Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos‘s current issue features a thematic section on the bicentennial of Mexican independence, which highlights the contribution of political actors generally ignored in official tributes to heroic figures. Specifically, the …
Read More >Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (LALVC) is focusing on “the future of the art of the past” in two special sections, the first of which was published in issue 3.3, and …
Read More >Before 1810, silver capitalism made New Spain the richest kingdom in the Americas. Then in 1808, the judicial regime pivotal to stabilizing its inequities fell to militarized powers. Two years later, insurgents …
Read More >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, …
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