The University of Alabama Press publishes Latin American and Caribbean books in the fields of history, anthropology, culture, political science, and more. The current program privileges progressive topics that critique and illuminate in areas such as the African diaspora, slavery, gender, human rights, Indigenous rights and resistance, cultural expression, the environment, and US involvement in the regions.
Please click on this link (https://mailchi.mp/024942b4ca68/lasa-2022-virtual-exhibit) to see the latest offerings and to peruse the list of new, recent, and backlist titles that are all 30% off with the conference code LASA2022. For orders that are placed during the conference, get free shipping as well with code LASA2022FS.
Please contact senior acquisitions editor Wendi Schnaufer (wschnaufer@uapress.ua.edu) to discuss your next book project. A highly experienced, responsive, and supportive hands-on editor, she is devoted to doing justice to authors’ scholarship.
EVENT: Be sure to catch the LASA session 423 “At the Margins of the Nation? Blackness, Racism and Slaveholding in the Hispanic Atlantic" featuring Alabama authors Jesús Sanjurjo, Erika Edwards, Teresa Prados-Torreira, Norah Gharala, and Natalia Sobrevilla Perea. Friday, May 6, from 12 to 1:30 pm.
Check out some of our BOOK SERIES!:
Offerings in the robust Atlantic Crossings series, edited by Karen Racine, Leo J. Garofalo, and Gabe Paquette, enrich readers with outstanding histories of the Americas in the context of Atlantic World policies and actors. See the series flier here: Atlantic Crossings Series
The new Contemporary Issues and Methods in Indigenous Studies series, edited by Denise E. Bates and Margaret Vaughan, will take UAP into innovative and interdisciplinary scholarship on historical and contemporary Indigenous issues in global contexts.
The NGOgraphies: Ethnographic Reflections on NGOs series, edited by David Lewis and Mark Schuller, comprises cutting-edge case studies from applied anthropology. See the series flier here: NGOgraphies Series
The long-running Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory series, edited by L. Antonio Curet, boasts a host of books providing the most comprehensive archaeological and ethnohistorical information on the Caribbean. See the series flier here: Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series
Historical Archeology in South America, edited by Pedro P. Funari and Jake Sauer, focuses on theoretical and methodological advances being made in holistic approaches to studies of the post-1492 eras. See the series flier here: Historical Archaeology in South America Series
Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology, edited by Gene Allen Smith, covers the spectrum of maritime and nautical archaeology. See the series flier here: Maritime Currents Series
Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights
A Brief History with Documents
Authors: Edited by Lawrence A. Clayton and David M. Lantigua
Language: English
Edition: First
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Taxing Blackness
Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain
Authors: Norah L. A. Gharala
Language: English
Edition: First
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From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions
Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama
Authors: Carla Guerrón Montero
Language: English
Edition: First
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Hispanicism and Early US Literature
Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity
Authors: John C. Havard
Language: English
Edition: First
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Unmastering the Script
Education, Critical Race Theory, and the Struggle to Reconcile the Haitian Other in Dominican Identity
Authors: Sheridan Wigginton and Richard T. Middleton IV
Language: English
Edition: First
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Between the Sword and the Wall
The Santos Peace Negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Authors: Harvey F. Kline
Language: English
Edition: First
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A Cuban City, Segregated
Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century
Authors: Bonnie A. Lucero
Language: English
Edition: First
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The Saints of Progress
A History of Coffee, Migration, and Costa Rican National Identity
Authors: Carmen Kordick
Language: English
Edition: First
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Faces of Resistance
Maya Heroes, Power, and Identity
Authors: Edited by S. Ashley Kistler
Language: English
Edition: First
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Borders of Visibility
Haitian Migrant Women and the Dominican Nation-State
Authors: Jennifer L. Shoaff
Language: English
Edition: First
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