Volume 7, Number 1, Fall 2009

New Publications on the 19th Century

• Kathryn A. Sloan, “Runaway Daughters: Seduction, Elopement, and Honor in Nineteenth-Century Mexico”. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
  By Ann Blum (University of Massachusetts—Boston)

• Jeffrey Mosher, “Political Struggle, Ideology, and State Building: Pernambuco and the Construction of Brazil, 1817-1850”. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
  By Justin Barber (University of New Mexico)

• Pamela S. Murray, For Glory and Bolívar: the Remarkable Life of Manuela Sáenz 1797-1856. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008.
  By Natalia Sobrevilla Perea (University of Kent)

Reviews

Race and Nationalism

• Estelle Tarica, “The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism”. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
  By Jorge Coronado (Northwestern University)

• Micol Seigel, “Uneven Encounters. Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States”. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.
  By Marc A. Hertzman (Wesleyan University)

Cultural and Intellectual History

• Michael Casey, “Che's Afterlife: the Legacy of an Image”. New York: Vintage Books, 2009.
  By Lincoln Cushing (Art Historian)

• Dan Hagedorn, “Conquistadors of the Sky: A History of Aviation in Latin America”. Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2008.
  By Willie Hiatt (Rhodes College)

Mexico and Central America

• Tanalís Padilla, “Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata: The Jaramillista Movement and the Myth of the Pax Priísta, 1940-1962”. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
  By Samuel Brunk (University of Texas—El Paso)

• Jeffrey L. Gould and Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago, “To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador, 1920-1932”. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
  By Michael J. Schroeder (Lebanon Valley College)

• Robert Buffington and Pablo Piccato, eds., “True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico”. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
  By Paul J. Vanderwood (San Diego State University)

United States and Latin America

• Fred Rosen, ed., “Empire and Dissent: The United States and Latin America”. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
  By James Siekmeier (West Virginia University)

Ethnicity, Citizenship and Representation

• José Antonio Lucero, “Struggles of Voice: The Politics of Indigenous Representation in the Andes”. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.
  By Gabriela Hoberman (Florida International University)

• Arturo Escobar, “Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes”. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.
  By Bettina Ng'weno (University of California—Davis)

Human Rights and Social Justice

• Kathleen Staudt, “Violence and Activism at the Border. Gender, Fear, and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juárez”. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008.
  By Verónica Zebadua-Yáñez (New School for Social Research)

• Frank M. Afflitto and Paul Jesilow, “The Quiet Revolutionaries: Seeking Justice in Guatemala”. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007.
  By James Loucky (Western Washington University)

• Ileana Rodríguez, “Liberalism at its Limits. Crime and Terror in the Latin American Cultural Text”. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.
  By Jean Franco (Columbia University)

Volume 6, Number 3, Spring 2009

Articles

• Cultural Studies and the Field of ‘Spanish’ in the US Academy
  Robert McKee Irwin and Mónica Szurmuk (University of California—Davis/Instituto Mora)

• Giving Voice to the Voiceless? Second Thoughts on Testimony in Transitional Justice
  Franka Winter (Universität Hamburg)

Opinion

• Plazas
  Francine Masiello (University of California—Berkeley)

Reviews

Mexico Past and Present

• Author's Response to Review of “A Glorious Defeat”
  Timothy J. Henderson (Auburn University)

• Contesting Caricature: A Discussion about the Mexican-American War
  Feather Crawford Freed (University of Oregon)

• A Collaborative Journey through the “Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No.2”
  Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood (University of Oregon)

• Ambivalent caudillo? Reinterpreting Santa Anna of Mexico
  Michael Ducey (Universidad Veracruzana/University of Colorado—Denver)

• Revisiting Conquest and Mestizaje in Mexican Contemporary Cultural Production
  Mary-Lee Mulholland (University of Calgary)

Art and Literature

• Hiding in Plain Sight: The Case for Academic Study of Postage Stamps
  Lincoln Cushing (Art Historian)

• Neoliberalism and Chile’s Public Imagination
  Michael J. Lazzara (University of California—Davis)

Race, Nation and Empire

• The Political Cultures of Empire
  Ileana María Rodríguez-Silva (University of Washington)

• Centers and Peripheries of U.S. Hispanism
  Christopher Schmidt-Nowara (Fordham University)

Indigenous Peoples, Rural History, and the State

• Mapping the Foundations of a Modern Social Movement
  Nicola Foote (Florida Gulf Coast University)

• The Rural Origins of State Autonomy in Nicaragua
  Michel Gobat (University of Iowa)

Volume 6, Number 2, Winter 2009

Articles

• Epic, Novel, and Subjectivity in Chejfec’s “Lenta biografía”
  Jonathan Dettman (University of California—Davis)

• Images of Truth: Art as a Medium for Recounting Peru’s Internal War
  Cynthia E. Milton (Université de Montréal)

• Interpellation, Inversion, Identification: The Making of Sexual Diversity in Latin American Literature
  Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh)

• Roberto Arlt’s Alter-travelogue against the Backdrop of Rio de Janeiro
  Steven P. Sloan (Texas Christian University)

• Social Images of Anti-Apocalypse: Bikers and the Representation of Popular Politics in Venezuela
  Luis Duno-Gottberg (Rice University)

Notes

• Vargas Llosa, Von Hayek, Libertarian Dogmas High and Low, and my Prophetic Spoofs Thereof
  Gene H. Bell-Villada (Williams College)

Reviews

• Literature, Culture, and the Arts

• Textual Ensembles and Mexican Lives
  Edward F. Fischer (Vanderbilt University)

• Where Art, Politics, Poetry, and Pedagogy Converge
  Gina McDaniel Tarver (University of Texas—Austin)

• Tools for Teaching Colonial Art History to U.S. Audiences
  Ray Hernández-Durán (University of New Mexico)

• Seeking the Universal Dark Feminine
  Kelly Donahue-Wallace (University of North Texas)

Ethnicity and Identity

• The Lion King vs. Evo Morales? Adventures in the Andean Vision World
  José Antonio Lucero (University of Washington)

• After Neoliberalism and Multiculturalism in Bolivia
  María Elena García (University of Washington)

National and Transnational Histories

• Revisiting nationalism on the Peru-Chile border
  Iñigo García-Bryce (New Mexico State University)

• Rethinking the Americas in a Globalized World: Connections and Divisions
  Elliott Young (Lewis and Clark College)

• The Mexican-American War Through Another (Old) Lens
  Feather Crawford Freed (University of Oregon)

Human Rights, Memory, and Representation

• Photography and the Battle for Guatemala’s Memory
  Victoria Sanford(CUNY—Lehman College )

• Environmental and Public Health. Nature’s Place in (Writing) Latin American History
  Ida Day and Luis Correa-Díaz (University of Georgia)

• No Magic Bullets for Malaria in Mexico
  Alexandra Puerto (Occidental College)

• Empire, Sovereignty, and the Law in Latin American Independence
  Karen Racine (University of Guelph)

• An Oxford Don Looks at the History of Communism (but fails to see Latin America)
  Louis Segal (Independent Scholar)

• A Case for Gilberto Freyre as Brazil’s Uomo Universale
  Malcolm K. McNee (Smith College)

• Gilberto Freyre and Latin American Studies
  Richard A. Gordon (Ohio State University)