The scramble for distant riches has featured centrally in the history of the Global South―from the first forays of European imperialists to the recent fascination with emerging markets. In the mid-nineteenth century, fortune hunters turned their...

A gripping history of FBI surveillance, political repression, and the fight for Puerto Rican independence In the 1940s, with the construction of a naval base and a bombing range, Puerto Rico became a major geo-political military outpost for the United...

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction Shortlisted for the 2025 Juan E. Méndez Book Award "Detailed and heartrending . . . uses years of research to show the way that a country destabilized by war can invite merciless profiteers to break apart...

A powerful chronicle of Colombia’s descent into decades of civil war through the lens of an intimate, multi-generational tale of upheaval and betrayal.When presumed president-elect Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, champion of the working class and harbinger of a...

Castro affirms the compatibility of Marxist revolution and religion, and reminisces about growing up Catholic

An Insightful Examination Of Latin America's Contemporary Democratic Landscape And How It Is Marked By Patterns Of Polarization And Volatility. Although Latin American Democracies Have Shown Considerable Resilience, Today They Face New Forms Of Political...

Iris Zavala argues that Hispanic modernism is an emancipatory narrative of self-representation. Out of Cuba's struggles against Spanish and U.S. colonialism, modernism emerged among the Hispanic intelligentsia as an attempt to create a collective...

"Wolf drew on anthropology, archaeology, history, and geography to mold a magnificent, sweeping, and beautifully written synthesis. With style and deep personal engagement he unraveled the complexity of Mexico and Guatemala's past with its multiple...

Drawing From Her Scholarly Background In Performance, Literary Studies, And Cultural Studies, Irene Mata Traces How Latinx Performance Art Intersects With The Work Of Recent Activism On Issues Affecting Latinx Communities. One Way Of Doing This Is By...

An examination of the interconnectedness of brown-racialized people across multiple identities, told through case studies of television, literature, and writing. As a Filipinx immigrant to the United States, Sony Coráñez Bolton has frequently been...

In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García-Peña explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. García-Peña constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad...

The acclaimed New York Times and IndieBound bestseller: ÒFarmerÕs passionate book bring(s) HaitiÕs appalling tragedy back to the worldÕs attentionÓ ÑForeign Affairs

The second installment of the life of the Nobel Peace prize-winning activist. Rigoberta Menchu is a worldwide symbol of courage in the continuing fight of indigenous peoples for justice. The Guatemalan Indian leader first came to the world’s attention...

The interdisciplinary essays in Decolonial Voices discuss racialized, subaltern, feminist, and diasporic identities and the aesthetic politics of hybrid and mestiza/o cultural productions. This collection represents several key directions in the field:...

Between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s, the people of Guatemala were subjected to a state-sponsored campaign of political violence and repression designed to not only defeat a left-wing, revolutionary insurgency but also destroy Mayan communities and...

Haiti was once a beacon of Black liberatory futures, but now it is often depicted as a place with no future where emigration is the only way out for most of its population. But Reclaiming Haiti's Futures tells a different story. It is a story about two...