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Volume 75 - Issue 1 - January 2018

Book Review

Afro-Atlantic World and Slavery - Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600–2000. By George Reid Andrews . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 136. $24.95 cloth.

The Politics of the Second Slavery. Edited by Dale W. Tomich . Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016. Pp. 280. $85.00 cloth.

Slavery and Politics: Brazil and Cuba, 1790–1850. By Rafael Marquese , Tâmis Parron , and Márcia Berbel . Translated by Leonardo Marques . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016. Pp. 362. $95.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.

From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata. By Alex Borucki . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 2015. $29.95 paper.

Transnational - Mothers Making Latin America: Gender, Households, and Politics Since 1825. By Erin O'Connor . Viewpoints/Puntos de Vista: Themes and Interpretations in Latin American History Series. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2014. Pp. 312. $102.95 cloth; $38.95 paper.

Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds: Religion and Modernity in a Transnational K'iche’ Community. By C. James MacKenzie . Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2016. Pp. 408. $110.00 cloth. $34.95 paper.

Reflections on Memory and Democracy. Edited by Merilee S. Grindle and Erin Goodman . David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies. Cambridge: Harvard University, 2016. Appendix. Pp. xiii, 260. $24.95 paper.

Migrating Faith: Pentecostalism in the United States and Mexico in the Twentieth Century. By Daniel Ramírez . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2015. Pp. 306. $29.95 paper.

Transatlantic - Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World. By Cassander L. Smith . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016. Pp. 248. $45.

The Temptations of Trade. Britain, Spain, and the Struggle for Empire. By Adrian Funicane . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Pp. 224. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $45 cloth.

Cultural Studies - Negro Soy Yo: Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba. By Marc D. Perry . Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp. 284. $89.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality. By Gloria Anzaldúa . Edited by AnaLouise Keating . Durham: Duke University Press 2015. Pp. 312. $84.95 cloth; $23.95 paper.

[Un]Framing the “Bad Woman:” Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and Other Rebels with a Cause. By Alicia Gaspar de Alba . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. Pp. 364. $27.95 paper.

Independence - Aztecs at Independence: Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832. By Mariam Melton-Villanueva . Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016. Pp. 256. $55.00 cloth.

La independencia peruana como representación. Historiografía, conmemoración y escultura pública. Edited by Alex Loayza Pérez . Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2016. Pp. 397. $18.30 paper.

Afro-Latin American Movements - The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space. By Ulrich Oslender . Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp. 302. $94.95 cloth; $25.95 paper.

Oligarchies - The Oligarchy and the Old Regime in Latin America, 1880–1970. By Dennis Gilbert . Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. Pp. 293. $95.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.

Modern Era Presidential Politics - Presidential Leadership in the Americas since Independence. By Guy Burton and Ted Goertzel . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016. Pp. 271. $90.00 cloth.

Haiti and Jamaica - Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica after Emancipation. By Matthew J. Smith . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Pp. 428. $35.00 paper.

Istwa Across the Water: Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination. By Toni Pressley-Sanon . Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017. Pp. 196. $79.95 cloth.

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