September 25, 2024
To celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month, we are pleased to share some great reads and award-winning selections from our bookshelves. These books cover Latinx and Chicanx culture, history, politics,… READ MORE
June 10, 2024
Given comics’ ability to cross borders, Latin American creators have used the form to transgress the political, social, spatial, and cultural borders that shape the region. New in our World… READ MORE
May 20, 2024
Unruly Domestication investigates how Peru’s ongoing, internationally endorsed “war on poverty” shapes politics, intimate identities, and urban space in Lima. Drawing on a decade of embedded, ethnographic research in Lima’s largest… READ MORE
May 7, 2024
The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) introduced a series of state-led initiatives promising modernity, progress, national grandeur, and stability. Far from accomplishing their stated goals, however, these initiatives concealed violence, and permitted… READ MORE
March 19, 2024
Next week is International Transgender Day of Visibility, an opportunity to raise awareness about trans identities, and to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people while also drawing attention… READ MORE
February 26, 2024
Among the richest culinary traditions in Mexico are those of the “eight regions” of the state of Oaxaca. Mesquite Pods to Mezcal: 10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines brings together some… READ MORE
February 19, 2024
Known as Black Rome, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, is a predominantly Black city. The local art, food, and dance are closely linked to the population’s African roots. Yet many Black… READ MORE
January 22, 2024
Paid to Care provides insight into the struggles of paid domestic workers in Latin America through an exploration of films, texts, and digital media produced since the 1980s in collaboration… READ MORE
January 11, 2024
A groundbreaking cultural interpretation of Cuban postsocialism Paloma Duong’s book Portable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History is a study of Cuban culture and media in the twenty-first… READ MORE
January 8, 2024
The “shrimp ladies,” locally known as changueras in southern Sinaloa, Mexico, sell seafood in open-air markets, forming an extralegal but key part of the economy built around this “pink gold.”… READ MORE
