This essay reviews the following works:
The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico. By Christina Bueno. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 280. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780826357328.
Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico. By David S. Dalton. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2018. Pp. x + 248. $84.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9781683400394.
Becoming Brazilians: Race and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil. By Marshall C. Eakin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xvii + 343. $31.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781316626009.
Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights. By Gabriela González. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 261. $36.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780190909628.
The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Edited by James N. Green, Victoria Langland, and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 2019. Pp. 608. $32.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822371076.
Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil. By Yuko Miki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xix + 306. $29.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781108405409.
Estudiar el racismo: Afrodescendientes en México. Edited by María Elisa Velázquez Gutiérrez. Mexico City: Secretaría de Cultura, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2019. Pp. 619. Mex$445.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9786075393209.