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Luis E. Aguilar: Marxism in Latin America Marxism in Latin America
edited by Aguilar, Luis E.

412 pp • 4x7 • Spring 1978
paper 978-0-87722-108-1
cloth 978-0-87722-106-7

Living in the Crossfire Living in the Crossfire
Favela Residents, Drug Dealers, and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro

Alves, Maria Helena Moreira and Philip Evanson

254 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2011
paper 978-1-4399-0004-8
cloth 978-1-4399-0003-1

Paul Austerlitz: Merengue Merengue
Dominican Music and Dominican Identity

Austerlitz, Paul, foreword by Robert Farris Thompson

224 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1996
paper 978-1-56639-484-0
cloth 978-1-56639-483-3

Phillip Berryman: Liberation Theology Liberation Theology
Essential Facts about the Revolutionary Religious Movement in Latin America and Beyond

Berryman, Phillip

240 pp • 5x8 • Spring 1987
cloth 978-0-87722-479-2

Frank Bonilla, Edwin Meléndez, Rebecca Morales, María de los Angeles Torres: Borderless Borders Borderless Borders
U.S. Latinos, Latin Americans, and the Paradox of Interdependence

edited by Bonilla, Frank, Edwin Meléndez, Rebecca Morales and María de los Angeles Torres

336 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1998
paper 978-1-56639-620-2
cloth 978-1-56639-619-6

Christine E. Bose, Edna Acosta-Belén: Women in the Latin American Development Process Women in the Latin American Development Process
edited by Bose, Christine E. and Edna Acosta-Belén

304 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1995
paper 978-1-56639-293-8
cloth 978-1-56639-292-1

Lisa Brock, Digna Castañeda Fuertes: Between Race and Empire Between Race and Empire
African-Americans and Cubans before the Cuban Revolution

edited by Brock, Lisa and Digna Casteñada Fuertes, foreword by Manning Marable

289 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1998
paper 978-1-56639-587-8
cloth 978-1-56639-586-1

Allan F. Burns: Maya in Exile Maya In Exile
Guatemalans in Florida

Burns, Allan F., introduction by Jerónimo Camposeco

256 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 1993
paper 978-1-56639-036-1
cloth 978-1-56639-035-4

Economies of Desire

Economies of Desire
Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic
Cabezas, Amalia L.

232 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 2009
paper 978-1-59213-750-3
cloth 978-1-59213-749-7

Eric Stener Carlson: I Remember Julia I Remember Julia
Voices of the Disappeared

Carlson, Eric Stener

240 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 1996
paper 978-1-56639-437-6
cloth 978-1-56639-430-7

Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States
Essays on Incorporation, Identity, and Citizenship

edited by Cervantes-Rodriguez, Margarita, Ramon Grosfoguel and Eric Mielants

270 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2008
cloth 978-1-59213-954-5

Elsa M. Chaney, Mary Garcia Castro: Muchachas No More Muchachas No More
Household Workers in Latin America and the Caribbean

edited by Chaney, Elsa M. and Mary Garcia Castro

520 pp • Fall 1988
paper 978-0-87722-835-6
cloth 978-0-87722-571-3

Kevin O'Brien Chang, Wayne Chen: Reggae Routes Reggae Routes
The Story of Jamaican Music

Chang, Kevin O’Brien and Wayne Chen

256 pp • 6.75x9.25 • Spring 1998
paper 978-1-56639-629-5

Diane E. Davis: Urban Leviathan Urban Leviathan
Mexico City in the Twentieth Century

Davis, Diane E.

424 pp • 6x9.25 • Spring 1994
paper 978-1-56639-151-1
cloth 978-1-56639-150-4

Unraveling the Real

Unraveling the Real
The Fantastic in Spanish-American Ficciones
Duncan, Cynthia

280 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2010
paper 978-1-4399-0241-7
cloth 978-1-4399-0240-0

Carmenza Gallo: Taxes and State Power Taxes and State Power
Political Instability in Bolivia, 1900-1950

Gallo, Carmenza

200 pp • Spring 1991
cloth 978-0-87722-800-4

Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music
Garcia, David F.

224 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2006
paper 978-1-59213-386-4
cloth 978-1-59213-385-7

Virginia Garrard-Burnett, David Stoll: Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America
edited by Garrard-Burnett, Virginia and David Stoll

240 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1993
paper 978-1-56639-103-0
cloth 978-1-56639-102-3

Robert Gay: Lucia Lucia
Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman

Gay, Robert

240 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2005
paper 978-1-59213-339-0
cloth 978-1-59213-338-3

Robert Gay: Popular Organization and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro Popular Organization and Democracy in Rio De Janeiro
A Tale of Two Favelas

Gay, Robert

208 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1993
paper 978-1-56639-120-7
cloth 978-1-56639-119-1

Gary Gereffi, David Spener, Jennifer Bair: Free Trade and Uneven Development Free Trade and Uneven Development
The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA

edited by Gereffi, Gary, David Spener and Jennifer Bair

368 pp • 7x10 • Fall 2002
paper 978-1-56639-968-5
cloth 978-1-56639-967-8

Carl Good, John V. Waldron: The Effects of the Nation The Effects of the Nation
Mexican Art in an Age of Globalization

edited by Good, Carl and John V. Waldron

232 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2001
paper 978-1-56639-866-4
cloth 978-1-56639-865-7

David Griffith, Manuel Valdés Pizzini: Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea
A Puerto Rican Journey through Labor and Refuge

Griffith, David and Manuel Valdés Pizzini

280 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2001
paper 978-1-56639-911-1
cloth 978-1-56639-910-4

Jacqueline Maria Hagan: Deciding to Be Legal Deciding to be Legal
A Maya Community in Houston

Hagan, Jacqueline Maria

224 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1994
paper 978-1-56639-257-0
cloth 1978-1-56639-256-3

Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English

Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English
Hebblethwaite, Benjamin

396 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2011
paper 978-1-4399-0602-6
cloth 978-1-4399-0601-9

Deborah Pacini Hernandez: Bachata Bachata
A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music

Hernandez, Deborah Pacini

296 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1995
paper 978-1-56639-300-3
cloth 978-1-56639-299-0

Juan Felipe Herrera: Mayan Drifter Mayan Drifter
Chicano Poet in the Lowlands of America

Herrera, Juan Felipe

330 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1996
paper 978-1-56639-482-6
cloth 978-1-56639-481-9

Ethical Borders

Ethical Borders
NAFTA, Globalization, and Mexican Migration

Hing, Bill Ong

248 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2010
paper 978-1-59213-925-5
cloth 978-1-59213-924-8

Selecting Women, Electing Women

Selecting Women, Electing Women
Political Representation and Candidate Selection in Latin America

Hinojosa, Magda

240 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0848-8
cloth 978-1-4399-0847-1

Cold War in a Hot Zone

Cold War in a Hot Zone
The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies
Horne, Gerald

272 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2007
paper 978-1-59213-628-5
cloth 978-1-59213-627-8

James T. Houk: Spirits, Blood, and Drums Spirits, Blood, and Drums
The Orisha Religion in Trinidad

Houk, James T.

256 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1995
paper 978-1-56639-350-8
cloth 978-1-56639-349-2

Salsa World Salsa World
A Global Dance in Local Contexts

edited by Hutchinson, Sydney

240 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2013
paper 978-1-4399-1007-8
cloth 978-1-4399-1006-1

Where Rivers Meet the Sea Where Rivers Meet the Sea
The Political Ecology of Water

Kane, Stephanie C.

246 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0931-7
cloth 978-1-4399-0930-0

Another Arabesque

Another Arabesque
Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil
Karam, John Tofik

232 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2006
paper 978-1-59213-540-0
cloth 978-1-59213-539-4

The International Monetary Fund and Latin America

The International Monetary Fund and Latin America
The Argentine Puzzle in Context
Kedar, Claudia

264 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2012
cloth 978-1-4399-0909-6

Dominican Baseball Dominican Baseball
New Pride, Old Prejudice

Klein, Alan

200 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2014
paper 978-1-4399-1088-7
cloth 978-1-4399-1087-0

Searching for Mr. Chin

Searching for Mr. Chin
Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature
Lee-Loy, Anne-Marie

198 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 2010
cloth 978-1-43990-130-4

David Lehmann: Democracy and Development in Latin America Democracy and Development in Latin America
Economics, Politics and Religion in the Post-War Period

Lehmann, David

272 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1990
paper 978-1-56639-011-8
cloth 978-0-87722-723-6

James Loucky, Marilyn M. Moors: The Maya Diaspora The Maya Diaspora
Guatemalan Roots, New American Lives

edited by Loucky, James and Marilyn M. Moors

248 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2000
paper 978-1-56639-795-7
cloth 978-1-56639-794-0

Ian Lumsden: Machos, Maricones, and Gays Machos, Maricones, and Gays
Cuba and Homosexuality

Lumsden, Ian

304 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1995
paper 978-1-56639-371-3
cloth 978-1-56639-370-6

Sounds of the Modern Nation Sounds of the Modern Nation
Music, Culture, and Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico

Madrid, Alejandro L.

224 pp • 5.25x8.25• Fall 2008
cloth 978-1-59213-694-0

Caribbean Currents: Third Edition Caribbean Currents
Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae

Third Edition
Manuel, Peter with Michael Largey

338 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2016
paper 978-1-4399-1400-7
cloth 978-1-4399-1399-4

Peter Manuel, Kenneth Bilby, Michael Largey: Caribbean Currents Caribbean Currents
Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae

Manuel, Peter with Kenneth Bilby and Michael Largey

336 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2006
paper 978-1-56639-339-3
cloth 978-1-56639-338-6

Creolizing Contradance in the Caribbean

Creolizing Contradance in the Caribbean
edited by Manuel, Peter

288 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2009
paper 978-1-59213-735-0
cloth 978-1-59213-734-3

Cecília Loreto Mariz: Coping with Poverty Coping with Poverty
Pentecostals and Christian Base Communities in Brazil

Mariz, Cecília Loreto

208 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1993
paper 978-1-56639-113-9
cloth 978-1-56639-112-2

Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign
Martínez-Ruiz, Bárbaro

240 pp • 7x10 • Spring 2013
cloth 978-1-4399-0816-7

Peter Mason: Bacchanal! Bacchanal!
The Carnival Culture of Trinidad

Mason, Peter

192 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1998
paper 978-1-56639-663-9
cloth 978-1-56639-662-2

Biorn Maybury-Lewis: The Politics of the Possible The Politics of the Possible
The Brazilian Rural Workers' Trade Union Movement, 1964-1985

Maybury-Lewis, Biorn

320 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1994
paper 978-1-56639-167-2
cloth 978-1-56639-166-5

The Brazilian Sound The Brazilian Sound
Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular Music of Brazil

McGowan, Chris and Ricardo Pessanha

Revised and Expanded Edition
280 pp • 7x10 • Fall 2008
paper 978-1-59213-929-38
cloth 978-1-59213-928-6

Chilean New Song

Chilean New Song
The Political Power of Music, 1960s-1973
McSherry, J. Patrice

232 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2015
paper 978-1-4399-1152-5
cloth 978-1-4399-1151-8

Accessible Citizenships

Accessible Citizenships
Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico
Minich, Julie Avril

240 pp • 5.5x8.5 • Fall 2013
paper 978-1-4399-1070-2
cloth 978-1-4399-1069-6

Afro-Caribbean Religions

Afro-Caribbean Religions
An Introduction to Their Historical, Cultural, and Sacred Traditions
Murrell, N. Samuel

440 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2009
paper 978-1-4399-0041-3
cloth 978-1-4399-0040-6

Nathaniel Samuel Murrell, William David Spencer, Adrian Anthony McFarlane: Chanting Down Babylon Chanting Down Babylon
The Rastafari Reader

edited by Murrell, N. Samuel, William D. Spencer and Adrian Anthony McFarlane

467 pp • 7x10 • Fall 1998
paper 978-1-56639-584-7
cloth 978-1-56639-583-0

The Sorcery of Color

The Sorcery of Color
Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil
Nascimento, Elisa Larkin

336 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2006
paper 978-1-59213-351-2
cloth 978-1-59213-350-5

Sergio Navarrete Pellicer: Maya Achi Marimba Music in Guatemala Maya Achi Marimba Music in Guatemala
Navarrete Pellicer, Sergio

288 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2005
paper 978-1-59213-292-8
cloth 978-1-59213-291-1

Altagracia Ortiz: Puerto Rican Women and Work Puerto Rican Women and Work
Bridges in Transnational Labor

edited by Ortiz, Altagracia

272 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1996
paper 978-1-56639-451-2
cloth 978-1-56639-450-5

Mexican Voices of the Border Region Mexican Voices of the Border Region
Ortiz, Laura Velasco and Oscar F. Contreras, with translations by Sandra del Castillo

238 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2011
paper 1-59213-909-4
cloth 1 978-1-59213-908-8

Milagros Peña: Theologies and Liberation in Peru Theologies and Liberation in Peru
The Role of Ideas in Social Movements

Peña, Milagros

240 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 1995
cloth 978-1-56639-294-5

Laura Podalsky: Specular City Specular City
Transforming Culture, Consumption, and Space in Buenos Aires, 1955-1973

Podalsky, Laura

304 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2003
paper 978-1-56639-948-7
cloth 978-1-56639-947-0

Elena Poniatowska: Nothing, Nobody Nothing, Nobody
The Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake

Poniatowska, Elena, translated by Aurora Camacho de Schmidt, foreword by Arthur Schmidt

384 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1995
paper 978-1-56639-345-4
cloth 978-1-56639-344-7

Magali Roy-Féquière: Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico
Roy-Féquière, Magali

328 pp • 6.875x10 • Fall 2003
paper 978-1-59213-231-7
cloth 978-1-59213-230-0

Cathy Lisa Schneider: Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile Shantytown Protest in Pinochet’s Chile
Schneider, Cathy Lisa

296 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 1995
paper 978-1-56639-306-5
cloth 978-1-56639-305-8

Servicio Paz y Justica, Elizabeth Hampsten: Uruguay Nunca Mas Uruguay Nunca Más
Human Rights Violations, 1972-1985

Servicio Paz y Justicia, , translated by Elizabeth Hampsten, introduction by Lawrence Wechsler

360 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1992
paper 978-1-56639-146-7
cloth 978-0-87722-953-7

Amelia Simpson: Xuxa Xuxa
The Mega-Marketing of Gender, Race, and Modernity

Simpson, Amelia

256 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1993
paper 978-1-56639-107-8
cloth 978-1-56639-101-6

David Sowell: The Early Colombian Labor Movement The Early Colombian Labor Movement
Artisans and Politics in Bogota, 1832-1919

Sowell, David

272 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1992
cloth 978-0-87722-965-0

William Stanley: The Protection Racket State The Protection Racket State
Elite Politics, Military Extortion, and Civil War in El Salvador

Stanley, William

344 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1996
paper 978-1-56639-392-8
cloth 978-1-56639-391-1

Kathleen Staudt: Free Trade? Free Trade?
Informal Economies at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Staudt, Kathleen

256 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1997
paper 978-1-56639-568-7
cloth 978-1-56639-567-0

Clark Taylor: Return of Guatemala's Refugees Return of Guatemala's Refugees
Reweaving the Torn

Taylor, Clark

248 pp • 5.5x8.2 • Spring 1998
paper 978-1-56639-622-6
cloth 978-1-56639-621-9

María de los Angeles Torres: By Heart/De Memori By Heart/De Memoria
Cuban Women's Journeys In and Out of Exile

edited by Torres, María de los Angeles

208 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2002
paper 978-1-59213-011-5
cloth 978-1-59213-010-8

Mario Lunog Uclés, Arthur Schmidt: El Salvador in the Eighties El Salvador in the Eighties
Counterinsurgency and Revolution

Uclés, Mario Lungo, introduction by Arthur Schmidt, translated by Amelia F. Shogan

256 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 1996
paper 978-1-56639-432-1
cloth 978-1-56639-431-4

Surviving Mexico's Dirty War

Surviving Mexico's Dirty War
A Political Prisoner's Memoir
Ulloa Bornemann, Alberto, edited by Arthur Schmidt and Aurora Camacho de Schmidt

232 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2006
paper 978-1-59213-423-6
cloth 978-1-59213-422-9

María Eugenia Vásquez Perdomo: My Life as a Colombian Revolutionary My Life as a Colombian Revolutionary
Reflections of a Former Guerrillera

Vásquez Perdomo, María Eugenia, translated by Lorena Terando, introduction by Arthur Schmidt

312 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2004
paper 978-1-59213-101-3
cloth 978-1-59213-100-6

María Teresa Vélez: Drumming for the Gods Drumming for the Gods
The Life and Times of Felipe García Villamil, santero, palero, and abakuá

Vélez, María Teresa

256 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1999
paper 978-1-56639-731-5
cloth 978-1-56639-730-8

Gustavo Verdesio: Forgotten Conquests Forgotten Conquests
Rereading New World History from the Margins

Verdesio, Gustavo

216 pp • 7x10 • Fall 2000
paper 978-1-56639-834-3
cloth 978-1-56639-833-6

Troubling Gender

Troubling Gender
Youth and Cumbia in Argentina's Music Scene
Vila, Pablo and Pablo Semán, contributions by Eloísa Martín and María Julia Carozzi

230 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2011
paper 978-1-4399-0267-7
cloth 978-1-4399-0266-0

Sounding Salsa Sounding Salsa
Performing Latin Music in New York City

Washburne, Christopher

272 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2008
paper 978-1-59213-316-1
cloth 978-1-59213-315-4

Phillip Wearne: Return of the Indian Return of the Indian
Conquest and Revival in the Americas

Wearne, Phillip, foreword by Rigoberta Menchu

264 pp • 7.5x9.5 • Fall 1996
paper 978-1-56639-501-4
cloth 978-1-56639-500-7

Teresa Whitfield: Paying the Price Paying the Price
Ignacio Ellacuría and the Murdered Jesuits of El Salvador

Whitfield, Teresa, foreword by Alvaro de Soto

528 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1994
paper 978-1-56639-253-2
cloth 978-1-56639-252-5

Phantom Skies and Shifting Ground
 
Phantom Skies and Shifting Ground
Landscape, Culture, and Rephotography in Eadweard Muybridge's Lost Illustrations of Central America

Wolfe, Byron and Scott Brady

228 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2017
cloth 978-1-942185-14-7

Whose National Music? Whose National Music?
Identity, Mestizaje, and Migration in Ecuador

Wong, Ketty

268 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2012
cloth 978-1-4399-0057-4>

Kevin A. Yelvington: Producing Power Producing Power
Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace

Yelvington, Kevin A.

304 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1995
paper 978-1-56639-286-0
cloth 978-1-56639-285-3

The Coolie Speaks

The Coolie Speaks
Yun, Lisa

336 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2007
paper 978-1-59213-582-0
cloth 978-1-59213-581-3


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