As we celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth, we’d like to take this opportunity to highlight our award-winning journal, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. Editor-in-Chief Charlene Villaseñor Black was recently featured in a profile in …
Read More >At the turn of the previous century, during the Porfiriato, Mexico lived through a time of technological revolutions that modified ways of perceiving time, distance, and sounds. Consider the phonograph, created by …
Read More >September 27th, 2021 marks the 200-year anniversary of the day Mexico achieved independence. In honor of the date, we reached out to Silvia Marina Arrom to discuss her new book, La Güera …
Read More >Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos joins in the celebration and critical reflection of Mexico’s bicentennial of independence. Hence we are glad to announce the forthcoming Thematic Section “Bicentennial Mexican Independence: New Critical …
Read More >By Catalina M. de Onís, author of Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico Puerto Rico’s electric energy problems are widely recognized as one of the most pressing …
Read More >We’re marking the 2021 virtual conference of the Latin American Studies Association by offering a selection of free content from UC Press journals. Current History, the oldest publication devoted exclusively to international …
Read More >By Joshua Frens-String, author Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile Few sounds are more closely associated with social disquiet in contemporary Chile than the rhythmic, …
Read More >Updated May 26, 2021 This week for #LASA2021, we’re proud to be celebrating the accomplishments of Jessica Graham, author of Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United …
Read More >by María Elena García, author of Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru I never intended to write a book about food. And certainly, I …
Read More >by Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, author of In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico In November of 2004, three federal police officers were lynched in the neighborhood …
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