From titles focused on the communities, culture, history, and politics of Latin America in the region to studies of the diaspora, Latin American Studies is an important part of Temple University Press' program. With series including Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality and Global Youth speaking to contemporary concerns in the field, to legacy series such as Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Music, the Press seeks to publish cutting edge research across a variety of topics and methodologies. Please find a sampling of some recent and backlist titles below!
Chilean New Song
The Political Power of Music, 1960s-1973
Authors: J. Patrice McSherry
Language: English
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Fernando Ortiz on Music
Selected Writing on Afro-Cuban Culture
Authors: Edited and with an Introduction by Robin D. Moore
Language: English
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Latino Mayors
Political Change in the Postindustrial City
Authors: Edited by Marion Orr and Domingo Morel With a Foreword by Luis Ricardo Fraga
Language: English
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Daily Labors
Marketing Identity and Bodies on a New York City Street Corner
Authors: Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky
Language: English
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Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants
Race, Gender, and Immigration Politics in the Age of Security
Authors: Anna Sampaio
Language: English
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Globalizing the Caribbean
Political Economy, Social Change, and the Transnational Capitalist Class
Authors: Jeb Sprague
Language: English
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Revolution Around the Corner
Voices from the Puerto Rican Socialist Party in the United States
Authors: Edited by José E. Velázquez, Carmen V. Rivera, and Andrés Torres
Language: Enlgish
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Latinx Environmentalisms
Place, Justice, and the Decolonial
Authors: Edited by Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ray
Language: English
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Sounding Salsa
Performing Latin Music in New York City
Authors: Christopher J Washburne
Language: English
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Phantom Skies and Shifting Ground
Landscape, Culture, and Rephotography in Eadweard Muybridge's Illustrations of Central America
Authors: Byron Wolfe and Scott Brady
Language: English
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