by Arlene Dàvila, author of El Mall: The Spatial and Class Politics of Shopping Malls in Latin America This guest post is published in advance of the American Sociological Association conference in …
Read More >by Jeffrey Lesser, editor of Global Latin America: Into the Twenty-First Century This guest post is published in advance of the American Sociological Association conference in Seattle. Check back every week for new posts …
Read More >By Barbara Davenport, author of Grit and Hope: A Year with Five Latino Students and the Program That Helped Them Aim for College This guest post is published in advance of the …
Read More >Whether you plan to spend your summer protesting for change or lounging by the pool (or both), there’s no bad time to enlighten yourself to the injustices of the world and to read …
Read More >Yet again, immigration has become a pivotal issue in the elections. Presidential candidates have shared their varying stances. And in response, many Latinos did their best to register to vote despite various …
Read More >By Keith Guzik, author of Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico’s War on Crime This guest post is published in conjunction with the Law and Society Association annual conference in New Orleans, occurring June …
Read More >UC Press is pleased to present Beyond the Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in Havana, the first book by Guadalupe García. Havana has recently become the center of media attention as one of the …
Read More >By Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez, author of Latin American Cinema: A Comparative History 2016 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Latin American Studies Association, the largest organization of Latin Americanists in the …
Read More >If you’re attending the LASA 2016 Congress in New York this year (or even if you aren’t) you’ll want to stop by the UC Press booth and check out Arlene Dávila’s newest book, …
Read More >To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, we’re providing excerpts from El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition, by David E. Hayes-Bautista, which asks a curious question: Why is the holiday so widely celebrated across the …
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