Latin American Studies titles from University of California Press

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Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Announces Keynote Address on Mexican Independence

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 …

Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture Focuses on “the Future of the Art of the Past”

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 …

Scholar Explores Mexican Women’s Early Use of Sound Technologies

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 …