New Books in Latin American Studies

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Interview with Scholars of Latin America about their New BooksSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/latin-american-studies

Recent Episodes
  • Fernando Pérez-Montesinos, "Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands" (U Texas Press, 2025)
    Jun 7, 2025 – 01:15:56
  • Lina Pinto-García, "Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
    May 31, 2025 – 01:04:34
  • Maya Mayblin "Vote of Faith: Democracy, Desire, and the Turbulent Lives of Priest Politicians" (Fordham UP, 2024)
    May 30, 2025 – 01:23:46
  • M. Myrta Leslie Santana, Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
    May 20, 2025 – 58:47
  • Andrew Ofstehage, "Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado" (Cornell UP, 2025)
    May 19, 2025 – 46:19
  • Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Diaz, "Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
    May 17, 2025 – 48:49
  • Maron E. Greenleaf, "Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon" (Duke UP, 2024)
    May 10, 2025 – 49:46
  • William Jennings, "Dibia's World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
    May 10, 2025 – 49:02
  • Stephanie Schmidt, "Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain: Missionary Narratives, Nahua Perspectives" (U Texas Press, 2025)
    May 6, 2025 – 51:20
  • Diana Graizbord, "Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2024)
    May 2, 2025 – 52:44
  • Television, Translation, and Algorithms on Netflix
    Apr 28, 2025 – 55:56
  • Lorna Gibb, "Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages" (Princeton UP, 2025)
    Apr 26, 2025 – 39:47
  • Daniel A. Rodriguez, "The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana" (U North Carolina Press, 2020)
    Apr 21, 2025 – 51:58
  • Enrique C. Ochoa, "México Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
    Apr 19, 2025 – 01:10:28
  • María de Los Ángeles Picone, "Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina" (UNC Press, 2025)
    Apr 16, 2025 – 01:08:53
  • Engage and Evade in 2025: Asad L. Asad on Latino Immigrants in America
    Apr 12, 2025 – 51:48
  • Ieva Jusionyte on American Guns in Mexico: Exit Wounds (EF, JP)
    Apr 3, 2025 – 59:35
  • Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy
    Apr 1, 2025 – 01:02:10
  • Vanessa Freije, "Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico" (Duke UP, 2020)
    Mar 30, 2025 – 01:05:35
  • Amy Cox Hall, "The Taste of Nostalgia: Women, Race, and Culinary Longing in Peru" (U Texas Press, 2025)
    Mar 21, 2025 – 51:20
  • Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, "The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It" (Basic Books, 2024)
    Mar 19, 2025 – 01:02:13
  • Coup Attempts and Democratic Resistance: Lessons from Brazil
    Mar 8, 2025 – 37:59
  • Vera Tiesler, "Ancient Maya Teeth: Dental Modification, Cosmology, and Social Identity in Mesoamerica" (U Texas Press, 2024)
    Mar 5, 2025 – 47:05
  • Rebecca Janzen, "Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
    Mar 5, 2025 – 59:51
  • Aliyah Khan on the Muslim Caribbean
    Feb 28, 2025 – 52:59
  • Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
    Feb 19, 2025 – 57:12
  • Luiz Valério P. Trindade, "Hate Speech and Abusive Behaviour on Social Media: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" (Vernon Press, 2024)
    Feb 15, 2025 – 49:00
  • Magnus Course, "Three Ways to Fail: Journeys Through Mapuche Chile" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
    Feb 13, 2025 – 01:16:52
  • Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
    Feb 6, 2025 – 01:07:44
  • Greg Childs on Seditious Conspiracy (EF, JP)
    Jan 23, 2025 – 34:39
  • Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin. "Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum" (NYU Press, 2024)
    Jan 20, 2025 – 41:19
  • Andrew Laird, "Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Jan 18, 2025 – 43:45
  • Byron Ellsworth Hamann, "The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781–1844" (Getty, 2022)
    Jan 18, 2025 – 52:27
  • Victor M. Valle, "The Poetics of Fire: Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands" (U New Mexico Press, 2023)
    Jan 17, 2025 – 01:21:25
  • Benjamin H. Bradlow, "Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg" (Princeton UP, 2024)
    Jan 13, 2025 – 51:47
  • Andrew Gomez, "Constructing Cuban America: Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945" (U Texas Press, 2024)
    Jan 13, 2025 – 46:17
  • Jorge Duany, "Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Jan 12, 2025 – 01:25:23
  • Edward Jones Corredera, "Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Jan 10, 2025 – 48:25
  • Alex Cuadros, "When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon" (Grand Central Publishing, 2024)
    Jan 8, 2025 – 29:10
  • Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" (Faber and Faber, 2020)
    Jan 7, 2025 – 44:22
  • Theresa Keeley, "Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America" (Cornell UP, 2020)
    Jan 6, 2025 – 47:24
  • Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019)
    Jan 4, 2025 – 01:09:02
  • Benjamin T. Smith, "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
    Jan 3, 2025 – 46:39
  • Randy M. Browne, "The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
    Dec 31, 2024 – 01:07:25
  • Matthew Chin, "Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2024)
    Dec 22, 2024 – 01:00:24
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    Dec 20, 2024 – 01:06:44
  • Ana Lucia Araujo, "Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
    Dec 12, 2024 – 01:14:23
  • Elyse Ona Singer, "Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2022)
    Dec 6, 2024 – 50:30
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    Nov 30, 2024 – 51:39
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    Nov 21, 2024 – 45:27
Recent Reviews
  • WillisttheIllest
    Great serve, but not intellectually/values diverse
    I’ve gone back-and-forth on this show over the years. I love the service they provide their audience and enjoy it a lot. I do find the particular authors they invite our… Overly political and of a particular academic culture. This does affect my ability to enjoy the material, as I think it doesn’t always give a fair stance on traditional European culture which is the second half of Latin American culture. So my take is that they are great hosts of Latin conversations but though a particularly American lense.
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