Mexico’s cynical state is often the source of crime, not its scourge. Call the Mothers: Searching for Mexico’s Disappeared in the War on Drugs, Shaylih Muehlmann, 2024, University of California Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
Category: North America
Reviews from the North American countries
Alone but not home
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Many child migrants in the US are destined for the underclass. Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in The United States, Stephanie L Canizales, 2024, University of California Press
Categories: Central America, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, North America, United States
Mexico’s Soviet kiss
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A telenovela was shaping global culture before neoliberalism spoiled the party. Romancing Yesenia: How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture, Masha Salazkina, 2024, University of California Press
Categories: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, North America, South America, United States
Taking back the truth
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US meddling in Venezuela has never been in support of ‘democracy’. Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire, Anya Parampil, 2024, OR Books
Categories: North America, South America, United States, Venezuela
Rule of lore
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Mexico’s state has abandoned public security to the myth of a moral crisis. Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico, Claudio Lomnitz, 2024, Duke University Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Anti-art with attitude
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Central American artists are defying their colonial invisibility. Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America, Kency Cornejo, 2024, Duke University Press
Categories: Central America, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, North America, United States
The gay class
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A scholar places social class at the core of queer studies. The Struggle to be Gay—in Mexico, For Example, Roger N Lancaster, 2023, University of California Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
The human frontier
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The causes of the US border crisis can be found in America itself. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, Jonathan Blitzer, 2024, Picador
Categories: Central America, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, United States
Graphic realities
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Comic art reflects Latin America’s perennially contested landscape. Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame, James Scorer, 2024, University of Texas Press
Categories: Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, North America, Peru, South America, Uruguay
Search for the unattainable
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A Welsh poet’s journeys in Latin America reveal the voyage we are all undertaking. Ambassador of Nowhere: A Latin American Pilgrimage, Richard Gwyn, 2024, Seren
Categories: Argentina, Central America, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, South America