Volume 21, Number 2, July – December 2010

Articles

• Erasing Men from "Álbum de familia" by Rosario Castellanos
  Victoria Carpenter, University of Derby

Book Reviews

• “The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary” Erin Graff Zivin:  Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2008.
  Amalia Ran, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Tel Aviv University

• “The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity” Heather Levi: Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008.
  Linda Ledford-Miller, University of Scranton

• “Imagining la Chica Moderna. Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917-1936” Johanne Hershfield: Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008.
  Adela Pineda Franco, Boston University

• “Runaway Daughters: Seduction, Elopement, and Honor in Nineteenth-Century Mexico” Kathryn A. Sloan: Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
  Jennie Purnell, Boston College

• “Lydia’s Open Door: Inside Mexico’s Most Modern Brothel” Patty Kelly:  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
  Robert M. Buffington, University of Colorado at Boulder

• “Cuba and the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos” Louis A. Pérez Jr.: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
  Jana K. Lipman, Tulane University

• “Tree of Hate: Propaganda and Prejudices Affecting United States Relations with the Hispanic World” Philip Wayne Powell: Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
  Philip Brenner and C. Althea Skinner, American University

• “Empire and Dissent: The United States and Latin America” Fred Rosen (ed.): Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.
  Gregory Weeks, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• “Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in the United States” David Luis-Brown:  Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.
  María del Carmen Martínez, University of Wisconsin at Parkside

• “Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class” Aviva Chomsky: Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.
  Steve Striffler, University of New Orleans

• “Metropolitan Migrants: The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States” Rubén Hernández-León: Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
  Mariano Sana, Vanderbilt University

• “To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador, 1920-1932” Jeffrey L. Gould and Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago: Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.
  Robin DeLugan, University of California at Merced

• “Indians and Leftists: in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements” Marc Becker: Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.
  Jean Muteba Rahier, Florida International University

• “Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization” Jim Shultz and Melissa Crane Draper (eds.):  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
  Josefa Salmón, Loyola University

• “The Indian Militia and Description of the Indies” Bernardo De Vargas Machuca: Edited and with an introduction by Kris Lane and translated by Timothy F. Johnson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.
  Matthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University

• “Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico” María Elena Martínez: Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008.
  Martha Few, University of Arizona

• “Artesanos y manufactureros en Lima” Francisco Quiroz Chueca. Lima: Banco Central de Reserva del Perú e Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2008.
  Susan M. Socolow, Emory University

Volume 21, Number 1, Year 2010
History and Translation in Latin America
Guest Editors: Tal Goldfajn, Ori Preuss, Rosalie Sitman

Articles

• Introduction or Why Should Historians of Modern Latin America Take Translation Seriously?
  Tal Goldfajn, Tel Aviv University; Ori Preuss Tel Aviv University; Rosalie Sitman, Tel Aviv University

• Translation in History: Some Comments
  Peter Burke, Cambridge University

• Foundational Scenes of Translation
  Sergio Waisman, The George Washington University

• Buscando un traductor: The Joys and Challenges of Translating Alberto Flores Galindo
  Charles F. Walker, University of California, Davis

Book Reviews

• Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship: “Networks and Private Protection during Mexico’s Early Industrialization”. Armando Razo: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2008

• “The Cuban Connection: Drug Trafficking, Smuggling, and Gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolu”, Eduardo Sáenz Rovner. Translated by Russ Davidson. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008

• “In From the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War”, Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniela Spenser: Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2008

• “American Empire and the Politics of Meaning”, Julian Go: Durham & London, Duke University Press, 2008

• “A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952”, Laura Gotkowitz:  Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007

• “People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru”, David Cook Noble with Alexandra Parma Cook: Durham & London, Duke University Press, 2007

• “The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba”, Lisa Yun: Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2008

• “Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops”, Ginetta E. B. Candelario: Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2007

• “Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras”, Adrienne Pine: Berkeley, University of California Press, 2008

• “Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence”. Leigh A. Payne: Durham & London, Duke University Press, 2008

• “Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon”. Lynn Stephen: Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2007

• “Judging Policy: Courts and Policy Reform in Democratic Brazil”. Matthew M. Taylor: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2008

• “Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles”. Thomas Glave (ed.): Duke University Press, 2008

• “Dead Subjects: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies”. Antonio Viego: Durham & London, Duke University Press, 2007

• “Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath”, Charles F. Walker:  Durham, NC & London, Duke University Press, 2008

• “Deconstructing Legitimacy: Viceroys, Merchants, and the Military in Late Colonial Peru”, Patricia H. Marks: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007

• “The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo”, David Carrasco (ed.): Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2008

• “Homo Politicus. Manuel Pardo, La Política Peruana y Sus Dilemas, 1871-1878”, Carmen Mcevoy: Lima: Instituto Riva Aguero, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, y Oficina Nacional de Procesos Electorales, 2007