Latin American Studies

Longlisted for the National Book Award Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Shortlisted for the 2025 Housatonic Book Award for Nonfiction Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in Memoir A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music...

In Homegrown, cultural critics Bell Hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture, inviting listeners to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream discourse about Black-Latino relationships that is too often negative....

This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic)....

A rarely seen female perspective on gang life, this raw and powerful memoir tells not only of one woman's struggle to survive the streets but also of her ascent to the top ranks of the new Mafia....

A fines de los años noventa, en Las Heras, un pequeño pueblo petrolero de la provincia argentina de Santa Cruz con un alto índice de desempleo y sin ningún tipo de futuro para los jóvenes, se produjeron doce suicidios. La mayoría de los muertos tenía alrededor de veinticinco años y eran...

An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights....

American Brujeria is about the fascinating blend of American and Mexican folk magic currently used by those living in the US but whose roots are steeped in Mexican culture....

Hay una región del mundo donde veinte países y más de 400 millones de personas comparten una lengua, una historia, una cultura, preocupaciones y esperanzas. La conocemos mal; conocemos sobre todo sus mitos, sus reflejos....

Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of color....

Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American popular culture - from food to entertainment to literature - is greater than ever....

Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum....

As late as the 1960s, tacos were virtually unknown outside Mexico and the American Southwest....

UNA GUÍA REBELDE PARA ALCANZAR EL ÉXITO PROFESIONAL. En Latinas Imparables, Valeria Aloe nos lleva de la mano por un viaje transformador, que comienza por...

¡Tequila! Distilling the Spirit of Mexico traces how and why tequila became and remains Mexico's national drink and symbol....

Bestselling author Julissa Arce brings listeners a powerful polemic against the myth that assimilation leads to happiness and belonging for immigrants in America....

Weaving personal narrative with political analysis, Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia....

Gardening at the Margins tells the remarkable story of a diverse group of neighbors working together to grow food and community in the Santa Clara Valley in California....

An eminent scholar finds a new American history in the Hispanic past of our diverse nation....

Earth Angel with a Green Card is the true story of the author’s mother who spent her life in service to others, especially her children. During her modest early life in rural Mexico, she bore 11 children, whom she raised with very few resources....

Just Like Us tells the story of four high school students whose parents entered this country illegally from Mexico....