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The Celia Ramos Ruling and the Long Fight for Justice in Peru

"Together We Fight" author Ñusta Carranza Ko on a recent pinnacle court case in Peru and the continued fight for human rights.
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"Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos" Announces the 2024–2025 Christian Zlolniski Award Winners

The 2024–2025 Christian Zlolniski Award recognizes outstanding early-career scholarship on Mexican Catholic women’s activism and representations of narco violence in contemporary Mexican cinema.
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New from Pacific Historical Review: Black Schools in the West, Stopover Migration, and Labor Relations in Vietnam

Preview the new Summer 2026 issue of "Pacific Historical Review."
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Life in Traffic: Women, Plants, and Gold Along South America's Interoceanic Highway

by Ruth E. Goldstein (Author)
Jun 2026

Emerging El Dorado: Steam Age Expansionism and the Social Worlds of Growth in Argentina

by Eduardo Elena (Author)
Jun 2026

I Want to Dance with You: Resistance, Community, and Solidarity in the Work of Contemporary Mexican Women Artists

by Alberto McKelligan Hernández (Author)
Aug 2026

Peripheral Citizenship: Popular Movements and the Progressive Catholic Church in Urban Brazil

by Daniel McDonald (Author)
Aug 2026

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The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite

by Rachel Grace Newman (Author)
May 2026
Open Access

Local Color: Reckoning with Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz

by Karma F. Frierson (Author)
Sep 2025
Open Access

Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires

by Sidney Xu Lu (Author)
Feb 2025
Open Access

Visions of Global Environmental Justice: Comunidades Negras and the War on Drugs in Colombia

by Alexander Huezo (Author)
Feb 2025
Open Access

Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm

by Emily Yates-Doerr (Author)
Nov 2024
Open Access

The Fourth Invasion: Decolonizing Histories, Extractivism, and Maya Resistance in Guatemala

by Giovanni Batz (Author)
Oct 2024
Open Access

Cancer Intersections: Biomedicine, Health Insurance, and the Paradoxes of Health Care Reform in Neoliberal Colombia

by Camilo Sanz (Author)
Sep 2024
Open Access

Romancing Yesenia: How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture

by Masha Salazkina (Author)
Aug 2024
Open Access