Volume 8, Number 1, Fall 2010

Articles

• Students, Anarchists and Categories of Persecution in Chile, 1920
  Raymond B. Craib (Cornell University)

• War in Pieces: AMIA and The Triple Frontier in Argentine and American Discourse on Terrorism
  Nathaniel Greenberg (University of Washington—Seattle)

• Biopolitics and the Critique of Neoliberalism in “El corazón del silencio” by Tatiana Lobo
  Laura Barbas-Rhoden (Wofford College)

Debate

• The Postcolonial in Latin America and the Concept of Coloniality: A Historian’s Point of View
  Ricardo D. Salvatore (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)

Interviews

• Written in the Margins: “Doing the Job Right”. An Interview with Elena Poniatowska
  Pedro García-Caro (University of Oregon)

Reviews

Literature and Cultural Studies

• Michael J. Lazzara and Vicky Unruh, eds. “Telling Ruins in Latin America”. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.
  By Cecilia Enjuto Rangel (University of Oregon)

• Alexander Dent, “River of Tears: Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil”. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2009.
  By John Murphy (University of North Texas)

• Esther Gabara, Errant Modernism: “The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil”. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008.
  By Andrea Noble (Durham University)

Memory and Human Rights

• Samuel Brunk, “The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata: Myth, Memory, and Mexico’s Twentieth Century”. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008.
  By Paul Hart (Texas State University)

• Pedro Pitarch, Shannon Speed, and Xochitl Leyva Solano, eds. “Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements”. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008.
  By Angelina Snodgrass Godoy (University of Washington—Seattle)

• Mariana Achugar, What We Remember: “The Construction of Memory in Military Discourse”. Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publishing Company, 2008.
  By Macarena Gómez-Barris (University of Southern California)

Labor and Political History

• Aviva Chomsky, “Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class”. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008.
  By Louis Segal (University of California—Berkeley)

Colonialism in Peru

• Gonzalo Lamana, “Domination without Dominance: Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial Peru”. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008.
  By Peter Gose (Carleton University)

Revolutions

• S. Sándor John, “Bolivia’s Radical Tradition: Permanent Revolution in the Andes”. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009.
  By Ken Lehman (Hampden-Sydney College)

• Margaret Randall, “To Change the World: My Years in Cuba”. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2009.
  By Julie Shayne (University of Washington—Bothell)

Border Crossing

• Juan Javier Pescador, “Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha”. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
  By Martin Nesvig (University of Miami)

Indigenous and Afro-American Peoples

• Martin Edwin Andersen, “Peoples of the Earth: Ethnonationalism, Democracy, and the Indigenous Challenge in Latin America”. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2010.
  By José Antonio Lucero (University of Washington—Seattle)

•  Jane G. Landers, “Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions”. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.
  Kathryn Joy McKnight (University of New Mexico)

Volume 7, Number 2, Winter 2010

Articles

• Social Class and Popular Mobilization in Chile: 1970-1973
  Alan Angell (Oxford University)

• The Poetics of Revision: Tulio Mora’s Cementerio general
  Leslie Bayers (St. Mary’s College of Maryland)

• Nonsynchronism and Resistance as Praxis in Miguel Ángel Asturias
  Brian Davisson (University of California—Davis)

• The Indian Church and the Age of the Spirit: Joachimist Millenialism and fray Toribio de Motolinía’s "Historia de los indios de la Nueva España"
  Leisa Kauffmann (Wayne State University)

• Chuño Palma: A National Subject in Mother’s Time
  Zoya Khan (University of South Alabama)

Debate

• Lost in Translation: José Martí and the New American Studies
  Alfred J. López (Purdue University)

Reviews

Mexico

• Benjamin T. Smith, “Pistoleros and Popular Movements: The Politics of State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca”. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
  By Kenneth F. Maffitt (Kennesaw State University)

• William Beezley and Colin M. MacLachlan, Mexicans in Revolution, 1910-1946: An Introduction. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
  By Edward Wright-Ríos (Vanderbilt University)

• Jeffrey Bortz, Revolution within the Revolution: Cotton Textile Workers and the Mexican Labor Regime, 1910-1923. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008.
  By John Lear (University of Puget Sound)

• Lawrence Gustave Desmond, ed. “Yucatán Through Her Eyes. Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer & Expeditionary Photographer”. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
  By Gesa Mackenthun (Rostock University)

• Heather Levi, “The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity”. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008.
  By Julia Sloan (Cazenovia College)

• Ryan F. Long, “Fictions of Totality: The Mexican Novel, 1968, and the National-Popular State”. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2008.
  By Samuel Steinberg (Indiana University)

Central America

• Severo Martínez Peláez, “La Patria del Criollo: An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala”, translated by Susan M. Neve and W. George Lovell, edited and introduced by W. George Lovell and Christopher H. Lutz. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009.
  By Paul Lokken (Bryant University)

The Andean Region

• Paul Gootenberg, Andean Cocaine: “The Making of a Global Drug”. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
  By Arnold J. Bauer (University of California—Davis)

• Charles F. Walker, “Shaky Colonialism. The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru and its Long Aftermath”. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008.
  By Mariselle Meléndez (University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign)

• Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, “The Indian Militia and Description of the Indies”. Edited with an introduction by Kris Lane and translated by Timothy F. Johnson. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008.
  By Karen Vieira Powers (Independent Scholar)

Cinema Studies

• Ann Marie Stock, “On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition”. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
  By Dolores Mary Tierney (Sussex University)

• Miriam Haddu and Joanna Page, eds., “Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America”. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
  By Gabriela Martínez (University of Oregon)

• Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios, Sujetos transnacionales: la negociación en cine y literatura. Ciudad Juárez: Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, 2008.
  By Elissa J. Rashkin (Universidad Veracruzana)

Intellectual and Cultural History

• Mabel Moraña and Ignacio Sánchez Prado, eds. “El arte de la ironía: Carlos Monsiváis ante la crítica”. Mexico: Ediciones Era and UNAM, 2007.
  By Brian L. Price (Wake Forest University)

• Nicola Miller and Stephen Hart, eds. “When Was Latin American Modern?” New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
  By Paulo Drinot (University of Manchester)

• Marilyn H. Fedewa, “María of Ágreda: Mystical Lady in Blue”. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
  By Nicole von Germeten (Oregon State University)