First Books in Our Visualidades Series
November 28, 2023
A New Series in Latin American Visual History The University of Texas Press is pleased to share the first books in our new series Visualidades: Studies in Latin American Visual… READ MORE
Category: Latin American Studies
Q&A with Jason Ruiz on Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America’s War on Drugs
October 20, 2023
If there is an enemy in the War on Drugs, it is Latinx people. That is the lesson of forty years of cultural production in the United States, and the… READ MORE
Q&A with Amelia Fiske on the Toxic Relations of Oil Extraction in Amazonia
October 17, 2023
Reckoning with Harm is a striking ethnographic analysis of the harm resulting from oil extraction. Covering fifty years of settler colonization and industrial transformation of the Ecuadorian Amazon, Amelia Fiske interrogates… READ MORE
Lisa Trever’s “Image Encounters” wins Raymond J. Horowitz Book Prize
October 4, 2023
UT Press is pleased to announce that Image Encounters: Moche Murals and Archaeo Art History by Lisa Trever has been awarded the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Book Prize… READ MORE
Recent Book Awards in Latin American Studies
May 23, 2023
To celebrate the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) annual meeting in Vancouver this year, we are thrilled to feature our recent award-winning books in Latin American history, visual studies, anthropology,… READ MORE
Depicting Intra-Caribbean Migration: A Q&A with Marisel Moreno, author of Crossing Waters
November 8, 2022
Marisel Moreno’s Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature & Art is the first book-length study of literary and artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone… READ MORE
Latinx Heritage Month Books
September 30, 2022
To celebrate 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, and more…. READ MORE
Mario Barradas | Growing Up to Become the Master of Son Jarocho Music
September 19, 2022
Excerpts from Mario Barradas and Son Jarocho: The Journey of a Mexican Regional Music Mario Barradas’ influence on Son Jarocho music is undeniable. From its rural origins in the Sotavento… READ MORE
Douglas Haynes on Surviving Disasters
September 15, 2022
Five years after my book Every Day We Live Is the Future: Surviving in a City of Disasters was published, I wish I could say that it’s less relevant now…. READ MORE
Q&A with Slavery and Utopia author Fernando Santos-Granero
October 14, 2020
In the first half of the twentieth century, a charismatic Peruvian Amazonian Indigenous chief played a key role in leading his people, the Ashaninka, through the chaos generated by the… READ MORE
