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New at the Library
New at the Library: July - December 2024
Compiled by Ida Martinez and Jillian Cole (GSA)
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Latinx Studies
Against the American Grain: A Borderlands History of Resistance
Gary Paul Nabhan
University of New Mexico Press
Becoming La Raza: Negotiating Race in the Chican@ Movement(s)
José G. Izaguirre III
Pennsylvania State University Press
Becoming the System: A Raciolinguistic Genealogy of Bilingual Education in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Nelson Flores
Oxford University Press
Chicago Latina Trailblazers: Testimonios of Political Activism
Edited by Rita D. Hernandez, Leticia Villarreal Sosa, and Elena R. Gutierrez
University of Illinois Press
Children of Color in the Child Welfare System: Psychological Research and Best Practices
Yvette R. Harris and Gloria Oliver Carpenter
American Psychological Association
Colonizing Ourselves: Tejano Back-To-Mexico Movements and the Making of a Settler Colonial Nation
José Angel Hernández
University of Oklahoma Press
Dominican American Politics: Immigrants, Activists, and Politicians
Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco
Routledge
Empathy and Performance: Enactments of Power in Latinx America
Laura V. Sández
Vanderbilt University Press
Frontera Madre(hood): Brown Mothers Challenging Oppression and Transborder Violence at the U. S.-Mexico Border
Cynthia Bejarano and Maria Cristina Morales
University of Arizona Press
A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Sarah Mayorga
University of Chicago Press
How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America
Laura C. Chávez-Moreno
Harvard Education Press
The Latino Big Bang in California: The Diary of Justo Veyita, a Mexican Forty-Niner
Hayes-Bautista, D., Chamberlin, C.L., Gray, P.B. (Eds.)
University of New Mexico Press
The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy
Mike Madrid
Simon & Schuster
Mother Archive: A Dominican Family Memoir
Erika Morillo
University of Iowa Press
Mutuality in el Barrio: Stories of the Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service
Carey Kasten, Brenna Moore, and Norma Benítez Sánchez
Fordham University Press
Performing with the Dead: Trances and Traces
Christopher 'Kit' Danowski
Intellect
Raid and Reconciliation: Pancho Villa, Modernization, and Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Brandon Morgan
University of Nebraska Press
Shearing Sheep and Angora Goats the Texas Way: Legacy of Pride
Robert Aguero and Arnoldo De León
Texas A&M University Press
Testimonios of Care: Feminist Latina/x and Chicana/x Perspectives on Caregiving Praxis
Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Yvette G. Flores, and Angie Chabram
University of Arizona Press
Working en Comunidad: Service-Learning and Community Engagement with U. S. Latinas/os/es
Elena Foulis, Stacey Alex, and Glenn A. Martínez
University of Arizona Press
The Wound and the Stitch: A Genealogy of the Female Body from Medieval Iberia to Socal Chicanx Art
Loretta Victoria Ramirez
Pennsylvania State University Press
Latin American Studies
Abortion in Mexico: A History
Nora E. Jaffary
University of Nebraska Press
Amplifications of Black Sound from Colonial Mexico: Vocality and Beyond
Sarah Finley
Vanderbilt University Press
Animal Matter: Ritual, Place, and Sovereignty at the Moon Pyramid of Teotihuacan
Nawa Sugiyama
Oxford University Press
Blessed Are the Activists: Catholic Advocacy, Human Rights, and Genocide in Guatemala
Michael J. Cangemi
University of Alabama Press
The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History
Christine Folch
Princeton University Press
Che Guevara: The Romantic Revolutionary
Allan Todd
Pen & Sword Books
Decades of Rebellion: Volume 1: Mexican Military Aviation in the Rebellions of The 1920s
Santiago Flores and M. Reyna Garza
Helion & Company, Limited
Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature
Rosario Hubert
Northwestern University Press
The Evolving Geography of Productivity and Employment: Ideas for Inclusive Growth Through a Territorial Lens in Latin America and the Caribbean
Elena Ianchovichina
World Bank Publications
From Havana to Hollywood : Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary
Philip Kaisary
State University of New York Press
Indigenous Materials in Libraries and the Curriculum
Javier Muñoz-Díaz, Kathia Ibacache, and Leila Gómez
Taylor & Francis Group
Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas
Renee Hudson
Fordham University Press
A Leader-Centered Theory of Foreign Policy Change: U. S. Foreign Policy Toward Cuba under Obama
Klaus Brummer
Bristol University Press
Living Together Across Borders: Communicative Care in Transnational Salvadoran Families
Lynnette Arnold
Oxford University Press
Making a Place for the Future in Maya Guatemala: Natural Disaster and Sociocultural Change in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán
John P. Hawkins and Walter Randolph Adams
University of New Mexico Press
Music and Cosmopolitanism: Rio de Janeiro at the Turn of the 20th Century
Cristina Magaldi
Oxford University Press
Nahuatl Nations: Language Revitalization and Semiotic Sovereignty in Indigenous Mexico
Magnus Pharao Hansen
Oxford University Press
Pandemic and Narration: Covid-19 Narratives in Latin America
Andrea Espinoza Carvajal and Luis A. Medina Cordova
Vernon Art and Science Inc.
Populism and Time: Temporalities of a Disruptive Politics
Andy Knott
Edinburgh University Press
Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know
Jorge Duany
Oxford University Press
Return from the World: Economic Growth and Reverse Migration in Brazil
Gregory Duff Morton
University of Chicago Press
The Rights of Nature and the Testimony of Things: Literature and Environmental Ethics from Latin America
Mark Anderson
Vanderbilt University Press
Roberto Alomar: The Complicated Life and Legacy of a Baseball Hall of Famer
David Ostrowsky
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Silver Thieves, Tin Barons, and Conquistadors
Mary Van Buren
University of Arizona Press
Slow Harms and Citizen Action: Environmental Degradation and Policy Change in Latin American Cities
Veronica Herrera
Oxford University Press
Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins
Moisés Kopper and Matthew A. Richmond
Berghahn Books
Urban Power : Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg
Benjamin H. Bradlow
Princeton University Press
"We, the Barbarians": Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century
Mabel Moraña and Stephanie Kirk
Vanderbilt University Press
Literature and Lit Criticism
Bodies of Water: Queer Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
Geoggrey Maguire
SUNY Press
Carmen Boullosa: in Between Brooklyn and Coyoacan
María del Mar López-Cabrales and María Rosario Matz
Vernon Art & Science
Christopher Oscar Peña: Three Plays
christopher oscar peña & Mark Armstrong
Bloomsbury Publishing
The Dark Side of Skin
Jeferson Tenório & Bruna Dantas Lobato
Charco Press
Eduardo Halfon and the Itinerary of Memory
Marilyn G. Miller
Vanderbilt University Press
Explorers Dreamers and Thieves: Latin American Writers in the British Museum
Carolina Orloff
Charco Press
Flesh and Spirit: Confessions of a Young Lord
Felipe Luciano
Fordham University Press
Glória
Victor Heringer, Sophie Lewis, & James Young
Peirene Press
The Great Zoo: A Bilingual Edition
Nicolás Guillén & Aaron Coleman
University of Chicago Press
If Today Were Tomorrow: Poems
Humberto Ak'abal & Michael Bazzett
Milkweed Editions
Imaginative Possibilities: Conversations with Twenty-First-Century Latinx Writers
Maceo Montoya & Javier O. Huerta
University of Pittsburgh Press
In Defense of Common Life: The Political Thought of Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar
Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar, Brian Whitener, & J. D. Pluecker
Common Notions
Kidnapped to the Underworld: Memories of Xibalba
Víctor Montejo and Sean S. Sell
University of Arizona Press
Latin American Digital Poetics
Scott Weintraub & Luis Correa-Díaz
Springer International Publishing AG
Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas
Vanessa K. Valdés & Earl E. Fitz
SUNY Press
The Molino: A Memoir
Melani Martinez
University of Arizona Press
The Murmuration
Carlos Labbé & Will Vanderhyden
Open Letter Books
New Testaments: Stories
Dagoberto Gilb
City Lights Books
Once upon Argentina
Andrés Neuman, Nick Caistor, & Garcia Lorenza
Open Letter
The Plains
Federico Falco & Jennifer Croft
Charco Press
They Call You Back: A Lost History, a Search, a Memoir
Tim Z. Hernandez
University of Arizona Press
Time of the Flies
Claudia Piñeiro & Frances Riddle
Charco Press
Translation As Home: A Multilingual Life
Ilan Stavans and Regina Galasso
University of Toronto Press
Translation of the Route: Traducción de la Ruta
Laura Wittner and Juana Adcock
Bloodaxe Books