 – 48:49
Maron E. Greenleaf, "Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon" (Duke UP, 2024)
May 10, 2025 – 49:46
William Jennings, "Dibia's World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
May 10, 2025 – 49:02
Stephanie Schmidt, "Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain: Missionary Narratives, Nahua Perspectives" (U Texas Press, 2025)
May 6, 2025 – 51:20
Diana Graizbord, "Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2024)
May 2, 2025 – 52:44
Television, Translation, and Algorithms on Netflix
Apr 28, 2025 – 55:56
Lorna Gibb, "Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Apr 26, 2025 – 39:47
Daniel A. Rodriguez, "The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana" (U North Carolina Press, 2020)
Apr 21, 2025 – 51:58
Enrique C. Ochoa, "México Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
Apr 19, 2025 – 01:10:28
María de Los Ángeles Picone, "Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina" (UNC Press, 2025)
Apr 16, 2025 – 01:08:53
Engage and Evade in 2025: Asad L. Asad on Latino Immigrants in America
Apr 12, 2025 – 51:48
Ieva Jusionyte on American Guns in Mexico: Exit Wounds (EF, JP)
Apr 3, 2025 – 59:35
Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy
Apr 1, 2025 – 01:02:10
Vanessa Freije, "Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico" (Duke UP, 2020)
Mar 30, 2025 – 01:05:35
Amy Cox Hall, "The Taste of Nostalgia: Women, Race, and Culinary Longing in Peru" (U Texas Press, 2025)
Mar 21, 2025 – 51:20
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, "The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It" (Basic Books, 2024)
Mar 19, 2025 – 01:02:13
Coup Attempts and Democratic Resistance: Lessons from Brazil
Mar 8, 2025 – 37:59
Vera Tiesler, "Ancient Maya Teeth: Dental Modification, Cosmology, and Social Identity in Mesoamerica" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Mar 5, 2025 – 47:05
Rebecca Janzen, "Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
Mar 5, 2025 – 59:51
Aliyah Khan on the Muslim Caribbean
Feb 28, 2025 – 52:59
Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Feb 19, 2025 – 57:12
Luiz Valério P. Trindade, "Hate Speech and Abusive Behaviour on Social Media: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" (Vernon Press, 2024)
Feb 15, 2025 – 49:00
Magnus Course, "Three Ways to Fail: Journeys Through Mapuche Chile" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Feb 13, 2025 – 01:16:52
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
Feb 6, 2025 – 01:07:44
Greg Childs on Seditious Conspiracy (EF, JP)
Jan 23, 2025 – 34:39
Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin. "Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum" (NYU Press, 2024)
Jan 20, 2025 – 41:19
Andrew Laird, "Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 18, 2025 – 43:45
Byron Ellsworth Hamann, "The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781–1844" (Getty, 2022)
Jan 18, 2025 – 52:27
Victor M. Valle, "The Poetics of Fire: Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands" (U New Mexico Press, 2023)
Jan 17, 2025 – 01:21:25
Benjamin H. Bradlow, "Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jan 13, 2025 – 51:47
Andrew Gomez, "Constructing Cuban America: Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Jan 13, 2025 – 46:17
Jorge Duany, "Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 12, 2025 – 01:25:23
Edward Jones Corredera, "Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 10, 2025 – 48:25
Alex Cuadros, "When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon" (Grand Central Publishing, 2024)
Jan 8, 2025 – 29:10
Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" (Faber and Faber, 2020)
Jan 7, 2025 – 44:22
Theresa Keeley, "Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Jan 6, 2025 – 47:24
Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jan 4, 2025 – 01:09:02
Benjamin T. Smith, "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
Jan 3, 2025 – 46:39
Randy M. Browne, "The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Dec 31, 2024 – 01:07:25
Matthew Chin, "Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2024)
Dec 22, 2024 – 01:00:24
Ege Selin Islekel, "Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
Dec 20, 2024 – 01:06:44
Ana Lucia Araujo, "Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Dec 12, 2024 – 01:14:23
Elyse Ona Singer, "Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Dec 6, 2024 – 50:30
Maria Angela Diaz, "A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
Nov 30, 2024 – 51:39
Without Parents or Papers: A Discussion with Stephanie L. Canizales
Nov 21, 2024 – 45:27

Recent Reviews

WillisttheIllest

Great serve, but not intellectually/values diverse

I’ve gone back-and-forth on this show over the years. I love the service they provide their audience and enjoy it a lot. I do find the particular authors they invite our… Overly political and of a particular academic culture. This does affect my ability to enjoy the material, as I think it doesn’t always give a fair stance on traditional European culture which is the second half of Latin American culture. So my take is that they are great hosts of Latin conversations but though a particularly American lense.