Latin American Studies

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Race, Elections, and Power in Modern Brazil

By Andrew Janusz
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, Latin American Studies, Elections and Voting

When race structures access to power and policy influence

Fictions of the Real

Synergies Between Screen and Stage in Argentine Performance

By Brenda Werth
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

Re-centers the impact of the real on the praxis of art in Argentine performance

Aesthetics of Displacement

Movement, Archives, and Performance in Contemporary Colombia

By Melissa Blanco Borelli
Subjects: Dance, Latinx Studies, Latin American Studies, Theater and Performance

Movement and performance as a means of resistance and identity formation in contemporary Colombia

A Beautiful Fight

The Racial Politics of Capoeira in Backland Bahia

By Esther Viola Kurtz
Subjects: Dance, Music, Ethnomusicology, Latin American Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Music and Social Justice

A critical ethnography of Black and white participation in Afro-Brazilian music and dance

Geographies of Relation

Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas

By Theresa Delgadillo
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, African Studies

How diaspora and borderlands subjects from across the Americas have represented and performed their interrelationship

Gheo-Shih

An Archaic Macroband Camp in the Valley of Oaxaca

By Frank Hole & Kent V. Flannery
Subjects: Archaeology, Latin American Studies
Series: Memoirs

Reports on the discovery of Gheo-Shih, an Archaic site in the Valley of Oaxaca, and subsequent archaeological investigations.

Bodies on the Front Lines

Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Edited by Brenda Werth & Katherine Zien
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies

Performances as feminist, queer, and trans activism, from theater and flash mobs to street protests and online manifestos

The Burials of Cerro Azul, Peru

1st Edition

By Joyce Marcus
Subjects: Archaeology, Latin American Studies
Series: Memoirs

Burial material from excavations at Cerro Azul in Peru’s Cañete Valley, a pre-Inca fishing community.

None of the Above

Protest Voting in Latin American Democracies

By Mollie J. Cohen
Subjects: Latin American Studies, Political Science
Series: Emerging Democracies

How citizens casting an invalid vote still contribute to democracy

Inhabiting the Impossible

Dance and Experimentation in Puerto Rico

Edited by Susan Homar & nibia pastrana santiago
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Artists and scholars celebrate the development, diversity, and ethics of Puerto Rican experimental dance

Architectures of Hope

Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing

By Moisés Kopper
Subjects: Political Science, Spatial Politics, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Social Anthropology

On the eve of the 2008 financial crisis, Brazil implemented its largest-ever public housing program, the Minha Casa Minha Vida

Evading the Patronage Trap

Interest Representation in Mexico

By Brian Palmer-Rubin
Subjects: Latin American Studies, Political Science, Public Policy and Governance

Patronage negatively affects economic opportunity for small farms and businesses

A Study of Crisis

with a new Preface

By Michael Brecher & Jonathan Wilkenfeld
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Economics, International Economics, Latin American Studies, Digital Projects

A comprehensive study of the causes and consequences of war in the twentieth century

New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia

Welcome to the Twenty-First Century

By Pablo Baisotti
Subjects: Political Science, Spatial Politics, Latin American Studies, Asian Studies

The modernity of the new century

Human Capital versus Basic Income

Ideology and Models for Anti-Poverty Programs in Latin America

By Fabian A Borges
Subjects: Latin American Studies

Examines the relationship between the widespread election of left-leaning presidents and the diffusion of conditional cash transfer programs in Latin America

(Post-)colonial Archipelagos

Comparing the Legacies of Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines

By Hans-Jürgen Burchardt & Johanna Leinius
Subjects: Political Science, Latin American Studies

The influence of Spanish colonialism on 21st century crises

Translocas

The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

By Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, American Studies, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance

Argues for the political potential of drag and trans performance in Puerto Rico and its diaspora

Performance in the Zócalo

Constructing History, Race, and Identity in Mexico's Central Square from the Colonial Era to the Present

By Ana Martínez
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Latinx Studies

Quien domina el centro, domina el pais: Whoever dominates the center, dominates the country

Divined Intervention

Religious Institutions and Collective Action

By Christopher Wayne Hale
Subjects: Political Science, Latin American Studies, Religion

A decentralized Catholic Church allows for the development of grassroots secular political activism

Zapotec Monuments and Political History

By Joyce Marcus
Subjects: Archaeology, Latin American Studies
Series: Memoirs

Remembering Archaeological Fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, 1961-2003

A Photographic Essay

By Jeffrey R. Parsons
Subjects: Archaeology, Latin American Studies
Series: Special Publication Series UMMAA

Hundreds of black-and-white photographs taken by archaeologist Jeffrey R. Parsons during decades of fieldwork illustrate now-vanished landscapes and archaeological sites of Mexico and Peru

Performance Constellations

Networks of Protest and Activism in Latin America

By Marcela A. Fuentes
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Media Studies, New Media, Latin American Studies, Political Science
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Demonstrates the power of embodied and digital networks in confronting neoliberal sociopolitical regimes in the Americas

Cueva Blanca

Social Change in the Archaic of the Valley of Oaxaca

By Kent V. Flannery & Frank Hole
Subjects: Archaeology, Latin American Studies
Series: Memoirs

Archaeologists Kent Flannery and Frank Hole report on their excavations at the famous Oaxacan site of Cueva Blanca, where humans lived more than 12,000 years ago

Freak Performances

Dissidence in Latin American Theater

By Analola Santana
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Disability Studies, American Studies, Latin American Studies, Literary Studies, Latinx Studies

Explores how theater artists challenge the legacy of colonialism in Latin America through performance

The Prism of Race

The Politics and Ideology of Affirmative Action in Brazil

By David Lehmann
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, Latin American Studies

How race quotas—and their public perception—reflect Brazil’s complicated history with racial injustice

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