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Brazilian Consumerism - Brazil's Revolution in Commerce: Creating Consumer Capitalism in the American Century. By James P. Woodard. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 524. $37.50 paper; $95.00 cloth; $29.99 e-book.

The Cuban Revolution and Media Coverage - ¡Hay un barbudo en mi portada! La etapa insurreccional cubana a través de los medios de comunicación y la propaganda 1952–1958. By Patricia Calvo González. Madrid: Iberoamericana; Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 2021. Pp. 295. $33.00 paper.

Lula's Early Rise to Prominence - Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil. By John D. French. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 520. $29.95 cloth.

Urban History in Brazil - The Politics of Memory: Urban Cultural Heritage in Brazil. By Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos. London: Rowan & Littlefield, 2020. Pp. 200. $135.00 cloth; $43.99 e-book.

Banana Cultivation in Honduras - Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States. By John Soluri. 2nd edition. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. Pp. xxi, 244. $29.95 paper.

Eugenic Thought in Chile - The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile. By Sara Walsh. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 223. $50.00 cloth.

Brazil's Rural Black Communities - For Land and Liberty: Black Struggles in Rural Brazil. By Merle L. Bowen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 248. $99.99 cloth.

Guatemalan Youth - Youth in Postwar Guatemala: Education and Civic Identity in Transition. By Michelle J. Bellino. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017. Pp. 272. $34.95 paper.

Chilean Social Movements and Street Art - The Walls of Santiago: Social Revolution and Political Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile. By Terri Gordon-Zolov and Eric Zolov. New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. Pp. 310. 157 color illustrations. 2 maps. $175.00 cloth; $49.95 paper; e-book $49.95.

Inventing Latin American Music - The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History. By Pablo Palomino. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 260. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $99.00 cloth; $35.00 paper.

Organizing Immigrant Youth - Organizing While Undocumented: Immigrant Youth's Political Activism Under the Law. By Kevin Escudero. New York: New York University Press, 2020. Pp. 208. $89.00 cloth; $27.00 paper.

Global Sixties - The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties. By Eric Zolov. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 424. Illustrations. $114.95 cloth; $30.95 paper.

Ecuador's Indigenous Movements and Neoliberal Multiculturalism - Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador. By Carmen Martínez Novo. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 296. $50.00 cloth.

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African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama: A History in Documents. By Robert C. Schwaller. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. Pp. 304. $34.95 paper; $29.95 epub.

Global 1968: Cultural Revolutions in Europe and Latin America. Edited by A. James McAdams and Anthony P. Monta. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. Pp. 534. $45.00 paper.

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Tourism and Afro-Antillean Identity - From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions: Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama. By Carla Guerrón Montero. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2020. Pp. 208. $54.95 cloth; $54.95 e-book.

Cold War and Healthcare - Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America. Edited by Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Raúl Necochea López. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 376. $29.95 paper.

Politics of Food - Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru. By María Elena García. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. 291. $85.00 cloth; $29.95 paper; $29.95 e-book.

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