Latin American Studies
Witnessing beyond the Human
Provides an innovative and theoretically rigorous approach to the subject of testimony in Latin America.
Diasporic Blackness
Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad.
The Politics of the Second Slavery
Sheds new light on both pro and antislavery politics in the nineteenth-century Americas.
Malady and Genius
Analyzes the theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature through psychoanalytic theory.
Radical Poetry
Engages in a critical reanalysis of historical Ibero-American experimental poetry in order to demonstrate how the contemporary digital vanguard owes much to this tradition.
Literature and "Interregnum"
Examines literary responses to the impact of economic and technological globalization in Latin America.
City in Common
Addresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban futures.
Are All the Women Still White?
Provides a contemporary response to such landmark volumes as All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave and This Bridge Called My Back.
New Frontiers of Slavery
Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century.
Libre Acceso
Analyzes the diverse roles and pervasive presence of disability in Latin American literature and film.
Contingency and Commitment
Offers the first comprehensive survey of Mexican existentialism to appear in English.
Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America, Third Edition
Uses both historical and contemporary case studies to examine how race and ethnicity affect the places we live, work, and visit. .
Despite All Adversities
Provides sophisticated theoretical approaches to Latin American cinema and sexual culture.
Borges, the Jew
Explores Borges’ infatuation with Jewish history and culture.
A History of Political Murder in Latin America
A sweeping study of political murder in Latin America.
Imagining the Postcolonial
A comparative study of Latin American and francophone postcoloniality.
Minima Cuba
Explores the ideological and emotional trauma created after the withering of the socialist utopia in Cuba.
Carlos Estévez
Serves as a source for the exploration of many dimensions of the human experience in relation to other beings, ranging from machines and blueprints to mollusks and plants.
The Losing War
Critical analysis of Plan Colombia, a multibillion dollar US counternarcotics initiative.
The Avowal of Difference
Discusses how theories of queer performativity, as articulated within the US Academy, are unable to capture the whole of Latino American queer subjectivity and experience.
Desbordes
Examines the intersections of “Latino,” “queer,” and “American,” to illustrate how the categories of class, race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity are directly entangled with issues of citizenship and belonging.
Taking Risks
Explores activist scholarship in relation to feminism and social movements in the Americas.
Painting Modernism
Studies the influence of the plastic arts on the major writers of Latin American modernism.
Borges, Second Edition
Expanded edition with new chapters and updates to the translation and bibliography.
Oshun's Daughters
Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.