Latin American Studies Association Virtual Exhibit

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We are pleased to exhibit at the 2023 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association in Vancouver, Canada from May 24-27, 2023, and offer a discount on all of our new and award-winning books in Latin American History, Anthropology, Pre-Columbian Archaeology and more. Be sure to visit booths FB03 and FB04 at LASA, browse our list of new and recent titles, and chat with Senior Acquisitions Editor Kerry Webb and Editorial Assistant Christina Vargas!

Apply the discount code UTXLASA during checkout online to receive 30% off the full list price of any book, plus free domestic shipping (US only). Offer valid from May 20, 2023 through June 30, 2023. Free standard U.S. domestic shipping is included. Browse featured books below!

Below is a schedule of our authors presenting their work:

PanelTime
Suyapa G. Portillo VIlleda & Yajaira M. Padilla (Workshop) “Teaching Central American Studies: Critical Approaches and Perspectives”5/25, 12:00 PM
Rebeca L. Hey-Colón, “The Paths of Loss in Latinx Studies”5/25, 5:15 PM
Tatiana Reinoza & Marisel C. Moreno, “African-Caribbean-Latinx Connections: Literature, Culture, and Art”5/26, 3:30 PM
Manuel R. Cuellar, “The Afterlife of Deportation in Mexico”5/27, 10:15 AM
Robert McKee Irwin, “LGBTI Migrants: Intersecting Vulnerabilities and Political Struggles from Origin to Destination”5/27, 1:45 PM

Latinx: The Future is Now

Edited by Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez and Lorgia Garcia-Peña

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Historia USA

Edited by Luis Alvarez, Carlos Kevin Blanton, and Lorrin Thomas

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The Comitán Valley

Sculpture and Identity on the Maya Frontier

Caitlin C. Earley

Resurrecting Tenochtitlan

Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City

Delia Cosentino, Adriana Zavala

Channeling Knowledges

Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds

Rebeca L. Hey-Colón

Predatory Economies

The Sanema and the Socialist State in Contemporary Amazonia

Amy Penfield

Reclaiming the Americas

Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory

Tatiana Reinoza

Nested Ecologies

A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine

Rosalynn A. Vega

Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 76

Humanities

Katherine D. McCann

Pitching Democracy

Baseball and Politics in the Dominican Republic

April Yoder

Dancing with Life

Recontextualizing Mexican Masks

Pavel Shlossberg

The Rural State

Making Comunidades, Campesinos, and Conflict in Peru's Central Sierra

Javier Puente

Unseen Art

Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica

Claudia Brittenham

The Untranslatable Image

A Mestizo History of the Arts in New Spain, 1500–1600

Alessandra Russo, Susan Emanuel

Unraveling Time

Thirty Years of Ethnography in Cuenca, Ecuador

Ann Miles

Fatherhood in the Borderlands

A Daughter's Slow Approach

Domino Renee Perez

Siblings of Soil

Dominicans and Haitians in the Age of Revolutions

Charlton W. Yingling

Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge

Building a Community Archive

Robert Irwin

Undocumented Motherhood

Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing

Elizabeth Farfán-Santos

Oaxaca in Motion

An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes

Roots of Resistance

A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras

Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda

Choreographing Mexico

Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation

Manuel R. Cuellar

Conjured Bodies

Queer Racialization in Contemporary Latinidad

Laura Grappo

A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film

From Nationalism to Protest

Darlene J. Sadlier

Crossing Waters

Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature & Art

Marisel C. Moreno

Mario Barradas and Son Jarocho

The Journey of a Mexican Regional Music

Yolanda Broyles-González, Francisco González, Rafael Figueroa Hernández

From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals

US Central Americans and the Cultural Politics of Non-Belonging

Yajaira M. Padilla

Taking Form, Making Worlds

Cartonera Publishers in Latin America

Lucy Bell, Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, Patrick O'Hare

Riot and Rebellion in Mexico

The Making of a Race War Paradigm

Ana Sabau

Abecedario de Juárez

An Illustrated Lexicon

Julián Cardona, Alice Leora Briggs

Rethinking Zapotec Time

Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico

David Tavárez

Image Encounters

Moche Murals and Archaeo Art History

Lisa Trever

Gothic Sovereignty

Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras

Jon Horne Carter

Selling Black Brazil

Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia

Anadelia Romo

Inventing Indigenism

Francisco Laso's Image of Modern Peru

Natalia Majluf

Playing with Things

Engaging the Moche Sex Pots

Mary Weismantel

Surviving Mexico

Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-first Century

Celeste González de Bustamante, Jeannine E. Relly

The Politics of Patronage

Lawyers, Philanthropy, and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

Benjamin Márquez

Razabilly

Transforming Sights, Sounds, and History in the Los Angeles Latina/o Rockabilly Scene

Nicholas F. Centino

Reverberations of Racial Violence

Critical Reflections on the History of the Border

Sonia Hernández, John Morán González

Vital Voids

Cavities and Holes in Mesoamerican Material Culture

Andrew Finegold

Land without Masters

Agrarian Reform and Political Change under Peru's Military Government

Anna Cant

The First New Chronicle and Good Government

On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615

Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Roland Hamilton

Banana Cultures

Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States

John Soluri

Brown Trans Figurations

Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies

Francisco J. Galarte

Descendants of Aztec Pictography

The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Elizabeth Hill Boone

Her Cup for Sweet Cacao

Food in Ancient Maya Society

Traci Ardren

The Starting Line

Latina/o Children, Texas Schools, and National Debates on Early Education

Robert Crosnoe

Haunting Without Ghosts

Spectral Realism in Colombian Literature, Film, and Art

Juliana Martínez

Frontier Intimacies

Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco

Paola Canova

The Wind Traveler

A Novel

Alonso Cueto, Frank Wynne, Jessie Mendez Sayer

The Adorned Body

Mapping Ancient Maya Dress

Nicholas Carter, Stephen D. Houston, Franco D. Rossi

Chican@ Artivistas

Music, Community, and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles

Martha Gonzalez

Out of the Shadow

Revisiting the Revolution from Post-Peace Guatemala

Julie Gibbings, Heather Vrana

Futbolera

A History of Women and Sports in Latin America

Brenda Elsey, Joshua Nadel

Pictured Politics

Visualizing Colonial History in South American Portrait Collections

Emily Engel

Love in the Drug War

Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border

Sarah Luna

Maya Bonesetters

Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala

Servando Z. Hinojosa, Servando G. Hinojosa

Against Abstraction

Notes from an Ex-Latin Americanist

Alberto Moreiras

Clio's Laws

On History and Language

Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, Mary Ellen Fieweger

Engendering Revolution

Women, Unpaid Labor, and Maternalism in Bolivarian Venezuela

Rachel Elfenbein

The Florentine Codex

An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Jeanette Favrot Peterson, Kevin Terraciano

The Value of Aesthetics

Oaxacan Woodcarvers in Global Economies of Culture

Alanna Cant

Plant Kin

A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil

Theresa L. Miller

The Art of Solidarity

Visual and Performative Politics in Cold War Latin America

Jessica Stites Mor, Maria del Carmen Suescun Pozas

The Neoliberal Diet

Healthy Profits, Unhealthy People

Gerardo Otero

A Camera in the Garden of Eden

The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic

Kevin Coleman