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African Sovereigns: The Workings of Diaspora in Jamaican Maroon Communities by Mario Nisbett
RRP: $99.33$91.67Engaging the past, the present, and the future, African Sovereigns shows how the lived experience of Jamaican Maroons is linked to the African Diaspora. In so doing, this interdisciplinary undertaking interrogates the definition of Diaspora but mainly... -
The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia by Gwen Burnyeat
RRP: $108.36$90.12A multi-scale ethnography of government pedagogy in Colombia and its impact on peace. Colombia's 2016 peace agreement with the FARC guerrilla sought to end fifty years of war and won President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet Colombian... -
The Fourth Invasion: Decolonizing Histories, Extractivism, and Maya Resistance in Guatemala Giovanni Batz 9780520401730
RRP: $38.70$32.90A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, The Fourth Invasion examines an... -
Call the Mothers: Searching for Mexico's Disappeared in the War on Drugs Shaylih Muehlmann 9780520314580
RRP: $32.25$27.41A gripping portrait of the relentless women taking missing persons, kidnapping, and extortion cases into their own hands—and building a movement for one another. In this riveting exploration of the lives of mothers whose children are among the 100,000... -
The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba Jennifer L. Lambe 9781469681153
RRP: $42.51$36.13From television to travel bans, geopolitics to popular dance, The Subject of Revolution explores how knowledge about the 1959 Cuban Revolution was produced and how the Revolution in turn shaped new worldviews. Drawing on sources from over twenty archives... -
Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19 Lori A. Flores 9781469679853
RRP: $126.42$107.46Though Latinx foodways are eagerly embraced and consumed by people across the United States, the nation exhibits a much more fraught relationship with Latinx people, including the largely underpaid and immigrant workers who harvest, process, cook, and... -
Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico Claudio Lomnitz 9781478030737
$35.31Over the past fifteen years in Mexico, over 450,000 people have been murdered and 110,000 more have been disappeared. In Sovereignty and Extortion, Claudio Lomnitz examines the Mexican State in relation to this extreme violence, uncovering a reality that... -
Rio as Method: Collective Resistance for a New Generation Paul Amar 9781478031130
RRP: $34.82$29.59Rio as Method provides a new set of lenses for apprehending and transforming the world at critical junctures. Challenging trends that position global South scholars as research informants or objects, this Rio de Janeiro-based network of scholars,... -
Money Isn't Everything: Buying and Selling Sex in Twentieth-Century Argentina Patricio Simonetto 9781469681221
RRP: $126.42$107.46Just a few years before becoming President, Juan Domingo Peron penned a letter demanding the reopening of government sponsored brothels near military bases. This, he believed, was a necessary preventative for homosexuality. His letter exemplified the... -
Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands Lina-Maria Murillo 9781469682587
RRP: $126.42$107.46The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez have confronted various interest groups determined to control their reproductive lives, including... -
Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands Lina-Maria Murillo 9781469682594
RRP: $38.64$32.84The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez have confronted various interest groups determined to control their reproductive lives, including... -
Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal Julie M. Greene 9781469679471
RRP: $126.42$107.46When acclaimed labor historian Julie M. Greene researched her book The Canal Builders, which went on to be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2009, she explored a cache of first-person essays written in 1963 by the Afro-Caribbean people, mainly Jamaican... -
Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19 Lori A. Flores 9781469679860
RRP: $38.64$32.84Though Latinx foodways are eagerly embraced and consumed by people across the United States, the nation exhibits a much more fraught relationship with Latinx people, including the largely underpaid and immigrant workers who harvest, process, cook, and... -
Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal Julie M. Greene 9781469679488
RRP: $36.06$30.65When acclaimed labor historian Julie M. Greene researched her book The Canal Builders, which went on to be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2009, she explored a cache of first-person essays written in 1963 by the Afro-Caribbean people, mainly Jamaican... -
The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba Jennifer L. Lambe 9781469681146
RRP: $126.42$107.46From television to travel bans, geopolitics to popular dance, The Subject of Revolution explores how knowledge about the 1959 Cuban Revolution was produced and how the Revolution in turn shaped new worldviews. Drawing on sources from over twenty archives... -
Money Isn't Everything: Buying and Selling Sex in Twentieth-Century Argentina Patricio Simonetto 9781469681238
RRP: $45.09$38.33Just a few years before becoming President, Juan Domingo Peron penned a letter demanding the reopening of government sponsored brothels near military bases. This, he believed, was a necessary preventative for homosexuality. His letter exemplified the... -
Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to be a Puta Gabriela Leite 9781478030508
RRP: $28.37$24.11In the early 1970s, while living at home with her conservative, middle-class family and studying at the University of São Paulo, Gabriela Leite decided to become a sex worker. From her first client in a tiny room in downtown São Paulo to the launch of an... -
Rio as Method: Collective Resistance for a New Generation Paul Amar 9781478026891
RRP: $132.87$112.94Rio as Method provides a new set of lenses for apprehending and transforming the world at critical junctures. Challenging trends that position global South scholars as research informants or objects, this Rio de Janeiro-based network of scholars,... -
Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to be a Puta Gabriela Leite 9781478026273
RRP: $116.10$98.69In the early 1970s, while living at home with her conservative, middle-class family and studying at the University of São Paulo, Gabriela Leite decided to become a sex worker. From her first client in a tiny room in downtown São Paulo to the launch of an...