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October 30, 2024

Understanding the Complex History and Cultural Diversity of Puerto Rico: A Reading List

The following reading list showcases a fraction of books that have been published by UNC Press over many decades regarding Puerto Rico’s multilayered, complicated history and status as a US territory, as well as its rich, diverse cultural heritage—on La isla del encanto, and on the US mainland. Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico’s… Continue Reading Understanding the Complex History and Cultural Diversity of Puerto Rico: A Reading List

Categories Latin American & Caribbean Studies/UNC Press News
September 9, 2024

Five Books to Read this Hispanic Heritage Month

Since 1968, Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15th – October 15th every year to honor the cultures and contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans and celebrate heritage rooted in all Latin American countries. We’re proud to publish a wide selection of Hispanic and Latin American titles, including two book series (Latinx Histories and Latin America in Translation) as… Continue Reading Five Books to Read this Hispanic Heritage Month

Categories Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Latin American/Caribbean Hist./Latino Studies/Reading Lists
August 27, 2024

New This Week: August 27th

It’s Tuesday and you know what that means: new books! Today’s new books include a book that explores the University of Georgia’s long history of racism and the struggle to overcome it and a new book in our envisioning Cuba series. Check them out below and browse all of our new books this month here. Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and the… Continue Reading New This Week: August 27th

Categories African American Studies/Latin American & Caribbean Studies
June 4, 2024

New This Week

It’s New Books Tuesday and we have new titles now available wherever books are sold! This week we have new southern gateways guides, a book on race and law in the creation of Puerto Rico, and a new Native American/Indigenous studies book that sheds light on the struggles and resilience of Native peoples across the Americas. Check out our new… Continue Reading New This Week

Categories Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Native Amer./Indigenous Studies/Southern Gateways Guides
April 18, 2024

2024 Latina/o Studies Association Annual Meeting

UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the Latina/o Studies Association annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our table to say hello to editor Andreína Fernández and to browse our titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth! And be sure to stop by on Friday from 3:30-4:30 pm… Continue Reading 2024 Latina/o Studies Association Annual Meeting

Categories Exhibits/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Latino Studies
December 18, 2023

The Young Woman of Devil’s Alley: An Excerpt from “Surgery & Salvation”

The following is an excerpt from the introduction of Surgery & Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940 by Elizabeth O’Brien, which is now available wherever books are sold. In the early morning hours of March 12, 1884, a pregnant eighteen-year-old walked on a derelict pathway in Mexico City. Known colloquially as Devil’s Alley, the street has been… Continue Reading The Young Woman of Devil’s Alley: An Excerpt from “Surgery & Salvation”

Categories Excerpts/Health / Medicine/Latin American & Caribbean Studies
November 14, 2023

New Books This Week

It’s Tuesday which means we have new books that are officially on-sale wherever books are sold! You can also see our list of everything new this month on our Hot Off the Press page and you can sign up for our monthly eNews to get updates in your inbox about new books, news, promotions and more. Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses,… Continue Reading New Books This Week

Categories African American Studies/American Studies/Labor Studies/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Literature/Women's Studies
October 12, 2023

Race and the “Nuevo South”: An Excerpt from MAKING THE LATINO SOUTH

The following is an excerpt from Making The Latino South: A History of Racial Formation by Cecilia Márquez, which is available wherever books are sold. Making the Latino South is the first book in our new Latinx Histories series. This Hispanic Heritage Month use code 01UNCP30 to get 30% + FREE shipping on orders over $75 when you order this… Continue Reading Race and the “Nuevo South”: An Excerpt from MAKING THE LATINO SOUTH

Categories Excerpts/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Latino Studies
September 27, 2023

National Hispanic Heritage Month Reading List

Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month! Since 1968, Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15th – October 15th every year to honor the cultures and contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans and celebrate heritage rooted in all Latin American countries. You can learn more about the history of NHHM at hispanicheritagemonth.gov. To celebrate we’ve curated a reading list of some… Continue Reading National Hispanic Heritage Month Reading List

Categories Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Latino Studies/Reading Lists
September 19, 2023

New Books This Week

Happy New Books Tuesday! We have three exciting new books publishing today. Browse our newest releases or take a look at everything new this month on our Hot Off the Press. Plus, if you want updates in your inbox every month on new titles and what’s happening at UNC Press, you can sign up for our monthly eNews here. Wild, Tamed,… Continue Reading New Books This Week

Categories Food Studies/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Military History/UNC Press News
August 14, 2023

The Gods Give Looks: An Excerpt from Vodou en Vogue

The following is an excerpt from the introduction of Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States by Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha which is available wherever books are sold. “Nwokocha’s superb work offers a much-needed corrective to previous scholarship that presents Vodou as a religion defined by poverty and precarity. Her skillful observations and thoughtful descriptions of… Continue Reading The Gods Give Looks: An Excerpt from Vodou en Vogue

Categories Excerpts/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Religion
August 8, 2023

New This Week: “In Pursuit of Health Equity”

It’s New Books Tuesday and In Pursuit of Health Equity: A History of Latin American Social Medicine by Eric D. Carter is now available wherever books are sold. In Pursuit of Health Equity: A History of Latin American Social Medicine by Eric D. Carter A remarkable look at the origins and evolution of a transnational sociomedical perspective in Latin America… Continue Reading New This Week: “In Pursuit of Health Equity”

Categories Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Latin American/Caribbean Hist./UNC Press News
May 19, 2023

“Solidarity Across the Americas” Book Events Recap

Margaret M. Power, author of Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism, recently completed some events in Chicago and the Bay Area. Below she reflects on and recaps her events and shares a video a student made of Pedro Albizu Campos’s trip through Latin America. The song playing in the background of the video is Despierta Boricua, the hymn of the… Continue Reading “Solidarity Across the Americas” Book Events Recap

Categories Guest Bloggers/Latin American & Caribbean Studies
April 20, 2023

A New Form of Collective Action? An Excerpt from “Indigenous Civil Society in Latin America”

The following is an excerpt from Indigenous Civil Society in Latin America: Collective Action in the Digital Age by Pascal Lupien, which is available now wherever books are sold. This is a thoughtful and impressive study. Lupien sheds important light on twenty-first century Indigenous political dynamics in the Andes, teaching us sobering lessons about the limits of digital technologies and… Continue Reading A New Form of Collective Action? An Excerpt from “Indigenous Civil Society in Latin America”

Categories Excerpts/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Native Amer./Indigenous Studies/Political Science
February 10, 2023

Social Metabolisms: Precious Metal Mining and it’s Demands on Local Environments and People

The following is an excerpt from The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro: Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town, by Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, available now wherever books are sold. Social Metabolisms As the rate and scale of precious metal mining increased with each cycle of extractivist mining, its demands on local environments and people rose proportionally.… Continue Reading Social Metabolisms: Precious Metal Mining and it’s Demands on Local Environments and People

Categories Environmental Studies/Excerpts/Latin American & Caribbean Studies
January 27, 2023

Defining Indigeneity

The following is an excerpt from On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala by Sarah Foss, available wherever books are sold. Defining Indigeneity In 1945, the newly created IING sent surveys to the directors of national schools in sixteen of Guatemala’s twenty-two departments, selecting those with substantial Indigenous populations. Because a large majority of responders were… Continue Reading Defining Indigeneity

Categories Excerpts/Latin American & Caribbean Studies
January 19, 2023

The Return of Lula to the Brazilian Presidency: Reflections by Lula’s Biographer

Guest blog post by John D. French, author of Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil I progress as I digress, the author of Tristram Shandy wrote, and so Brazil, a country whose November election touched hearts, leading many to contact me after the second round of the election. The anxieties associated with uncertainties of the transition—including… Continue Reading The Return of Lula to the Brazilian Presidency: Reflections by Lula’s Biographer

Categories Latin American & Caribbean Studies/UNC Press News
January 4, 2023

Agriculture’s Energy: Introduction

The following is an excerpt from the introduction of Agriculture’s Energy: The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil’s Green Revolution by Thomas D. Rogers, available now wherever books are sold. From 1900 to 2000, in the midst of dramatic population growth, Brazil experienced a neat demographic inversion. At the same time that it grew by a factor of ten, from 17… Continue Reading Agriculture’s Energy: Introduction

Categories Excerpts/Latin American & Caribbean Studies
October 25, 2022

Refugees or Asylum-Seekers

The following is an excerpt from Detention Empire: Reagan’s War on Immigrants & the Seeds of Resistance by Kristina Shull, available now everywhere books are sold. Refugees or Asylum-Seekers The massive scope and devastations of the Vietnam War indelibly scarred US political and social life, reshaping subsequent US refugee politics. Growing public divisions over the war also help to explain the seeming paradox… Continue Reading Refugees or Asylum-Seekers

Categories Excerpts/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Political Science
October 18, 2022

The Overturning of Roe v. Wade and A History of Sexual Violence Towards Women of Color, Black Women, Indigenous Women, and Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People.

The following is a guest post by Bernadine Marie Hernández, author of Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderland, available wherever books are sold. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that affirmed the constitutional right to abortion. On June 7, 2022, my book about the sexual… Continue Reading The Overturning of Roe v. Wade and A History of Sexual Violence Towards Women of Color, Black Women, Indigenous Women, and Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People.

Categories Gender Studies/Guest Bloggers/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Women's Studies