Puerto Rico’s colonial status made its debt crisis inevitable. Review: Promise Land: The Inside Story of the Puerto Rico Debt Crisis, David Skeel, 2026, Paul Dry Books
Categories: Caribbean, Puerto Rico, United States
Forgotten island
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Category: North America
Reviews from the North American countries
Invisible encounter
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A study of racial politics mounts a challenge to area studies. Review: Transpacific Nonencounters: Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico, Andrea Mendoza, 2026, Duke University Press
Revolutionary tales unearthed
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Mexican and Cuban stories translated by Langston Hughes make a radical debut. Review: Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba as Translated by Langston Hughes, ed. Ricardo A Wilson, 2026, Princeton University Press
Categories: Cuba, Mexico, United States
Back to México bronco
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An old US predilection for finger-pointing underpins a new study of its neighbour. Review: The Making of Mexico: Revolution, Reform, and Transformation, Pamela K Starr, 2026, Polity Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Birth of the Latino
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Puerto Ricans offer lessons for Latin Americans in the UK seeking recognition. Review: White, Black, Brown: Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago, Michael Staudenmaier, 2026, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Caribbean, Puerto Rico, United States
Gangster imperialism
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The female currency of Conquest
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A new novel traces the lives of the Aztec emperor’s forgotten daughters. Review: The Other Moctezuma Girls, Sofia Robleda, 2026, Amazon Crossing
Categories: Mexico
The invention of traditional medicine
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Mexico’s ‘barefoot doctors’ became a means of indigenous integration. Review: The Power to Harm and Heal: Intercultural Medicine in Modern Mexico, Joshua Mentanko, 2026, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Mexico
Migrants or animals?
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Racialised border control has its origins in US efforts to prevent animal diseases. Review: Deadly Divide: How Insects, Pathogens, and People Defied the US-Mexico Border, Mary E Mendoza, 2026, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Mexico, United States
Reproductive resistance
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Judiciaries have shaped how abortion has risen up the agenda. Review: The Judicial Politics of Abortion in Latin America: Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico, Jordi Díez, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico