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New at the Library: January - July 2025
Compiled by Ida Martinez, Jillian Cole (GSA), and Noelle Wade (GSA)
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Latinx Studies
Archer M. Huntington: Founder of the Hispanic Society of America
Syracuse University Press
Art Borderlands in Theory, Practice, and Teaching
Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19
University of North Carolina Press
Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad
Duke University Press
Constructed Movements: Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities
University of California Press
Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools
Oxford University Press
Emergency: COVID-19 and the Uneven Valuation of Life
University of Chicago Press
Hispanic Pop Culture in Translation
Routledge, Taylor & Francis
How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America
Harvard Education Press
Latino Colorado
University Press of Colorado
LatinX Students in Higher Education
Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Masculinity at the Movies
Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Narrative Writing with Latinx Teens: Testimonios, Texts, and Teaching
Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare
Johns Hopkins University Press
Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art: A Critical Anthology
Duke University Press
The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice
Duke University Press
Poverty Rebels: Black and Brown Protest in Post–Civil Rights America
University of North Carolina Press
Rebuilding New Orleans: Immigrant Laborers and Street Food Vendors in the Post-Katrina Era
University of North Carolina Press
Shifting Allegiances: The Election of Latino Republicans to Congress and State Legislatures
Cambridge University Press
¡Somos Tejanas!: Chicana Identity and Culture in Texas
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2025.
The Streets of Laredo: Texas Modernity and Its Discontents
Texas A&M University Press
Warriors for Social Justice: Maria Jiménez of Houston and Mexican American Activists
University of North Texas Press
Los Yarderos: Mexican Yard Workers in Transborder Chicago
University of Illinois Press
Latin American Studies
Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State
Duke University Press
Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Latin America
Cambridge University Press
Alive in Their Garden: The True Story of the Mirabal Sisters and Their Fight for Freedom
University of Florida Press
Argentina and the Jews: A History of Jewish Immigration
University of Alabama Press
Au Te Waate / We Remember It: Hiaki Survival Through Bitter War
The University of Arizona Press
Banana Capital: Stories, Science, and Poison at the Equator
University of Regina
Beyond Disaster: Building Collective Futures in Puerto Rico
Northwestern University Press
Black Freedom and Education in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
University of Florida Press
Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal
University of North Carolina Press
Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Vanderbilt University Press
The Collapse of Venezuela: Scorched Earth Politics and Economic Decline, 2012-2020
University of Notre Dame Press
Coups d'État in Cold War Latin America, 1964-1982
Cambridge University Press
The Cradle of Words: Language and Knowledge in the Spanish Empire
Johns Hopkins University Press
Crisis by Design: Emergency Powers and Colonial Legality in Puerto Rico
Stanford University Press
Cuba's Cosmopolitan Enclaves: Imperialism in Eastern Sugar Towns
University of Florida Press
Cuentan Las Pibas : Narrativas Infanto-Juveniles de la Generación Posdictadura en Argentina
Editorial A Contracorriente
Echoes of the Water Wars: Legacies of Cochabamba, Bolivia
Common Notions
Escrituras Sin Rostro: El Antagonismo Como Estrategia Subversiva del Zapatismo
University of North Carolina Press
Evanira Mendes: A Voice from the Brazilian Folklore Movement
University Press of Mississippi
Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination During the Civil War Era
University of North Carolina Press
Fighting Grand Corruption: Transnational and Human Rights Approaches in Latin America and Beyond
Cambridge University Press
First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas
Northwestern University Press
Freedom's Horizon: Black Abolitionism in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
University of Pennsylvania Press
Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia: Settler Colonialism from the Margins
Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
Globalization in Latin America
Cambridge University Press
History of Journalism in Latin America
Routledge
Imaginando el Fin de Los Tiempos: Poéticas y Figuraciones Sobre Los Mundos y Sus Extinciones
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
In Place of Mobility: Railroads, Rebels, and Migrants in an Argentine-Chilean Borderland
University of North Carolina Press
Incumbency Bias: Why Political Office is a Blessing and a Curse in Latin America
Cambridge University Press
Indigenous Sacraments: Christian Rituals and Local Responses at the Fringes of Spanish America, 1529-1800
University of Nebraska Press
Land Use - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I
Bielefled University Press
Learning Through Collective Memory Work: Troubling Testimonio in Post-War Peru
Bristol University Press
Liberation Theology and Praxis in Contemporary Latin America: As it was in the Beginning?
University of London Press
Low-Cost Fashion: The Political Economy of Garment Production and Distribution in Latin America
Cambridge University Press
Luteranismo en el Caribe: La Misión Luterana en Puerto Rico
Lanham : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Mapping Diversity in Latin America: Race and Ethnicity from Colonial Times to the Present
Vanderbilt University Press
Mars on Earth: Wanderings in the World's Driest Desert
RMB Rocky Mountain Books
Men of God: Mendicant Orders in Colonial Mexico
University of Nebraska Press
Mexican Spanish in the Twentieth Century: Stratification and Variation
Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Military Rule in Latin America
Routledge
Modern Art in 1940s Cuba: Havana's Artists, Critics, and Exhibitions
University of Florida Press
The Mosquito Confederation: A Borderlands History of Colonial Central America
University of Georgia Press
Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil
University of North Carolina Press
Net Values: Environmental, Economic, and Social Entanglements in the Gulf of California
University of Arizona Press
New Approaches to Latin American Studies
Routledge, Taylor & Francis
The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire
Duke University Press
The Olavo de Carvalho Reader
Academica Press
Performing Citizenship in Postdictatorship Chile: Cultural Policy and the Making of Political Dramaturgies
Northwestern University Press
Periodicals in Latin America: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Serialized Print Culture
University of Florida Press
Poverty in Latin America: Feelings/Perceptions vs Material Conditions
Cambridge University Press
Profitable Offices: Corruption, Anticorruption, and the Formation of Venezuela's Neopatrimonial State, 1908-1948
University of Pittsburgh Press
Queer Emergent: Scandalous Stories from the Twilight of AIDS in Peru
Duke University Press
Religion in the Américas: Trans-Hemispheric and Transcultural Approaches
University of New Mexico Press
The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Squatter Life: Persistence at the Urban Margins of Buenos Aires
Duke University Press
The Struggle for the Market: Life and Hustle in Cuba's New Economy
University of Pennsylvania Press
The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean
University of Pennsylvania Pres
That Futebol Feeling: Sport and Play in Brazil's Heartland
Temple University Press
Underground Politics: Gold Mining and State-Making in Colombia
University of Pennsylvania Press
Water - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America IV
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag
Words Made Flesh: Language, Body, and Conversion in Colonial Latin America
University of Pennsylvania Press
The Years of Blood: Stories from a Reporting Life in Latin America
Duke University Press
Literature and Lit Criticism
Against Borges: Four Women Writers of His Inner Circles
Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
Atravesados: Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature
University Press of Mississippi
City of Smoke and Sea: A Novel
Pasadena: Red Hen Press
Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence
Duke University Publishing
Dream of the Bird Tattoo: Poems and Sueñitos
University of New Mexico Press
Every Sound Is Not a Wolf
La Vergne : Copper Canyon Press
The Female Vampire in Hispanic Literature : A Critical Anthology of Turn-Of-the-Twentieth Century Gothic-Inspired Tales
Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
(In)Hospitable Encounters in Chicanx and Latinx Literature, Culture, and Thought
Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Lamentations of Nezahualcoyotl: Nahuatl Poems
Restless Books
Latinx Literature in Transition, 1848-1992
Cambridge University Press
Latinx Literature in Transition, 1992–2020
Cambridge University Press
Lexicon of Affinities
Charco Press
Migration Literature in Translation: From Latinx Texts to Transnational Readers
Rouledge, Taylor & Francis Group
My Mother in Havana: A Memoir of Magic and Miracle
Monkfish Book Publishing Company
Nahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico
University of Arizona Press
The National Telepathy
Charco Press
Otrarse: Ladino Poems
University of New Mexico Press
A Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands
University of New Mexico Press
Portrait of the Artist As a Brown Man: Poems
Pasadena: Red Hen Press
A Punishing Breed
Red Hen Press
Purplish: Poetry Anger Publics
University of Iowa Press
Return of the Lost Son: Memories of my Wayward Father
Baton Rouge: LSU Press
The Sea Gives up the Dead: Stories
Pasadena: Red Hen Press
Some Final Beauty and Other Stories
University of Nevada Press
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
University of North Carolina Press
Three Plays by Luis Valdez
Routledge, Taylor & Francis
The Tokyo Suite
Europa Editions
Tsunami: Women's Voices from Mexico
Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Trees Dream of Water: Selected and New Poems
University of Arizona Press
The Unworthy: A Novel
Scribner
Variations in Blue: Poems
Red Hen Press
El Viajero. Sergio Pitol (1963-1988)
Editorial A Contracorriente
You Are Here: Poetry in a Natural World
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Milkweed Editions