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New at the Library: January - June 2024
Compiled by Ida Martinez and Jillian Cole
Browse the newest Latino/a & Latin American Studies eBooks acquired by the Wayne State University Library System.
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Latinx Studies
Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship
University of North Carolina Press
Writing That Matters: A Handbook for Chicanx and Latinx Studies
University of Arizona Press
Chicana Liberation: Women and Mexican American Politics in Los Angeles, 1945-1981
University of Illinois Press
Bracero 2.0: Mexican Workers in North American Agriculture
Oxford University Press
Crossing Digital Fronteras: Rehumanizing Latinx Education and Digital Humanities
State University of New York Press
Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento: Spiritual Artivism, Healing Justice, and Feminist Praxis
University of Arizona Press
Voices of the Border: Testimonios of Migration, Deportation, and Asylum
Georgetown University Press
Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami
University of Pennsylvania Press
Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin
University of Illinois Press
Resistance and Abolition in the Borderlands: Confronting Trump's Reign of Terror
University of Arizona Press
Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border
University of California Press
Latin American Studies
The Other Border Wars: Conflict and Stasis in Latin American Culture
University of Pittsburgh Press
Embracing Autonomy: Latin American-US Relations in the Twenty-First Century
University of New Mexico Press
Blessed Are the Activists: Catholic Advocacy, Human Rights, and Genocide in Guatemala
University of Alabama Press
Politics and the Pink Tide: A Comparative Analysis of Protest in Latin America
University of Notre Dame Press
Boundaries of Belonging: English Jamaica and the Spanish Caribbean, 1655-1715
University of Pennsylvania Press
Connecting China, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Infrastructure and Everyday Life
University of Pittsburgh Press
The Creation of Modern Buenos Aires: Football, Civic Associations, Barrios, and Politics, 1912-1943
University of New Mexico Press
Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas : Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community
Indiana University Press
Equality and the City: Urban Innovations for All Citizens
University of Pennsylvania Press
Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity
University of Pittsburgh Press
Gringos Get Rich: Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music
University of Alabama Press
Histories of the Present: People and Power in Ecuador
University of Illinois Press
Indigenous Audibilities: Music, Heritage, and Collections in the Americas
Oxford University Press
Listening to Others: Eduardo Coutinho's Documentary Cinema
State University of New York Press
Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico
University of North Carolina Press
Many Rivers to Cross: Black Migrations in Brazil and the Caribbean
Vernon Art and Science Inc.
Maricas: Queer Cultures and State Violence in Argentina and Spain, 1942-1982
University of Nebraska Press
Natural Designs: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature
University of Pennsylvania Press
Popular Politics and Protest Event Analysis in Latin America
University of New Mexico Press
Puerto Rico: A National History
Princeton University Press
Soul by Soul: The Evangelical Mission to Spread the Gospel to Muslims
Columbia Global Reports
Struggles for Liberation in Abya Yala
John Wiley & Sons
A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal
Princeton University Press
Viruses and Reproductive Injustice: Zika in Brazil
Johns Hopkins University Press
Biocosmism: Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Vanerbilt University Press
Contemporary Colonialities in Mexico and Beyond
University of Toronto Press
Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist: A Critical History of Women, Patriarchy, and Mexican National Discourse
Vanderbilt University Press
Five Suns: A Fire History of Mexico
University of Arizona Press
Guardians of Discourse: Journalism and Literature in Porfirian Mexico
University of Nebraska Press
Indigenous Science and Technology: Nahuas and the World Around Them
University of Arizona Press
Mexico, Slavery, Freedom: A Bilingual Documentary History, 1520-1829
Hackett Publishing Company
Shelter on the Journey: Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Migration
Temple University Press
The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis
Oxford University Press
Transformative Violence: When Routine Cruelty Sparks Historic Mobilization
Oxford University Press
Politically Animated: Non-fiction Animation from the Hispanic World
University of Toronto Press
Literature and Literary Criticism
Águila : The Vision, Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Two-Spirit Shaman in the Ozark Mountains
Biography
University of Arkansas Press
Anything but Novel: Pushing the Margins in Latin American Post-Utopian Historical Narrative
University of Alabama Press
Bad Mexican, Bad American: Poems
Acre Books
The Bullet Swallower: A Novel
Simon & Schuster
Defining and Defying Borders : Tracing Hispanism Across Literary Magazines
University of Toronto Press
The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist
Biography
PM Press
The Last Philosopher in Texas: Fictions and Superstitions
Arte Publico Press
Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood
Biography
OR Books, LLC
Litany of Saints : A Triptych
Fiction
Arte Publico Press
Makeshift Altar: Poems
University Press of Kentucky
My Chicano Heart: New and Collected Stories of Love and Other Transgressions
University of Nevada Press
Nostalgia Doesn't Flow Away Like Riverwater
Deep Vellum Publishing
Ojo en Celo / Eye in Heat: Poems
University of Arizona Press
Santa Tarantula
Poetry
University of Notre Dame Press
Yaguareté White: Poems
University of Arizona Press
Where Are You From: Letters to My Son
University of Nebraska Press