As part of our ongoing Editor Spotlight Series, we connected with UC Press Associate Editor Enrique Ochoa-Kaup to talk about his new role managing the Asian studies and Latin American studies lists, and …
Read More >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 >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 …
Read More >By Corinna Zeltsman, author of Ink under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Behind histories of press freedom and liberal state formation in nineteenth-century Mexico lies an unexplored dimension – the …
Read More >By J. T. Way, author of Agrotropolis: Youth, Street, and Nation in the New Urban Guatemala As a scholar whose research applies directly as testimony in asylum cases, I am well-versed in …
Read More >As part of our ongoing Editor Spotlight Series, we interviewed UC Press Editor Kate Marshall about her approach to acquiring in the fields of Anthropology, Food Studies, and Latin American Studies, and what …
Read More >By Christy Thornton, author of Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy Who gets to govern the global economy? In the twentieth century, this was a key question …
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