University Press of Florida Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Publication Announcement

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

University Press of Florida African American Studies, Literature & Literary Criticism, Publication Announcement

Oshun, Lemonade, and Intertextuality

“The ability to map Oshun across the Afro-Atlantic world to tease out her vital iconic significance, in literary, cultural, religious, and political terrains, makes for a priceless book.”—Niyi Afolabi, author of Relocating the Sacred: African Divinities and Brazilian Cultural Hybridities  In this book, Sheneese Thompson analyzes works of film and literature to explore how Afro-Atlantic religion … Continue reading Oshun, Lemonade, and Intertextuality

University Press of Florida History, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Publication Announcement

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

University Press of Florida African American Studies, History, Publication Announcement

Futures of Black Power

“Showcases cutting-edge scholarship on Black Power and archives that will be critical as the historiography of Black Power only expands in the years to come.”—Robert Greene II, coeditor of Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina   “A provocative, futuristic view of the study of Black Power and its key … Continue reading Futures of Black Power

University Press of Florida History, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Publication Announcement

Black Freedom and Education in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

“Otheguy’s insightful analysis is engaging and persuasive; it represents an original and significant contribution to the scholarship on the history of education. This book offers important context for understanding how pivotal moments in education shaped Cuban history, especially amid the transition from slavery to freedom.”—Kabria Baumgartner, author of In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and … Continue reading Black Freedom and Education in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

University Press of Florida African American Studies, History, Literature & Literary Criticism, Publication Announcement

Black Prison Intellectuals

“Stone transforms our understanding of the prisoner as intellectuals and thought leaders.”—Jodi Schorb, author of Reading Prisoners: Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700–1845   “Provides a bracing history of the criminalization of Black people while underscoring the strong connections between Black incarceration and the development of Black thought and knowledge.”—Robert S. Levine, author … Continue reading Black Prison Intellectuals

University Press of Florida Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Publication Announcement

Digital Satire in Latin America

“In this fascinating transnational project, Alonso writes the next chapter in satire studies. He introduces us to the digital natives across Latin America who are reworking satire for the post-TV era. Rich in local context, each of Alonso’s penetrating case studies explores the contours of new forms of DIY satire and examines the provocative ways … Continue reading Digital Satire in Latin America

University Press of Florida African American Studies, History, Publication Announcement

Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt

“Aiello’s microhistory of peonage and convict labor in south Georgia shows how integral bound Black labor was to white supremacy in this corner of the postbellum South. No one else has shown how deeply entangled the illegal system of peonage was with a state-sanctioned carceral regime of forced labor.”—Alex Lichtenstein, coauthor of Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: … Continue reading Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt

University Press of Florida Literature & Literary Criticism, Publication Announcement

Tears and Flowers

“These poems collectively constitute a vivid Rivera-esque mural of the place, time, and people in which and among whom they were written, bringing an early twentieth-century period in the history of Key West vividly to life.”—Esther Allen, translator of Antonio Di Benedetto’s Zama   “Offers readers an intimate glimpse into the life and work of a … Continue reading Tears and Flowers