Use code 31HHM25 for discount prices through October 15. Havana Hardball: Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban LeagueCésar BriosoRelive the tumultuous preseason before Robinson broke the color barrier. “This book chronicles baseball history at its best, covering an important chapter in U.S.–Cuba social history.”—Library Journal “Conjures a colorful era of baseball that predated big-money sports.”—Foreign Affairs … Continue reading Books for Hispanic Heritage Month 2025
Queer Genealogies in Dominican Literature and Culture
“Provides a nuanced and comprehensive analysis of the evolution of LGBTQ+ identity and politics in the Dominican Republic.”—Danny Méndez, author of Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature “Horn brings literary and theatrical voices to bear on the question of LGBTQ/TT+ genealogies, and in so doing she traces queer representations from the Trujillo period to the … Continue reading Queer Genealogies in Dominican Literature and Culture
Fathers, Masculinity, and Authoritarianism in Latin American Cinema
“Excellent, timely, and fascinating. Dzero adeptly places films into dialogue with novels, television series, and paintings to enumerate and explain different tropes of authoritarian masculinity.”—Jonathan Risner, author of Blood Circuits: Contemporary Argentine Horror Cinema “Dzero deftly ties in dictatorships of the Cold War era with the contemporary moment, tracing an original connective thread between the past … Continue reading Fathers, Masculinity, and Authoritarianism in Latin American Cinema
Modern Art in 1940s Cuba
“The introduction of critical discourse and the role of the critics and writers of the time distinguishes this study from others that focus on the art and artist only. The inclusion of historic archival material enhances each artist’s practice, including descriptions and illustrations of key works.”—Carol Damian, author of The Virgin of the Andes: Art and … Continue reading Modern Art in 1940s Cuba
Cuba’s Cosmopolitan Enclaves
“An exemplary transnational history distinguished by its simultaneous treatment of multiple and diverse sociological actors in their complex sociopolitical engagements, working-class alliances, and pan-African solidarities. Combining a variety of archival and bibliographic sources, Sullivan skillfully uses an agro-industrial epicenter in northeastern Cuba as the springboard for important regional, hemispheric, and Atlantic connections.”—Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres, author … Continue reading Cuba’s Cosmopolitan Enclaves
The Environment in Brazilian Culture
“A timely contribution to the environmental humanities field as well as a wonderful overview of Brazilian cultural production.”—Carolina Sá Carvalho, author of Traces of the Unseen: Photography, Violence, and Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Latin America “Makes an important contribution to our understanding of how the environment and environmental crises are represented in Brazilian culture. The book’s breadth … Continue reading The Environment in Brazilian Culture
Sex and Love in Porfirian Mexico City
“Matthews reconstructs a vibrant world of working-class Mexicans as they built their personal sexual relationships and negotiated state power. Their stories are rich and reveal intimate motivations, offering a window into the formation of Mexico City’s unique working-class culture at the dawn of the twentieth century.”—James A. Garza, author of The Imagined Underworld: Sex, Crime, and … Continue reading Sex and Love in Porfirian Mexico City
Historic Sugar Mills in Santo Domingo
Distributed by University Press of Florida on behalf of the Brian Canin Urban Design AwardColonial sugar mills, ingenios coloniales, are essential to the material history of the Dominican Republic. They served as a cornerstone of the national economy and as a foundation for the stability required during the colonial era. From the 1500s to the end … Continue reading Historic Sugar Mills in Santo Domingo
Alive in Their Garden
"This is the book I wish I’d had on hand as I was writing In the Time of the Butterflies.”—From the introduction by Julia Alvarez “This translation offers an important contribution to the study of dictatorship, both in the Dominican Republic and beyond, but also to our understanding of bearing witness to tragedy, the challenges … Continue reading Alive in Their Garden
Periodicals in Latin America
“An important step toward defining (and expanding) the field of Latin American periodical studies, this book helps by modeling diverse points of entry into a broad array of publications.”—Lori Cole, author of Surveying the Avant-Garde: Questions on Modernism, Art, and the Americas in Transatlantic Magazines The first volume in English to focus on Latin American … Continue reading Periodicals in Latin America
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