The University Press of Florida and UF Press are offering discounts and free shipping within the U.S. on titles in Latin American and Caribbean studies. Subject areas include anthropology, arts, culture, history, literature, political science, and media studies. Browse all books here and use code LASA22.
Do you have book project or idea? We invite proposals from new and established scholars working in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and our editor Stephanye Hunter would love to hear from you. Email her at sah@upress.ufl.edu.
Authors in Conversation: Elizabeth S. Manley and Heather Hennes
Our editor-in-chief Stephanye Hunter hosted a conversation between Elizabeth S. Manley, author of The Paradox of Paternalism: Women and the Politics of Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic, and Heather Hennes, translator of Minou Tavárez Mirabal's The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavárez: Love and Resistance in the Time of Trujillo. Watch the conversation here:
Meet the Authors: Angela L. Willis and Rafael Ocasio, The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas
Meet Angela L. Willis and Rafael Ocasio, coauthors (with Sandro R. Barros) of The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas. Their book demonstrates Reinaldo Arenas’s influence as public pedagogue, mentor, and social activist whose teaching on resistance to normative ideologies resonates in societies past, present, and future. This book presents the Cuban writer’s poetry, novels, and plays as a curriculum of dissidence that provides models for socially engaged intellectual activism.
Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba
Authors: Takkara K. Brunson
Language: English
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Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance
Performing the Entangled Histories of Cuba and West Africa
Authors: Jill Flanders Crosby and JT Torres
Language: English
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Cuba’s Digital Revolution
Citizen Innovation and State Policy
Authors: Edited by Ted A. Henken and Sara Garcia Santamaria
Language: English
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Afro-Latinx Digital Connections
Authors: Edited by Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar
Language: English
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Teaching Haiti
Strategies for Creating New Narratives
Authors: Edited by Cécile Accilien and Valérie K. Orlando
Language: English
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Rómulo Betancourt
His Historical Personality and the Genesis of Modern Democracy in Venezuela
Authors: Germán Carrera Damas; Translated by Elizabeth Lowe
Language: English
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Toward a Global History of Latin America’s Revolutionary Left
Authors: Edited by Tanya Harmer and Alberto Martín Álvarez
Language: English
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Picturing Cuba
Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora
Authors: Edited by Jorge Duany
Language: English
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