SLAS 2023

Society for Latin American Studies Annual Conference

29 – 31 March 2023

Combined Academic Publishers Virtual book Exhibit

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Raising Two Fists

Struggles for Black Citizenship in Multicultural Colombia

Roosbelinda Cárdenas

£25.99

Stanford University Press

27 February 2024

Progress in the Balance

Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil

Daniel R. Reichman

£21.99

Cornell University Press

15 August 2023

The Comitán Valley

Sculpture and Identity on the Maya Frontier

Caitlin C. Earley

£54.00

University of Texas Press

13 July 2023

The Church of the Dead

The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas

Jennifer Scheper Hughes

£19.99

NYU Press

11 July 2023

Unexpected Routes

Refugee Writers in Mexico

Tabea Alexa Linhard

£63.00

Stanford University Press

11 July 2023

Transnational Communism across the Americas

Marc Becker, Margaret Power, Tony Wood, Jacob A. Zumoff, Marc Becker, Jacob Blanc, Tanya Harmer, Patricia Harms, Lazar Jeifets, Victor Jeifets, Adriana Petra, Margaret Power, Frances Peace Sullivan, Kevin A. Young, Tony Wood, Jacob A. Zumoff

£25.99

University of Illinois Press

4 July 2023

Of Light and Struggle

Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay

Debbie Sharnak

£40.00

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

20 June 2023

Moving Memory

Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile

Siri Schwabe

£25.99

Cornell University Press

15 June 2023

The Alternative University

Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela

Mariya P. Ivancheva

£67.00

Stanford University Press

13 June 2023

The Forgotten Diaspora

Mesoamerican Migrations and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Travis Jeffres

£58.00

Nebraska

1 June 2023

Transimperial Anxieties

The Making and Unmaking of Arab Ottomans in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850–1940

José D. Najar

£58.00

Nebraska

1 June 2023

Unsettling Agribusiness

Indigenous Protests and Land Conflict in Brazil

LaShandra Sullivan

£54.00

Nebraska

1 June 2023

Danzón Days

Age, Race, and Romance in Mexico

Hettie Malcomson

£25.99

University of Illinois Press

23 May 2023

Resurrecting Tenochtitlan

Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City

Delia Cosentino, Adriana Zavala

£54.00

University of Texas Press

16 May 2023

Scales of Resistance

Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism

Maylei Blackwell

£23.99

Duke University Press Books

12 May 2023

Channeling Knowledges

Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds

Rebeca L. Hey-Colón

£25.99

University of Texas Press

9 May 2023

Since Time Immemorial

Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico

Yanna Yannakakis

£22.99

Duke University Press Books

5 May 2023

The Road to the Land of the Mother of God

A History of the Interoceanic Highway in Peru

Stephen G. Perz, Jorge Luis Castillo Hurtado

£63.00

Nebraska

1 May 2023

Predatory Economies

The Sanema and the Socialist State in Contemporary Amazonia

Amy Penfield

£25.99

University of Texas Press

18 April 2023

Dissident Practices

Brazilian Women Artists, 1960s–2020s

Claudia Calirman

£20.99

Duke University Press Books

7 April 2023

Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 76

Humanities

Katherine D. McCann

£134.00

University of Texas Press

28 March 2023

The Force of Witness

Contra Feminicide

Rosa-Linda Fregoso

£19.99

Duke University Press Books

24 March 2023

Strolling in the Ruins

The Caribbean's Non-sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century

Faith Smith

£20.99

Duke University Press Books

17 March 2023

Pitching Democracy

Baseball and Politics in the Dominican Republic

April Yoder

£40.00

University of Texas Press

14 March 2023

Political Children

Violence, Labor, and Rights in Peru

Mikaela Luttrell-Rowland

£23.99

Stanford University Press

28 February 2023

Aaron Copland in Latin America

Music and Cultural Politics

Carol A. Hess

£25.99

University of Illinois Press

28 February 2023

Myrlande Constant

The Work of Radiance

Katherine Smith, Jerry Philogene

£45.00

Fowler Museum at UCLA

28 February 2023

Identity Investments

Middle-Class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile

Joel Stillerman

£27.99

Stanford University Press

14 February 2023

Rising Up, Living On

Re-Existences, Sowings, and Decolonial Cracks

Catherine E. Walsh

£22.99

Duke University Press Books

10 February 2023

Circuits of the Sacred

A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean

Carlos Ulises Decena

£19.99

Duke University Press Books

3 February 2023

The Spectacular Generic

Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico

Cori Hayden

£20.99

Duke University Press Books

20 January 2023

The Rural State

Making Comunidades, Campesinos, and Conflict in Peru's Central Sierra

Javier Puente

£40.00

University of Texas Press

17 January 2023

Unseen Art

Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica

Claudia Brittenham

£54.00

University of Texas Press

17 January 2023

The Untranslatable Image

A Mestizo History of the Arts in New Spain, 1500–1600

Alessandra Russo, Susan Emanuel

£40.00

University of Texas Press

10 January 2023

Adrift on an Inland Sea

Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands

Hal Langfur

£29.99

Stanford University Press

3 January 2023

Unraveling Time

Thirty Years of Ethnography in Cuenca, Ecuador

Ann Miles

£25.99

University of Texas Press

20 December 2022

German Conquistadors in Venezuela

The Welsers' Colony, Racialized Capitalism, and Cultural Memory

Giovanna Montenegro

£85.00

University of Notre Dame Press

15 December 2022

Fatherhood in the Borderlands

A Daughter's Slow Approach

Domino Renee Perez

£25.99

University of Texas Press

6 December 2022

Sacrifice and Regeneration

Seventh-day Adventism and Religious Transformation in the Andes

Yael Mabat

£25.99

Nebraska

1 December 2022

Visible Borders, Invisible Economies

Living Death in Latinx Narratives

Kristy L. Ulibarri

£29.99

University of Texas Press

22 November 2022

Siblings of Soil

Dominicans and Haitians in the Age of Revolutions

Charlton W. Yingling

£40.00

University of Texas Press

22 November 2022

The Ends of Paradise

Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras

Christopher Loperena

£21.99

Stanford University Press

15 November 2022

The Enlightened Patrolman

Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City

Nicole von Germeten

£25.99

Nebraska

1 November 2022

Christina Fernandez

Multiple Exposures

Rebecca Epstein

£45.00

UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press

1 November 2022

Rooted Globalism

Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries

Kevin Funk

£27.99

Indiana University Press

18 October 2022

Undocumented Motherhood

Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing

Elizabeth Farfán-Santos

£21.99

University of Texas Press

18 October 2022

Health in Ruins

The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital

César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero

£21.99

Duke University Press Books

14 October 2022

Oaxaca in Motion

An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes

£23.99

University of Texas Press

11 October 2022

Roots of Resistance

A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras

Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda

£29.99

University of Texas Press

6 October 2022

Strength from the Waters

A History of Indigenous Mobilization in Northwest Mexico

James V. Mestaz

£25.99

Nebraska

1 October 2022

The Anzaldúan Theory Handbook

AnaLouise Keating

£22.99

Duke University Press Books

1 October 2022

Translating Blackness

Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective

Lorgia García Peña

£21.99

Duke University Press Books

23 September 2022

Crossing the Current

Aftermaths of War along the Huallaga River

Richard Kernaghan

£23.99

Stanford University Press

20 September 2022

Choreographing Mexico

Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation

Manuel R. Cuellar

£40.00

University of Texas Press

20 September 2022

Panama in Black

Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century

Kaysha Corinealdi

£20.99

Duke University Press Books

16 September 2022

Genres of Listening

An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires

Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas

£19.99

Duke University Press Books

16 September 2022

Labor's Outcasts

Migrant Farmworkers and Unions in North America, 1934-1966

Andrew J. Hazelton

£23.99

University of Illinois Press

13 September 2022

The Costs of the Gig Economy

Musical Entrepreneurs and the Cultural Politics of Inequality in Northeastern Brazil

Falina Enriquez

£25.99

University of Illinois Press

13 September 2022

The Mexico Reader

History, Culture, Politics

Gilbert M. Joseph, Timothy J. Henderson

£26.99

Duke University Press Books

9 September 2022

The People's Hotel

Working for Justice in Argentina

Katherine Sobering

£20.99

Duke University Press Books

9 September 2022

Reading, Writing, and Revolution

Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas

Philis Barragán Goetz

£25.99

University of Texas Press

6 September 2022

After Stories

Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador

Irina Carlota Silber

£23.99

Stanford University Press

23 August 2022

Conjured Bodies

Queer Racialization in Contemporary Latinidad

Laura Grappo

£25.99

University of Texas Press

23 August 2022

A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film

From Nationalism to Protest

Darlene J. Sadlier

£49.00

University of Texas Press

16 August 2022

The Chicano Experience

An Alternative Perspective

Alfredo Mirandé

£29.99

University of Notre Dame Press

15 August 2022

Risking a Somersault in the Air

Conversations with Nicaraguan Writers (Revised edition)

Margaret Randall

£19.99

New Village Press

9 August 2022

Latina/o/x Education in Chicago

Roots, Resistance, and Transformation

Isaura Pulido, Angelica Rivera, Ann M Avilés, Jaime Alanís, Ann M Avilés, Gabriel Alejandro Cortez, Erica R Dávila, Lilia Fernandez, Nilda Flores-González, Cristina Pacione-Zayas, Isaura Pulido, Angelica Rivera, Arlene Torres, Mirelsie Velázquez, Leticia Villarreal Sosa

£21.99

University of Illinois Press

9 August 2022

Racial Baggage

Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border

Sylvia Zamora

£21.99

Stanford University Press

26 July 2022

Crossing Waters

Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature & Art

Marisel C. Moreno

£25.99

University of Texas Press

26 July 2022

Social Change, Industrialization, and the Service Economy in São Paulo, 1950-2020

Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S. Klein

£67.00

Stanford University Press

19 July 2022

Óscar Romero’s Theological Vision

Liberation and the Transfiguration of the Poor

Edgardo Colón-Emeric

£29.99

University of Notre Dame Press

15 July 2022

Building Sustainable Worlds

Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest

Theresa Delgadillo, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Geraldo L. Cadava, Claire F. Fox, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Delia Fernández-Jones, Ariana Ruiz, Sandra Ruiz, Carmen Hernandez, PBVM, J. Gibrán Villalobos, Kevin Mary Davalos, Sergio M. González, Emiliano Aguilar Jr., Theresa Delgadillo, Laura Fernández-Jones, Marie Lerma, Leila Vieira, Geraldo L. Cadava, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

£23.99

University of Illinois Press

12 July 2022

Human Rights in Latin America

A Politics of Transformation

Sonia Cardenas, Rebecca K. Root

£36.00

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

5 July 2022

The Grammar of Civil War

A Mexican Case Study, 1857–61

Will Fowler

£58.00

Nebraska

1 July 2022

The Small Matter of Suing Chevron

Suzana Sawyer

£23.99

Duke University Press Books

30 June 2022

Taking Form, Making Worlds

Cartonera Publishers in Latin America

Lucy Bell, Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, Patrick O'Hare

£40.00

University of Texas Press

7 June 2022

The Impasse of the Latin American Left

Franck Gaudichaud, Massimo Modonesi, Jeffery R. Webber

£19.99

Duke University Press Books

27 May 2022

From the Grounds Up

Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico

Casey Marina Lurtz

£25.99

Stanford University Press

17 May 2022

Lawful Sins

Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico

Elyse Ona Singer

£25.99

Stanford University Press

17 May 2022

A Tyranny Against Itself

Intimate Partner Violence on the Margins of Bogotá

John I. B. Bhadra-Heintz

£29.99

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

10 May 2022

Contracting Freedom

Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs

Maria L. Quintana

£40.00

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

10 May 2022

Jobless Growth in the Dominican Republic

Disorganization, Precarity, and Livelihoods

Christian Krohn-Hansen

£76.00

Stanford University Press

3 May 2022

Cold War Paradise

Settlement, Culture, and Identity-Making among U.S. Americans in Costa Rica, 1945–1980

Atalia Shragai

£25.99

Nebraska

1 May 2022

Bandits and Liberals, Rebels and Saints

Latin America since Independence

Alan Knight

£29.99

Nebraska

1 May 2022

Visualizing Black Lives

Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media

Reighan Gillam

£21.99

University of Illinois Press

26 April 2022

Children of the Revolution

Violence, Inequality, and Hope in Nicaraguan Migration

Laura J. Enriquez

£23.99

Stanford University Press

19 April 2022

Planetary Longings

Mary Louise Pratt

£23.99

Duke University Press Books

15 April 2022

Workers Like All the Rest of Them

Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile

Elizabeth Quay Hutchison

£19.99

Duke University Press Books

1 April 2022

Acts of Growth

Development and the Politics of Abundance in Peru

Eric Hirsch

£25.99

Stanford University Press

15 March 2022

The Southern Cone and the Origins of Pan America, 1888-1933

Mark J. Petersen

£58.00

University of Notre Dame Press

15 March 2022

Scales of Captivity

Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child

Mary Pat Brady

£22.99

Duke University Press Books

4 March 2022

The Joys and Disappointments of a German Governess in Imperial Brazil

Ina von Binzer, Linda Lewin, Gabriel Trop

£49.00

University of Notre Dame Press

15 February 2022

From Revolution to Power in Brazil

How Radical Leftists Embraced Capitalism and Struggled with Leadership

Kenneth P. Serbin

£40.00

University of Notre Dame Press

15 July 2021

Global 1968

Cultural Revolutions in Europe and Latin America

A. James McAdams, Anthony P. Monta

£40.00

University of Notre Dame Press

1 June 2021

The Picaresque and the Writing Life in Mexico

Jorge Téllez

£54.00

University of Notre Dame Press

15 May 2021

Clothing the New World Church

Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520–1820

Maya Stanfield-Mazzi

£45.00

University of Notre Dame Press

15 February 2021

Identity and Nationalism in Modern Argentina

Defending the True Nation

Jeane DeLaney

£40.00

University of Notre Dame Press

25 July 2020

Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Legal Impact of the American Convention on Human Rights

Ligia De Jesús Castaldi

£67.00

University of Notre Dame Press

25 June 2020

Making Immigrants in Modern Argentina

Julia AlbarracÍn

£49.00

University of Notre Dame Press

31 May 2020

Black in Latin America

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

£23.99

NYU Press

1 September 2012

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